Today I received e-mail from my son\u2019s high school involving a fundraiser for the marching band. Normally I wouldn\u2019t admit this but my son was in the marching band last year and I am still on their mailing list.
\nWhen my son was born I put a baseball glove on his hand and fantasized about his professional career as an athlete. Little did I know that one day he would be on the football field not catching a pass but playing drums in a uniform that not only doesn\u2019t involve a helmet, but has a hat that essentially tells everyone he comes across that he would like to be beaten up.
\nActually I am joking of course. My son is a very talented drummer and I am extremely proud of his gift and his nerdiness. Nerds rule now and I want him to succeed in his God given giftedness.
\nThe real reason I am writing this is that the e-mail I mentioned earlier said that they were selling \u201c Holiday Trees\u201d and we better get our order in fast! So I did. I immediately responded and said this..
\n\u201dExcuse me? Holiday trees? Do you mean Christmas trees? Please explain! Brad Stine\u201d
\nFunny, no matter how hard I searched the Internet I couldn\u2019t find ANY reference to a tree being used in December to celebrate Hanukkah, Ramadan, Kwanza or winter solstice. You know why?
\nBECAUSE IT\u2019S A CHRISTMAS TREE!!!!
\nListen if you want to make MONEY off of my religious tradition, the least that can be expected is to dignify it by using it by its name. Either avoid all of what has become representative of Christmas elements like, trees, lights, tinsel, garland, gifts, wreaths, Santa, mistletoe, angels, candy canes, sleigh\u2019s, jingling bells, caroling, ribbons and bows, and find your OWN STUFF TO HAWK or call it by its rightful name!
\nHow we have reached a point where blatant disregard for the constitutional rights of Christians within the public sphere is so egregious and consistent that it amounts to bullying and extortion I don\u2019t know?
\nMaybe we need a test to see what the Country would look like without Christmas?
\nI would love to propose a Christmas free society next year. Let\u2019s let the atheist have December all to ourselves shall we? We must not buy 1 Christmas gift for anyone next year but instead give all we had planned on spending to a Christian charity. There must be no Christmas parades, no Christmas music on the radio, no Christmas tree lighting. No communities putting lights out on their homes and neighborhoods.
\nThere can be no vacations for the kids and no paid days off for government workers. Lets let the atheists and the leftist anti-Christian bigots have what they deserve, a dark, and cold, meaningless, joyless, bunch of nothing. Lets let the Country see what atheism leaves a culture with, Handel\u2019s Messiah? No, a crucifix in a jar of urine while they worship Barack Obama who Jamie Fox deemed \u201cOur Lord and Savior\u201d on a national awards show on television.
\nChristmas is a gift and if people don\u2019t want it maybe we need to get it in the hands of those that do. Of course what makes it so beautiful is that when Jesus was given as a gift for humanity, he was spit upon. Never the less He allowed Himself to be abused by the unappreciative in order to give them something greater that they could afford.
\nSo even though my nature wants to withhold it, and give the people what they deserve, my God asks that I would continue to give it away knowing full well that many will abuse it.
\nThis is what Christianity is, and it\u2019s also why I\u2019m so bad at it. I wish you all a wonderful Advent season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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