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Jon Stewart of the Daily Show was making fun of the FOX News
Network and all their right wing talking heads about inventing another WAR ON
CHRISTMAS to garner more viewers.
FOX was making a big deal out of a governor calling the
decorated tree of the season as the HOLIDAY
TREE instead of a CHRISTMAS TREE as in “taking Christ out of Christmas.” What the idiots at Fox did not know is that
every governor in that state (Republican and Democrat) has always called the
tree a holiday tree; its tradition so quit manufacturing news to get higher
ratings.
Every year we hear the same ole’ crap about people taking
Christ out of Christmas and every year I have to respond by saying Christ was
never in the holiday celebrating the WINTER SOLSTICE (December 21 this year) which
has been celebrated for thousands of years BEFORE Christianity was even
invented.
The Winter Solstice, if you don’t know, is the time of year
that has the longest night and the shortest day. The day after the Solstice,
the nights gets shorter and the days get longer or a NEW YEAR is born and
therefore it is a time of celebration.
Christians could not stand letting pagans celebrate their
pagan but “natural” as in celebrations of occurrences in nature, go on without
changing the reasons for the celebrating to something Christian and so they
invented CHRISTMAS as the time Jesus was born and supplanting the initial reason
for celebration.
Historians will tell you that nobody knows when Jesus was
born and they are nearly certain, He was not born in Bethlehem
My point is simple; many people of various religions and cultures
celebrate, at this time of year, for their own specific reasons but we all do
share in the natural celebration of a New Year, so let me just say to0 those
Christians who, through ignorance I am sure, think that this holiday time of
year usually referred to as Christmas, is somehow THEIR holiday alone; IT IS
NOT so quit the griping!
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