On the "War on Christmas"

Once again the puppets of Rupert Murdoch are wailing about a "war on Christmas." It seems that it's suddenly politically incorrect to say "Happy Holidays."

Let's look at this. It was around 70 years ago that the song, "Happy Holidays" came out (theme from Holiday Inn which premiered the song, "White Christmas"). It was around 40 years ago that Andy Williams recorded a song that begins, "It's the holiday season." Yet it's just been in the last few years people have started to take offense.

Now, we have Thanksgiving in late November and a month or so later Christmas. A week after that we have New Year's. In among all that we have Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Now what kind of days are these? They're called "holidays."

So now do we have to go around saying, "Happy ThanksgivinghanukkahKwanzaannewyear and Merry Christmas"? What is wrong with the wish to express Christian good will by wishing your neighbors well during more than one holiday at a time?

And why do they take the season of celebration of the birth of the Prince of Peace and make it into a time of creating an artificial reason for strife? After all this is an overwhelmingly Christian nation. Even the Congress says so. The spineless Congress that can't stand up to the most unpopular president ever and carry out the will of the majority of the American population could pass a resolution affirming Christianity as the majority religion of this country. Schools are closed on Christmas, government offices are closed on Christmas, and even stores are closed on Christmas.

So creating an artificial and non-existent "war on Christmas" must indicate some underlying motive. What could that be?

First, it could be a distraction from the commercialization of the season about which many of us have been complaining for at least 40 years. I don't think I need to say anything more about that, because everyone has heard everything there is to say about that.

Second, it could be a distraction from the war on the Sabbath that the corporate masters of these mouthpieces carry out all through the year. People buying and selling on the Sabbath, which the Bible condemns, is a staple of the American way of life the way it has evolved over the past 50 years. So to keep people from looking too closely at that they say, instead, "Look over there!" So they invent a controversy over wishing your neighbors well for a cluster of holidays at once.

Pay attention.