Comments on: Multicultural Mush http://www.tropesofthetimes.com/2006/12/26/multicultural-mush/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= a blog on the era and its "paper of record" Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:02:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Andoni http://www.tropesofthetimes.com/2006/12/26/multicultural-mush/#comment-3 Andoni Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:29:28 +0000 http://www.tropesofthetimes.com/2006/12/26/multicultural-mush/#comment-3 Just as you viewed Patterson’s Op Ed as an affront to non-Christians, I believe it also offends the 20 to 25% who consider themselves fundamentalist Christians. These folks are very upset that Christmas has evolved into what they consider to be a very non religious holiday. If they had their wish, Christmas lights, decorated pine trees, and department store displays would all be changed to baby Jesus manger scenes. My brother in law works for Pat Robertson and when I sent him “A Holiday for All of Us” he hated it and said it proved his point that Christmas has been de-Christianized. So, I believe that instead of complaining about what few religious elements are left in the public domain (outside of churches) we should rejoice that Christmas has evolved this much from what the fundamentalists would dictate. Unless we can turn the clock back to a time before Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” and December 25 was just another workday, we should be happy that we a winning this battle As a final proof that Christians are losing the Christmas battle, go to a non Christian country such as Thailand and notice the decorative lights, festive pine trees with presents under them, and Christmas music playing everywhere. Everything is joyous, but no one even pretends that there is any religious significance to this celebration. And from a true believer’s perspective, that is exactly what is happening in this country. Just as you viewed Patterson’s Op Ed as an affront to non-Christians, I believe it also offends the 20 to 25% who consider themselves fundamentalist Christians. These folks are very upset that Christmas has evolved into what they consider to be a very non religious holiday. If they had their wish, Christmas lights, decorated pine trees, and department store displays would all be changed to baby Jesus manger scenes.

My brother in law works for Pat Robertson and when I sent him “A Holiday for All of Us” he hated it and said it proved his point that Christmas has been de-Christianized.

So, I believe that instead of complaining about what few religious elements are left in the public domain (outside of churches) we should rejoice that Christmas has evolved this much from what the fundamentalists would dictate. Unless we can turn the clock back to a time before Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” and December 25 was just another workday, we should be happy that we a winning this battle

As a final proof that Christians are losing the Christmas battle, go to a non Christian country such as Thailand and notice the decorative lights, festive pine trees with presents under them, and Christmas music playing everywhere. Everything is joyous, but no one even pretends that there is any religious significance to this celebration.

And from a true believer’s perspective, that is exactly what is happening in this country.

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