War on Christmas?

In this house, we are atheists (which wasn't mentioned to me at a young age). However, as a young child, we had a little nativity scene in with our Christmas decorations. Every year I would play with it, and it formed part of my early understanding of the Christian religion. Except I misheard, and I thought it was "Cheesus" and the thing around his head was the cheese.

In other words, the concept of God wasn't commented on until I reached a certain age.

What is the war on Christmas? A fight to eliminate a holiday? Some laugh here, as we start decorating for the holidays way too early, and are blasted with the same Christmas carols year after year on repeat way too many times.

Is that what the war on Christmas is? I say, no. The war on Christmas is, quite simply, a fight to remove Jesus from the holiday.

Now we can fight till the cows come home over the original holiday (apparently it was Pagan or someth'), or we can just admit that in this day and age, Christmas is Christ's birth celebration. Do people have some sort of problem admitting that we celebrate Christmas in this country? Now, I don't personally care if a store decides to use an all-inclusive "happy holidays" greeting instead of the standard "Merry Christmas," as to not leave out our Jewish friends. But is there something freaking wrong with a nativity scene?

Some say, I don't like seeing icons of stuff I don't believe on government property! And we've all been there, we don't like the way the country is run either but there isn't a well-formed "violation of church and state" law to draw upon.

The country was formed on Christian principles, and it doesn't indoctrinate anyone to have a depiction of Jesus' birth on public land. That's what I think. And then we get a chorus of "They were deists!"

Anyway, I think that "violation of church and state," applies to actual laws and not decorations.

And then, we get the red cup controversy, where Subbie and Conscie clashed and then Conscie agreed.

Well, it's kind of nice to have a design on a cup, instead of just a blank red cup. It's fine to point that out, everyone. Hey what gives? No manger scene?

I think next year, Starbucks should have a nativity scene on the cup. We had an atheist "nothing" year, now let's have a Ch- Chr- Christ, Ch- Chr- Christmas year. It doesn't mean you are a heathen if you are gay!

It's time we do away in one fall swoop with the Christianity phobia. What it comes down to is the, "people who believe in that don't believe in science!" argument over and over again. A lot of people don't think that's a valid argument.

And while were at it, we'll have a pharmaceutical design on the cups to celebrate atheist's Christmas next year.