Do You Prefer To Say: "Merry Christmas"?, "Workers Of The World Unite?" Or "Allah Akbar"?

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The Jewish Case For "Merry Christmas" (Don Feder Says Believe It Or
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You may find the title confusing. After all, religious Jews don't
celebrate Christmas. So why should a Jew care if a store clerk says
"Merry Christmas?" Why should the public disappearance of Christmas
matter to the Jewish people?

Patience. All will be explained in due course.

In the meantime, 'tis the season to be politically correct - a
coast-to-coast harkening-free zone and the tyranny of
hyper-sensitivity.

The increasingly successful effort to purge Christmas from our culture
(correctly called the War on Christmas) proceeds apace - municipal
Christmas trees are re-christened (no pun intended) "holiday
trees," schools ban Christmas decorations and the singing of
Christmas carols during holiday programs. Christmas - excuse me --
holiday parades are excluding Santa Claus, and, everywhere, stores
(which derive 20% of their annual revenue from Christmas sales) are in
Grinch overdrive.

This year, Lowe's employees are permitted to say "Merry
Christmas," but only in response to a customer initiating the
greeting. On its website, Barnes & Noble offers a "Gift Guide"
which includes "Holiday gift baskets," "holiday sleds" and
"holiday delivery." FYI, the "holiday" celebrated by 95% of the
American people at this time of the year is called Christmas.

The Best Buy website offers "unique gifts for the season."
According to Liberty Counsel (a Christian legal action group), a
company spokesman claims the use of the word "Christmas" is
disrespectful. Disrespectful to who? The 5% of the American people who
don't celebrate Christmas? But how many of them actually care? (For
years, people said "Merry Christmas" to me, without inflicting
severe emotional harm.) Would it be disrespectful for a clerk in Tel
Aviv to wish someone a "Happy Hanukkah"?

Eddie Bauer's customer service department doesn't acknowledge
Christmas because, says a spokesman, the retailer doesn't "want to
offend Jews, those who celebrate Kwanza, and those who have no
religious preference." And what about the Christians whose holiday is
intentionally ignored? The retail giant isn't concerned about
offending them.

The no-religious-preference crowd, who nonetheless are into decking the
halls, will be relieved to learn that, once again this year, K-Mart is
selling "Holiday trees" - under which "holiday presents" may
be placed and around which the family can gather on holiday eve to sing
"um-um-um, um-um, um-um-um um" - until that too is banned as
somehow disrespectful.

The refusal of retailers to wish 95% of the American people a "Merry
Christmas," is but a seasonal manifestation of the secularist jihad.

But the unholy war is most apparent at this time of the year:

The City of Chicago pressured organizers of the annual Cristkindlmarket
(literally: Christ candle market) to drop New Line Cinema as a
co-sponsor. The studio was going to show clips from its just-released
film "The Nativity Story," at its booth. A city official determined
it would be terribly "insensitive to the many people of the many
faiths who come to enjoy the market for its good and unique gifts" to
encounter a booth showing clips from a movie about Jesus - at a
Christmas fair. Might spoil their shopping experience, don't you
know. (And if someone went to a Hanukah party they might - oh no! -
see a menorah. And wouldn't that be just too awful for words.) By the
by, Chicago always gives a warm municipal welcome to the annual Gay
Pride Week (including "Mr. Leather"). Again, religious people
apparently have no sensibilities. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to
review a lower court ruling that New York public schools can refuse to
display creches at Christmas, while putting up menorahs at Hanukah and
crescents at Ramadan. Celebrating minority religions is cool,
multicultural and sensitive. Acknowledging the religion of the
overwhelming majority is callous, not inclusive - hence, un-cool.
There's an ongoing game of pc one-upsmanship. Employee "holiday
parties" are no longer permitted at the University of Colorado.
(Christmas parties were ditched last year.) Obsessive administrators
decided that during a holiday party someone might be thinking about
that holiday which is the focus of the season. Henceforth, the school
will have "staff appreciation parties" or "good-will functions"
-- as long as the good will referenced in no way relates to (you, know)
peace on earth, good will toward men.

