The atheist Boogieman

It’s finally here – the end of the semester.

No more tests, essays or due dates for students for three weeks. This is a time when families across the nation drive or fly for hours to see each other, often for the first time in months or years.

And with all the fuss about getting home, seeing family and loved ones and finding what everyone wants for Christmas, we apparently miss out on thinking about the war we are suffering through.

While we spend our time shopping or staying bundled up and watching marathons of James Bond and “A Christmas Story,” we don’t think about the war. We let the distractions of our own lives leave us blind to the suffering caused by it.

Christmas is a time of reflection, and this is the time when we must think about those who are suffering. Namely, baby Jesus. Is he not offended by all the people not celebrating his birthday this month?

And shouldn’t Christmas in the country dedicated to celebrating (and spreading) freedom and democracy be about openness and warmth? Well, that doesn’t mean that we should compromise.

We cannot back down from nor should we negotiate with those who seek to destroy our freedom. So to those who wish to acknowledge that maybe, perhaps, there are more days in December than just Christmas, that Hanukkah is celebrated by millions of people worldwide, that Kwanzaa is not an atheist conspiracy, and New Year’s Eve is also a holiday, and that maybe “Happy Holidays” means acknowledging Christmas in addition to these holidays, I ask:

Why do you insist on making December about something other than the birth of our Lord?

Why do you continue to ignore baby Jesus? We can’t put nativity scenes in government buildings, we can’t post the Ten Commandments in front of courthouses and we can’t hear “Merry Christmas” all December long.

While our troops fight overseas, there is a hidden war going on here. And if it weren’t for heroes like John Gibson, Bill O’Reilly and Bernard Goldberg who believe that December is only about Christ, no one would be standing up against these ACLU, liberal, God-hating, America-hating secularists and multiculturalists who seek to destroy America by acknowledging there is a world beyond the Christian Christmas perspective.

So this Christmas, when you are sitting around the dinner table with family, or opening up gifts, remember who to thank for this special day. Because if it weren’t for these culture warriors, we might be forced to acknowledge a world beyond our preconceived (often false) notions of America. And that’s not America at all. That’s not even Mexico.