Posted in Current Events

Have you heard the latest chatter regarding the sales campaigns of the major retailers this year?  After such a ruckus was made last year, Christians spoke up again this year and they made themselves heard.  It seems many major chains are going back to the use of the word "Christmas" in their campaigns.  I am glad, because I like hearing Merry Christmas.  However, as I have said before, if a store is also embracing other holidays, I accept that as well.  However, when a store deliberately alienates Christmas, that's when I have issues.

With the vast majority of American households buying for and celebrating Christmas, whether lead by religious beliefs or not, it seems very bold for a company to speak out specifically against Christmas.  What I am tired of political correctness for everyone BUT Christians!  Crate & Barrel did just this, it seems.  (Read more here)  Yet there is more to this story.

I don't have a link to the actual, but today I heard Bill O'Reilly discussing a case that is slated to go before the Supreme Court regarding Religious symbols in schools.  If I heard right, Christian parents asked for a picture of the birth of Jesus to be displayed to reflect Christmas.  The school is clamouring no religion here!  However the school allows displays of Menorahs and the Star of Ramadon.  Aren't those religious symbols of specific religious holidays?  I wasn't following.

Figuring it was Monday, I let it go and listened while pulling into my driveway.  Bill said the most simple thing.  Those holidays that are allowed to be represented in the schools are religious holidays.  Christmas is a Federal holiday.  Never thought of that vantage point.  So tell me, why is it that schools can't show pictures in observance of a Federal holiday that is in place to honor the birth of Jesus?  Maybe the people who are getting paid Christmas leave, would be willing to show up for work on those days?  In addition, the fact that this is going before the Supreme Court demonstrates the very lack of respect that those in places of authority and models for our children are displaying for our country, its heritage, and the blood shed by so many for the freedom we enjoy. 

Please, keep your children home.  Teach them in the admonition of the Lord, as it should be. 

These are my thoughts.