It was a pretty boring day at the office today until I got this email from Ed in accounting. The email he sent me didn't have a subject heading, and when I opened it up I knew why.
The body of the email read "open carefully" and there was jpeg file attached. After scanning the perimeter of my cubicle to make sure nobody was looking, I clicked to open the file.
It was a picture of 8 topless babes wearing Santa hats on the beach above the words "Merry Christmas."
Seems innocuous enough, right? Well, maybe you haven't been in the working world lately, because "Merry Christmas" is a phrase that's increasingly off-limits.
Now, nobody's actually told me wishing someone a "Merry Christmas" is now unacceptable, but look around and you'll get the idea. Heck, I remember only 5 years ago we had an office "Christmas Party." Now, it's a "Holiday Party." Of course, all the advertisements on TV and at the mall say "Happy Holidays" too.
Not all that long ago, my office mates and I used to be able to send each other pictures of topless babes in Santa hats and the words "Merry Christmas" without thinking twice about it. Now most of the topless-babe-with Santa-hat pictures I get say "Happy Holidays." Why are we dumbing-down Christmas like this? 95% of this country of ours is Christian. Shouldn't we be able to send and receive topless-babe-with-Santa-hat pics to each other that say "Merry Christmas" without fear of offending merely 5% of the country?
For the vast majority of us Americans, Jesus is the Reason for the Season. Christmas celebrates His birth and the beginning of humanity's redemption. Don't I have the right to send and receive topless-babe-in-Santa-hat pics that reflect my deeply held religious faith. This is America - where religious freedom is supposed to be guaranteed! It's like everything is all backwards now, and Christmas, AND CHRISTIANS ARE UNDER ATTACK!
I would post a link to a "Merry Christmas" topless-babe-with-Santa-hat pic for everybody to see, but I'm afraid the Daily Kos Secular-Humanist Gestapo would probably troll-rate me out of here.
Anyway, I hope I made at least some people around here think about this a little bit.
Season's Greetings.
