What can we do about this?

A suggestion of many is to just forget about it and just conform, but truly will that casue the problem to go away? Not in theleast bit, becasue the problem is then just ignored. So what can we do to appease everyone. Well a good thing to start off with is to introduce a moment of silence into schools. Why you may ask? Simply to allow any person of any faith or non-faith to just meditate or get a few more minutes of peace and quiet before classes. It was actually a part of schools a while back but it seems to have lost it's place in schools. My dad and mom in fact remeber such things. (They were born in 1963 and 1965 respectively). Is this it? Certainly not, this is just a simple way to get children annd others to recognize and respect other faiths other then their own. Now you may argue that just saying Happy Holiday's is a way to get other sto accept culture, but infact it's just another way to secularize society and not expose childern and others to culture and religion, which seems to be a huge part of culture in some countries. (especially those of Jewish or Islamic descent). So this saying of Happy Hannuka and Merry Christmas, etc. will get kids wondering. They'll ask questions like, "Hey whats that...?" or "What's that holiday and what do they celebrate?" So this in fact is a way of creating a better more knownledgeable society and future generation. Instead we just have kids that don't know about other cultures and beliefs becasue it might offend them. I mean how can you expect a kid to make their own choice and get things done on their own if all day everyday they are being told what to do and like and say. How will they do things if they are having it all done for them?

Two Christmas's?

In my last post it sounded as if i wanted to seperate Christmas into two different holiday's. In a sesnse this is true, but truthfully it is not. What I want to see is a Christmas that is pure and true to the reason it was made. Obviously we can still give presents to one another, and celebrate with parties and other festive things. What we have to realize though is that the true meaning is not these things. A gift doesn't make Christmas what it is at all. The true way we can celebrate the season is to remember the ones we love in our lives. It also is to commemorate the Birth of Christ. What if someone is not religious? Simple then they don't have to celebrate it because of Jesus, but because of the people they love, and to many that is Jesus. In the life of the non-believer this doesn't ring true obviously and therefore they do not celebrate it in such a way. I would like to add again that the statement Merry Christmas is just a statement of comradory, and humanity among humans. It symbolizes the fate and experience we all have to go through as humans. So the next time you see someone in December don't be afriad to say Merry Christmas!

Offensive?

AMEN!

Happy Holidays?

What do you say as a greeting when it's late December and the festive time of year is in full swing? If you said Merry Christmas you'd be right but not in the political sense. In fact you'd be labeled offensive. Don't dismay because there is a phrase that you can say thats not offensive in the least. Happy Holidays! It's perfectly approved by the government and the powers that be. Confused yet? Well you should be because if you are then you have realized that the reason the season of Christmas was created in the first place was in order to clebrate the Birth of Christ. Why then has the holiday become just another day when consumerism and materialism gain a rebirth in the hearts of men? Well with the secularization of society it's no surprise that thais is the case. So what can one do? Simple you need to keep Christ in Christmas and keep saying Merry Christmas. I mean many would say. "Well that's offensive!" To those people I say. CALM DOWN. It's not that big of a deal. I mean people definitely can still celebrate the season of Christmas as secular, but don't change the name of the season. Obviously this is ironic because this time of year is probably not when Jesus was born. In fact we don't truly know much about when he was born except that hewas born between 4BC and 3AD adn born dring the reign of Ceasar Augustus. Why then should we say Merry Christmas then if this is the case? Well that's also simple. It's because one needs to seperate Christmas the "holiday" from Christmas the "Holy Day". Simply put both the secular celebrations and the religious celebrations can be celebrated at once. The only problem is that peole need to realize when someone says Merry Christmas they aren't say "Hey believe what i believe, NOW!" They are simply saying hey man have a good day, and i hope you happyness through out this time of year.

In recent years the season of Christmas has become more secularized. The word Christ has been replaced with the letter X. Merry Christmas is now seen as offensive, and therefore has been replaced by Happy Holiday's. Municiple Nativity scenes have been questions and challenged. For example in many places like Ellwood the scenes have been challenged. (http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Community-Supports-Nativity-Scene-at-City-Building/xNRMmbrB8U2eYxmxEaZ_3A.cspx). From the Friday after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, until the end of the Christmas season many people go carzy for shopping. They wake up early and go bargin hunting for the best deal. They focus so much on this day that they forget that the Sunday after Thanksgiving is the beggining of Advent. Many forget that the whole reason for the season is the birth of the son of God. They begin to focus on material things so much that they go to great lengths to get their desired items. For example in California a woman actually pepper sprayed a whole group of people to egt what she wanted. (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/25/ten-injured-after-woman-uses-pepper-spray-on-black-friday-crowd/) Twenty people where injured. In Long Island, NY another case of a security guard being trampled by people trying to get into a store that had just opened.(http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008448574_shop290.html). This move from a Christmas about being with family and celebrating God, to a Chritmas about getting the best gift for all has caused problems in America and is just getting worse.

The War on Christmas!

In recent years the season of Christmas has become more secularized. The word Christ has been replaced with the letter X. Merry Christmas is now seen as offensive, and therefore has been replaced by Happy Holiday's. Municiple Nativity scenes have been questions and challenged. For example in many places like Ellwood the scenes have been challenged. (http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Community-Supports-Nativity-Scene-at-City-Building/xNRMmbrB8U2eYxmxEaZ_3A.cspx).