Since ash is posting during 'tis the season, she figured this would aptly represent her sentiments. It's also a classic demonstration of everything objectionable about the conservative mindset:
• Merry Christmas and God bless America
For the 80th time, I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Not a Happy Holiday, but a very Merry Christmas.
The great United States of America was founded on Christianity. From the beginning, we have had God in our hearts, our homes, our schools and our churches. That should never have changed.
I always respected the Jews who never caused us any grief over our worshiping God. They respected our beliefs and we respected theirs. They had their synagogues and we had our churches.
I try to respect all who believe differently from me. In recent years, Eastern religions have wreaked havoc on our beliefs and those of other countries. Where is their respect for the beliefs of the country in which they are living? They could go back home.
I pray that our lawmakers will wake up and change our laws back to the way they were since our country was founded. It is wrong to ban God from the places he has always been. This is America.
Merry Christmas and God bless America.
V. June Greene, Springfield
As the granddaughter of four Russian/Jewish immigrants – so persecuted and isolated in their native communities they arrived in this country speaking not Russian but Yiddish – I must say the assertion that this is a “Christian nation” (and with such condescension toward the non-believers!) is as hurtful and offensive as it is untrue.
For the 80th time, “Happy Holidays” may be politically correct, whatever that means; it also happens to be inclusive. Look around you, liberal-conspiracy-to-eradicate-Christmas alarmists. Tributes to Christmas are everywhere, in every nook and cranny of American society. And as you proclaim this a Christian domain, may I offer myself as living proof of the fact that my grandparents were not turned away at Ellis Island because of their ethnicity or faith.
Indeed, “The War on Christmas” is an invention of Bill O’Reilly, John Gibson, and other FOX News anchors cynically designed to lure more viewers to its channel. That it seems to be working is exasperating. After all, when God gave us brains, He expected us to think for ourselves.