{"id":552,"date":"2009-12-21T02:25:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T06:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/lets-say-merry-christmas-and-forget-about-political-correctness\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T02:25:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T06:25:24","slug":"lets-say-merry-christmas-and-forget-about-political-correctness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/lets-say-merry-christmas-and-forget-about-political-correctness\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Say &#8220;Merry Christmas!&#8221; and Forget About Political Correctness!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><strong>The minority are so busy worrying about the rights of Illegal aliens, criminals, atheists and other non Christians who would take away the rights of the Judeo-Christianity upon which are country is founded that political correctness now reigns. When will we as Christians stand up for ourselves and keep &#8220;In God We Trust,&#8221; Christmas manger scenes, and all our other traditions.&nbsp; I do not wish to trample on anyone&#8217;s religious beliefs or the right to practice them, but I certainly believe that Christ is the reason for Christmas and I will tell the world with pride &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; and good will to all men of every creed. I will as always be wishing everyone a Merry Christmas which is my way of celebrating the birth of Christ Who is the Reason for Christmas.<\/strong><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><strong>So, I am asking if you agree with me, please cut and paste this and pass it on to your email friends so that perhaps we can <\/strong><\/font><font size=\"3\"><strong>prevent one more <\/strong><\/font><font size=\"3\"><strong>American tradition from being lost in the sea of <\/strong><\/font><font size=\"3\"><strong>&#8220;Political Correctness.&#8221;&nbsp; I have had it with &#8220;Political Correctness!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#590170\" size=\"3\"><strong>Ben Stein has also had it with Political Correctness.&nbsp; The following, a must read, was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS<br \/>Sunday Morning Commentary. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ec0000\"><\/font><font size=\"3\"><strong>My confession:<br \/>I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don&#8217;t feel threatened. I <br \/>don&#8217;t feel discriminated against. That&#8217;s what they are, Christmas&nbsp; <br \/>trees. It doesn&#8217;t&nbsp; bother me a bit when people say, &#8216;Merry Christmas&#8217; to me. I don&#8217;t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me <br \/>in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It&nbsp; shows that we are all brothers <\/strong><\/font><font size=\"3\"><strong>and&nbsp; sisters celebrating this happy time of year.. It doesn&#8217;t bother me at&nbsp; all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my&nbsp; beach house in Malibu. If people want a cr\u00e8che, it&#8217;s just as fine&nbsp; with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ec0000\" size=\"3\"><strong>I<\/strong><\/font><font color=\"#ec0000\" size=\"3\"><strong> don&#8217;t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don&#8217;t think&nbsp; Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think<br \/>people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed <br \/>around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, <br \/>that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can&#8217;t find it in the <br \/>Constitution and I don&#8217;t like it being shoved down my throat.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ec0000\" size=\"3\"><strong>Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from <br \/>that&nbsp; we should worship celebrities and we aren&#8217;t allowed to <br \/>worship God as we understand Him I guess that&#8217;s a sign that <br \/>I&#8217;m&nbsp; getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering <br \/>where&nbsp; these celebrities came from and where the America <br \/>we knew went to.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ec0000\" size=\"3\"><strong>In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it&#8217;s not funny, it&#8217;s intended to get you thinking. Billy Graham&#8217;s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her &#8216;How could God let something like this happen&#8217; (regarding Hurricane <br \/>Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and <br \/>insightful response. She said, &#8216;I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we&#8217;ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?&#8217;<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ec0000\" size=\"3\"><strong>In light of recent events&#8230; terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I<br \/>think it started when Madeleine Murray O&#8217;Hare (she was murdered, <br \/>her body found a few years ago) complained she didn&#8217;t want <br \/>prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you <br \/>better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK. Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we&nbsp; shouldn&#8217;t spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock&#8217;s son committed suicide). We said an expert&nbsp; should know what he&#8217;s talking about. And we said okay.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ec0000\" size=\"3\"><strong>Now we&#8217;re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don&#8217;t know right from wrong, and why it doesn&#8217;t bother <br \/>them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.<br \/>Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. <\/strong><\/font><font color=\"#ec0000\" size=\"3\"><strong>I&nbsp; think it has a great deal to do with &#8216;WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.&#8217;<br \/>Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world&#8217;s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the <br \/>newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send &#8216;jokes&#8217; through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ec0000\" size=\"3\"><strong>Are you laughing yet? <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ec0000\" size=\"3\"><strong>Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to <br \/>many on your address list because you&#8217;re not sure what they <br \/>believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ec0000\" size=\"3\"><strong>Funny how we can be more worried about what other people <br \/>think of us than what God thinks of us. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ec0000\" size=\"3\"><strong>Pass it on if you think it has merit.<br \/>If not, then just discard it&#8230; no one will know you did. But, if you <br \/>discard&nbsp; this thought process, don&#8217;t sit back and complain about <br \/>what bad&nbsp; shape the world is in. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ec0000\" size=\"3\"><strong>My Best Regards, <br \/>Honestly and respectfully,<br \/>Ben Stein&nbsp; <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The minority are so busy worrying about the rights of Illegal aliens, criminals, atheists and other non Christians who would take away the rights of the Judeo-Christianity upon which are country is founded that political correctness now reigns. 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