Twas The Month Before Christmas

[Donald Aquilano]

Twas the month before Christmas*

*When all through our land,*

*Not a Christian was praying*

*Nor taking a stand.*

*See the PC Police had taken away,*

*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*

*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*

*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*

*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*

* December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.*

*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*

*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*

*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*

*Something was changing, something quite odd! *

*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*

*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*

*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*

* At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*

*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*

*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*

*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*

*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*

*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*

*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !*

*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*

*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*

*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*

* Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*

*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*

*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*

*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*

*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*

*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*

*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,

not Happy Holiday !*

Please, all Christians join together and

wish everyone you meet during the

holidays a

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Christ is The Reason for the Christ-mas Season!

[draggar]

Funny how "PC" caters to some, shuns others, and completely ignores many.

We celebrate the Yule yet you don't hear anyone promoting that holiday nor the winter solstice.

I want my holiday back! Why did everyone have to move theirs to then and drown out the Yule?

Christ is The Reason for the Christ-mas Season!

Actually, he's not.

Jesus was born in April and in the very early days of Christianity to keep their faith "hidden" they moved it closer to the Yule (traditionally celebrated on the Winter solstice - and a few days longer depending on how long the log would burn).

(Or they moved it to coincide with the Roman New Year or roughly 9 months after the Annunciation of Mary).

The first Christmas (on record) wasn't until the 11th century. No one knows the actual day he was born since the calendar has changed a lot (even the "years") since he was born.

Today's "Christmas season" is nothing more than a commercial push for sales (starting on Black Friday) and to promote giving objects and items to friends and family. Today, to most it is a commercial holiday as opposed to a religious holiday.

[DomainsInc]

a festivus for the rest of us.

[HarveyJ]

I was thinking of doing something different this year and having Kwanzaa...

[Mike Cruz]

I was thinking about grubbing down on Thanksgiving, taking advantage of some of the deals on Black Friday sleeping in on Christmas and join the family for dinner... other than that, who are these 'Christ' and 'Santa' characters?

Oh and btw, the founding fathers of this great country didn't practice any religion, in fact they were anti-religion. The religions started coming in as more people populated to this continent and there were several religions, just not Christianity how many people think... its called di-ver-si-ty... it was here then and it is here now... get use to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHvVYYpkyXY