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Are you a Happy Holidays kind of person or a Merry Christmas person? If you are former, phooey on you. If you are the later, keep up the good work!
For a number of years now the far Left has been attacking Christmas. And they are still at it.
Catholic Stand has published a number of articles over the years about the Left’s attempt to secularize Christmas (here, here, and here, for instance). I suspect the Left has also been trying to formulate a plan to de-Christianize Easter. So far, however, praise the Lord, they haven’t been able to come up with anything that works.
The attack on Christmas started in the 1980s. Atheists and Satanists tried to have Nativity scenes (creches) banned from government (i.e., public) property. The tactic was only partially successful. They did succeed in getting the Christmas Season to be referred to as the ‘Holiday Season.’
But they lost the bigger battle. Nativity scenes are allowed (Lynch v. Donnelly, 1984) on government property as long as they are part of a display erected to “celebrate the Holiday recognized by Congress and national tradition and to depict the origins of that Holiday.”
But the left takes its victories where they can. So, now we hear a lot of “Happy Holidays” during the Advent and Christmas Seasons. “Merry Christmas” – the greeting that acknowledges the real reason for the season – is slowly fading away.
Continued below.
catholicstand.com
For a number of years now the far Left has been attacking Christmas. And they are still at it.
Catholic Stand has published a number of articles over the years about the Left’s attempt to secularize Christmas (here, here, and here, for instance). I suspect the Left has also been trying to formulate a plan to de-Christianize Easter. So far, however, praise the Lord, they haven’t been able to come up with anything that works.
The attack on Christmas started in the 1980s. Atheists and Satanists tried to have Nativity scenes (creches) banned from government (i.e., public) property. The tactic was only partially successful. They did succeed in getting the Christmas Season to be referred to as the ‘Holiday Season.’
But they lost the bigger battle. Nativity scenes are allowed (Lynch v. Donnelly, 1984) on government property as long as they are part of a display erected to “celebrate the Holiday recognized by Congress and national tradition and to depict the origins of that Holiday.”
But the left takes its victories where they can. So, now we hear a lot of “Happy Holidays” during the Advent and Christmas Seasons. “Merry Christmas” – the greeting that acknowledges the real reason for the season – is slowly fading away.
Capitulating to the Left
Continued below.
Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas? - Catholic Stand
For a number of years now the far Left has been attacking Christmas. And they are still attacking it with great gusto.
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