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No More Xmas!

December 4, 2007 |

Posted by Jay Foreman · Filed Under Emerging Church, Christian Traditions, Christian Life, Culture, Politics 

by Guest blogger Pastor Rob Singleton;
Sr. Pastor, Southbrook Church

I’m tired of battling folks about the secularization of Christmas! It’s not only wearisome, it’s mind-bogglingly stupid!

Taking Christ out of Christmas is like taking the tires off your car and then having the whole family climb in for a Sunday drive. It doesn’t work. How long is our society going to be caught up in this ridiculous “Emperor and His Clothes,” politically correct culture?

I guess if you can’t beat’m you should just join’m, right?

Ok, I’m gonna give it a shot. Why don’t we call Independence Day, “Fireworks Day?” I’m sure there are some folks in England who still might get their feelings hurt about what went down in 1776!

While we’re at it we could change Mother’s Day and Father’s Day to “Parent’s Day.” They’re already doing this in the California school system—why should Ahhhhnold have all the fun terminating tradition? Let’s all have a crack at it! The options are almost limitless. Let’s see, we could change…

Labor Day to “Play Day,” so we don’t offend everyone who doesn’t really want to work…

Valentine’s Day to, “Significant Other Day,” because Saint Valentine was such a traditionalist when it came to marriage being between a man and a woman…

Thanksgiving to, “Entitlement Day,” because we don’t really need to be thankful for things we have a right to in the first place!…

We could change Easter to “National Bunny Day,” and everyone could exchange eggs (very carefully) with one another and buy pet rabbits…

We could change George Washington’s Day and Abraham Lincoln’s B-Day to “Presidents Day” so as not to offend other presidents who may have done little or even harmed our country, but at least—

Cross that one off…already been done.

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Comments

2 Comments so far

  1. Steve Moore on December 4, 2007 4:08 pm

    CT has an article about that which I found interesting.

    http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/december/14.18.html

  2. shane magee on December 5, 2007 9:26 am

    couldn’t disagree more!!! i’m a christian who LOVES christmas but this entire conversation which happens every single year is inane, passe and alarmist. i wrote much more about it 2 christmases ago - http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2005/12/_so_its_that_ti.html. i’d be interested in your thoughts.

    grace and peace.

    shane

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