Its almost Christmas and we are under attack. In fact, we have been for the past 2 weeks and many of us haven't realized it. Kid Oakland pointed out in his excellent dairy
A Christmas Message that the hot topic in the media has been "Putting Christ back into Christmas". He then presented an in depth analysis of how Christ was actually a liberal.
I completely agree, but there is a much larger issue that needs to be addressed. This topic of "Putting Christ back into Christmas" that is being repeated nightly in the media is NOT ABOUT CHRIST OR CHRISTMAS. These are the same old Culture War issues repackaged neatly for Christmas. It is a coordinated political attack on us -- "those politically correct, secular liberals who have no common sense". It is an effective attack too, because Americans love Christmas -- the joyous, loving and generous time of year. They make us out to be the grinches against Christmas and looking to oppress Christianity. The worst part is that we are allowing this branding to occur.
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Media Matters has excerpts from Falwell's December 19 televised sermon, broadcast from his Thomas Road Baptist Church. It pretty much sums up the attack:
When we began the Christmas season this year, we were all very much aware that a war was being waged by the Christmas grinches -- the American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU], Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and other secularists, to steal Christmas from America. To not only take Christ out of Christmas, but to remove Christmas totally from the American scene. I am happy to announce today that we are winning the Christmas war.
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Well, the fact is that lawyers today, over 3,000 of them in America -- Christian lawyers, constitution, conservative lawyers -- have offered their services at no charge, pro bono, to certain groups of constitution firms to do war with the ACLU, with the secularists, with Americans United, and all who hate Christ and want to drive God from the public square.
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Imagine God raising up an army of attorneys, far more than the ACLU has, to stand up for religious freedom in America. This is a positive thing. It's an encouraging thing. Why do we always have to be on the defense? We have declared war on the left, and we're going to sue the hide off of everybody, everybody, who tries to inhibit the liberties of our children and our families from worshipping and honoring the Lord, as we in America are constitutionally allowed to do.
You read it here first. They are winning the Christmas War.
Its a war and we are, by default, the enemies. They paint a black and white picture. Christian Conservatives vs. Secularist Liberals. Of course they do not acknowledge that there are other religions or liberal Christians. In order for their repression frame to be successful, they need to present Liberals as being against Christians, when the truth is that we are for equality and freedom of ALL religions.
This is not about defending Christmas to the majority of the conservative talking heads who are promoting this story every night on TV. This is about attacking and continuing to turn the nation against the left. They aim to show how "out of touch" we are with America.
They have already branded us as unpatriotic by claiming the flag as their own. Now they will brand us anti-Christian by claiming Christmas.