Merry Christmas!
I hope all of you are having a joyous Christmas with family and friends. Lisa, Ella, and I are enjoying a small rather quiet Christmas together (except that Grandma got Ella a 10th anniversary Tickle Me Elmo).
I will leave you with this quote from Tony Woodlief. I am not sure I would have put it this way, but I understand the sentiment and I did get a chuckle out of it:
I hope you all have a lovely Christmas. Notice that I didn't wish you a "happy holiday." I'm wishing you a wonderful celebration of the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was crucified, descended into hell, rose from death, and ascended into heaven, where he sits at the right hand of the Father, waiting until that blessed moment when he descends once again to separate the sheep from the goats, to slay the false prophets, and to judge the quick and the dead. So all of you politically correct, watered-down ecumenical types can bite me. And anyone who thinks the false prophets are just in the other religions can bite me too.Those of you who don't share my faith know I love you anyway. But it's Christmas time, and I hope you have a merry one. I also hope you consider that first Christmas gift, which was given to you too, whenever you choose to unwrap it. Merry Christmas.
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Kevin, I would have been more polite in my actual words, but our sentiments here remain the same as Tony's. Atheists and their secular allies can stuff their political games during Christmas.
One orthodox (and worth hearing) TV minister Dr. Charles Stanley has bluntly warned his congregation that atheist attacks on this sacred time will be met with counteroffensive(s). Here's a link to that sermon outline:
http://ww2.intouch.org/site/c.7nKFISNvEqG/b.2292657/k.7804/In_Touch_Ministries__Outline_The_War_on_Christmas__Dr_Charles_Stanley.htm
He calls on citizens, particularly Christians, to retake the Public Square. It is not a forbidden zone guarded by the secularists. It was not made by secularists; they are only marginally welcome in it.
My main reading these last few months has been in the Founding Fathers. They explicitly rejected the idea of attacks on Christianity, or specific sects thereof. Faith was to be freely practiced, subject to no higher authority from man.
They would react to today's secularists as John Adams did when hearing of the French Revolution:
(paraphrase)' one can expect little good from a nation of several million atheists.' He was right about the bloody Revolution and its Marxist progeny.
Atheism was a sin in most eyes of that time. It should be today, as well. Dr. Stanley's riposte to these aliens about policing the practice of faith in America: 'who says I can't sing carols in the schools, pray, or have a manger on the courthouse lawn?' Judge or lawyer, legislator or newsperson: WHO SAYS we can't?
This is our America. Our country, not ruled by those who say otherwise. He is counselling moral, daily, eventually legal and legislative challenge to THEIR (ominous term) rule.
The Stanley webaddress will not reproduce correctly.
If interested, please check InTouch Ministries, click on InTouch TV and click on the sermon for "The War Against Christmas"
Scripture: Matthew 2:1-20
Christmas is the happiest time of year for most people. But today, there is a war on Christmas. Many people want to remove Christ from the holiday and just wish us “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas."
Remarkable,
I agree with every word of it.