Another Christmas rant.....

That's right folks....a rant....just thinking about the post: "What kind of tree?"
 http://1ncisfan.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-kind-of-tree.html
and the decision another state did to name the Christmas tree a "holiday tree"....and it got me to thinking of what would happen to some of the songs that we sing around this time if the PC group had their way....maybe it would go something like this:

• "O holiday tree, O holiday tree..."
• "Go Tell it on the mountain, but make sure that you have permission from green groups"
• "Have a holly, jolly, holiday season"
• "I'll be home for the holiday season, you can count on me"
•  "I'm dreaming of a multicultural holiday season"
•  "Do they know it's the holiday season at all"
• "Grandma got run over by a reindeer and is suing Santa for having his reindeer unattended"
• "Simply having a wonderful holiday season time"
• "Oh you better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I'm tell you why...because the representation of Nicholas has hired the CIA to watch over you and he's coming to your town...."

see how silly it all is....But all of this is because they want to take the real meaning for the season out...and that is the birth of Jesus....by simply calling it a "holiday" in which there is no specificity and everyone can celebrate it, you water down the impact of the birth of the Messiah and what He came here to do...to borrow correctly from another song..."to save us all from satan's power when we had gone astray"...If there is no real reason for the season, then why celebrate it?

So either we celebrate "Christ"mas with Jesus as the focal point of the season that brings hope, or celebrate "warm fuzzimass" where there is no focus except for emotionalism (and trying to outfight everyone for that present that may not be necessary) that brings nothing....Don't know you, but I would rather have real hope than any present that people can buy....