The War on Christmas is one front in the War on Christianity -- which
itself is part of the War on Religion and religious-based values.

The same ideologues who want to take Christmas out of Christmas, also
want to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance, "In God We Trust"
off our currency and bibles out of presidential inaugurations. They
want to pretend that the Ten Commandments had no more to do with the
founding of this country than the Koran, The Humanist Manifesto II or
"The Earth In Balance."

The foregoing should matter to Jews principally for two reasons:

The religious Jew's mission is to spread God-based morality.

This has been true since the time of Abraham. God expects Jews to
spread knowledge of Him and his commandments. We are told to stand
against a morality of convenience. (We are expected not to change with
the times, but to change the times - as we did in the ancient Near
East.) Judaism was the first religion to embrace a universal moral code
- one for all people, at all times, in all places.

Just as in the 19th century most American Jews opposed slavery and in
the early 20th century, Jewish reformers supported child-labor laws,
today, morality-from-Sinai requires us to support the family and oppose
sexual license and the destruction of innocent human life (including
abortion-on-demand, cloning to kill and euthanasia).

Serious Christians - whose morality comes from our Bible -
recognize the same ethical injunctions. That's why they're under
relentless attack by the cultural elite. The secular Left wants to
extinguish God-based morality. The only way to do that is to drive
Christianity underground. Hence, the War on Christianity. Hence, the
War on Christmas.

How well the Left has done its work of deconstructing marriage, the
American family and traditional morality may be seen in three
statistics. In the 1930s, married couples comprised 84% all households.
Today, the figure is just under 50%. Since 2000, the number of
cohabitating couples increased by 14%.

That's why, Jews -- as Jews -- must oppose revisionist efforts to
deny our nation's Christian heritage, must stand against the drive to
decouple our laws from Judeo-Christian ethics and must counter attacks
on public expressions of the religion of most Americans -
Christianity.

Jews are safer in a Christian America than in a secular America (or
Europe).

Look at the fate of Jews in post-Christian Europe.

Stephen Steinlight, former director of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, says
there are an average of 12 assaults a day on Parisian Jews -
comparable to Nazi attacks on Jews in the dying days of the Weimar
Republic. In recent years, synagogues, Jewish day schools and kosher
restaurants have been targeted by Europeans of the jihad persuasion.

In a commentary in the October 17th Jerusalem Post, David Meyer (a
French-born rabbi serving a synagogue in Brussels) writes: "I am
frightened not just by the anti-Semitism (resurgent in Europe) but by
the collective European response of indifference and appeasement.
Today, Europe worships compromise. It is 'fanatical' in its
non-violence. It is a Europe that, in the face of Islamist fanaticism,
is ready to stay silent."

Nature abhors a spiritual vacuum. In a Europe where churches are empty,
mosques are filling and new ones are being built every day.

Muslims are having children, while child-like Europeans embrace
childless lifestyles. If Christianity fails on the Continent, it
won't be replaced by secular nothingness, but by a creed that both
Jews and Christians should fear.

It's no surprise that the nation with the highest church attendance
in the industrialized world (30% to 40%) is the strongest in its
support for Israel. In general, support for Israel in the U.S.
population can be predicted by frequency of church attendance, with
Evangelicals, -- whose faith is deep-rooted -- most devoted to the
Jewish state.

And, please don't tell me about the Spanish Inquisition and the
expulsions of 1492. That was half a millennium ago. The principal
threats to Jews in the mid-20th century were creeds which which sought
to replace God with secular ideologies, based on evolutionary race
theory or a maniacal class consciousness.

While Christmas isn't part of my religion, I'm all for public
acknowledgements of a religious holiday celebrated by 95% of the
American people.

What's the alternative -- an America dominated by the twisted
theories of Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, Michael Moore and George
Clooney? Instead of the red and green of Christmas, how about an
America where burka black is the dominant color?

So, what do you prefer to say: "Merry Christmas"? "Workers of the
world unite?" Or "Allah Akbar"?

I prefer to say, "**** off and die, Strumpet."

I second that

"John Baker" a écrit dans le message de news:
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I prefer to say, "**** off and die, Strumpet."