Writes Jeffrey Folks, on page 51 of his 1985 book, The Rough Guide to Yugoslavia, “Religious faiths have experienced a waning of worship.”
Folks was describing the transformation of SOCIALIST Yugoslavia into COMMUNIST Yugoslavia and, in the communist state…CHRISTMAS had been done away with as a publicly displayed holiday.
One wonders, and rightly so, just how far away WE are from THAT.
Perhaps, a better way of posing the question would be…
How CLOSE are we to it?
While even in a communist country back then, as Christianity or Judaism lived in the hearts and minds of those who practiced the faiths, any outward display of them was subject to neighborhood and government spies and no one wanted to suffer the consequences of being caught with a Christmas tree or a Menorah.
In this country, it’s hard to believe that such things would be possible but, let’s remember, it wasn’t THAT long ago that anyone would have thought someone could have been evicted from their home for flying an American flag.
Today’s home owners associations have been downright commie in their approach to veterans who have proudly displayed the stars and stripes over the last few years and, assorted atheist trolls from states hundreds or, thousands of miles from the scene of the Creche, have raised unholy HELL over THOSE public displays.
In today’s politically correct, agnostic, liberal, secular society, why WOULDN’T we expect to start hearing orders that Christmas lights and Christmas trees in windows will be banned?
We will be told that such overt displays of religion including a Menorah in the window, anywhere that can be seen from the street or the sidewalk, is OFFENSIVE to those who don’t believe in anything at all.
We will be told that, to be INCLUSIVE and FAIR to all, WE must NOT decorate our own homes for whatever religious holiday WE celebrate.
Oh…I know…It sounds insane but, is it any more insane than the new ordinance, enacted less than a month ago in San Rafael California, making it illegal for residents to smoke in their own homes if they share a wall with another dwelling. A ban that applies to home owners and renters alike, and covers condominiums, co-ops, apartments and any multi-family residence containing three or more units?
Is it any more insane than a law that made it illegal to sell anything larger than a 16 ounce soda?
Why wouldn’t the ACLU expand THEIR war on Christmas from the town square to your yard and into your living room…Given the opportunity?
I can see them threatening to SUE towns and cities that allow the private display of Christmas lights, Menorahs or even wreaths if those communities fail to pass and enforce laws, with stiff fines attached, to quell the practice.
Like it or not…It’s where we’re heading with liberals leading the way.
Traditional Christmas carols are already banned in public schools, shopping malls, town squares and government buildings because, 1 or 2 liberal malcontents “claim” to feel…”offended” by them.
Do you really think, having achieved success in those venues, they’ll stop there?
These liberal. anti Christmas fruitcakes seek nothing more than to irritate those who don’t share their desire for socialism and the liberal media is more than happy to assist.
Fuel to the fire or water to the yule log…Either way one chooses to view it.
It’s not that they are really offended by religious celebrations, not that they are encumbered by the lights, or trees, or songs…
These atheists, satanists, agnostics, those who believe in the warped ideologies bent on the destruction of infidels and…Liberals, are simply seeking free publicity for their potential law suits against traditional American and religious values.
Call it a form of litigious terrorism if you will.
In Oklahoma, there is a group demanding to be allowed satanic symbols to be placed next to the 10 Commandments at the courthouse. If they don’t get permission, they’ll sue. The more publicity they get, the more afraid other cities become of having any religious display at THEIR courthouses.
They’ll continue on their not so merry way toward socialism as long as news organizations continue to air their grievances.
Speaking of the airing of grievances…In Tallahassee Florida, the Department of Management Services, a terrified government gaggle of dunderheads, actually issued a permit to a liberal/socialist fool, whose name I will not publicize, to erect, in the state capitol, alongside the Christmas and Menorah displays…
A FESTIVUS POLE…MADE OF BEER CANS!!!
Festivus…A fictional “holiday” derived from a 1997 episode of SEINFELD.
This absolute moron says, “This is the most ridiculous thing I could come up with. The only people I’m worried about offending is the Festivus people.”
He is NOT “worried” about offending Christians or Jews…THOSE are the people he WANTS to offend and offend to the point they will not place their displays in the public view ever again.
And if this fool is successful in that endeavor, he and others of his ilk, won’t stop there.
They won’t be happy until our right to practice our religions has been vanquished.
Remember…Obama, a dyed in the wool socialist stated, “…it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
He was talking about God-fearing, Conservatives who hold American traditional values and THAT is what people like the Satanist symbol, festivus pole morons DO find offensive.
THOSE are the very things, traditional Judeo-Christian values, that SOCIALISM must do away with to take hold.
And what, in a nutshell, ARE those values?
Morals.
The belief in something bigger that WE are…Bigger than THEY are and, most offensively to the socialist, atheist, agnostic and satan worshiping mindset…BIGGER than GOVERNMENT!!!
It’s time we, as Conservatives, take a stand and, to do so with boldness, we must not think of ourselves simply as Conservatives.
WE must take on the role of CONSERVATORS of religious freedoms.
Remember?
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
REMEMBER?????
When they threaten to sue a city for placing a Christmas manger scene in the park…WE need to COUNTER SUE and DEMAND the REMOVAL of EVERY SINGLE TREE AND SHRUB FROM THE PARK because…BY THE PRACTICE OF DRUIDS…TREES ARE SYMBOLS OF RELIGION AND SHOULD THEREFORE BE REMOVED FROM ALL PUBLIC PLACES!!!
It’s called…Meeting absurdity with…ABSURDITY!!!
When fools like the idiot in Florida demands the right to erect a FESTIVUS POLE next to the CHRISTmas display…WE must DEMAND the right to erect a CROSS next to EVERY FLAG POLE!!!
And we must…AS THE CONSERVATORS OF TRADITIONAL JUDEO-CHRISTIAN, AMERICAN VALUES…DEMAND THAT THE VERY SAME ENTITY…THE ACLU…DEFEND OUR RIGHTS JUST AS THEY DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF SOCIALISTS or…LITIGATION WILL BE ON THE TABLE!!!
We must fight their war, THEIR WAY and we must do it now while we still have something for which to fight.
If we wait much longer, we will only be fighting for what has become a distant memory.
And…Starting with our school boards and town or city councils to our state representatives, Governors and all the way to Washington DC…We must identify and elect those who will stand FOR our Constitution and founding documents and throw OUT those who would willingly TRAMPLE them for the furtherance of socialism.
Before we say “never again”…We must say…”NO MORE” and mean it.