"Happy Holidays" My !

This post is occasioned by  three remonstrations against "Merry Christmas" by progressive tools in the last 36 hours--one of them from someone who brags on their membership in a Christian Denomination, yet will not stand for the uniqueness of Christianity--and being told that saying  "Merry Christmas" is racist against Islam. Stuff That!


I hadn't been very interested in the "Happy Holidays" vs "Merry Christmas" thing until this week.  Now I'm interested, entirely because of the actions and rudeness of progressives.  Entirely because of their rudeness.

Look, I don't really care if you, personally, celebrate Christmas or not--it's not any of my business.  But I'll tell everybody straight up--I celebrate Christmas!  It's a significant Solemnity for me--the third highest liturgical Feast in the Church.  It's where we celebrate, and confront on an intellectual and emotional level, the unique event where the Second person of the Trinity was born, in human flesh, taking our nature to his.  It's the celebration of an act of love so profound that it doesn't lend itself to intellectual understanding.  That God would take on human nature, to reconcile all things to himself.  That God would enter into our lives as one of us, to show us how to live, and to redeem us from the effects of our own choices.

I don't give a pickled rat about Saturnalia--it's an excuse for debauchery, drunkenness and license.  I wouldn't trade you a bucket of luke warm slime for Winter Solstice--it's an exercise in idolatry, worship creation rather than the creator.  I think celebrating Kwanza, an invented holiday whose supposedly African origin is fraudulent, perpetrated by a convicted felon and conman who was too racist to celebrate a holiday with white people is stupid.  In fact, the only other Holiday at this time of year I have any respect or sympathy for is Hanukkah, which celebrates events recounted in Scripture (the books of the Maccabees) tht highlight the special relationship between Israel and the Lord.  (And to all my Jewish friends, a Happy and Joyous Hanukkah!) 

Trying to get us all to say "happy holidays" is simply away to try and edit Christianity and Judaism out of the mainstream.  The wearisome tendency to list historical data as a way to discredit our Religious Festival is pathetic--every culture has historical antecedents, and areas of synthesis.  Trying to use this fact to dissolve part of our culture constitutes bigotry and violence.  We are told to wish everybody a happy holiday--sorry, no can do.  I don't wish anyone an unhappy day, ever, but this is a way to make me give at least a verbal blessing to Holidays that are inimical to our salvation, and that are inimical to our Culture. 

Here's the Deal  progressive minions--I don't give a rat's ass about whether you have happy holidays.  I wish you a very Merry Christmas, and if you are Jewish a heartfelt Happy Hanukkah.  Otherwise, turn aside from your idolatry and debauchery.  You don't "write" our culture--we live it!  If you don't like it, move somewhere else.  Your push for "inclusivity" always has this effect: the marginalization of Christians--which most of us are, at least nominally--and Jews, who are the well spring of salvation, containing the Root of Jesse.  This is simply Orwellian newspeak--an attempt to interfere with our beliefs by controlling our language, and an attempt to silence us in the public forum.  It's an attempt by you--a minority of people, who have the arrogance to think the rest of us are superstitious bigots, and that you are the only one intelligent and just enough to have a say in our culture.  (This of course, doesn't address the "useful idiots" who haven't' thought, but just do what they believe is the trending thing.)  You don't want to say "Merry Christmas"? Then don't.  But don't tell meI shouldn't, you crypto-fascist religious bigots, I'll exercise free speech and freedom of religion, thank you very much.