So we are off and running into this years 'War on Christmas", you can just feel the disgust in the air. Since I have left Christianity, I have been deeply involved in this 'war'. But not this year, I am feeling bored with the situation. Nothing has changed from last year, the same people are raising a fuss of saying "happy holidays". And the question that I want to ask is why. Why is it so important to make this into a bigger deal than what it needs to be?
The Pagan Yule and the christian Christmas are not on the same day. There could easily be respect for the to religious holidays, but that is not going to happen in my lifetime. I could post a page worth of historical facts and they won't make one bit of difference. A couple of years ago I made a YouTube video that expresses my point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4-CEC3UbWU
I am greatly bothered by fox news, not much of a surprise, for their attacks on people that use the word "holiday' instead of Christmas. Because of the fact that there is nothing original about Christianity , that tree is of pagan origin. And if you call it a holiday tree instead of a Christmas tree, you are viewed as unamerican. In the land of religious freedoms and freedom of speech, you are a unamerican if you don't follow the conservative christian mentality.
There is a time that we have to stand for what we believe in and what we know as true. So I have to make my stand about this because if I don't, who will? If you are a christian and you want to celebrate Christmas and you follow your traditions with your close family and friends, I am happy for you. However, if you are the type that gets ticked off because someone said "happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas". You need to rethink your ideals . Nobody is supporting a different holiday, they are being respectful for what ever holiday you may follow. I don't hear a single Jew complaining about not hearing "Happy Hanukkah" when they go shopping. The Pagans don't post complaints about not hearing "Blessed Yule" when they go out shopping. SO the cashier in K-Mart said 'happy holidays', is it worth getting so angry about?
The war on Christmas is a self-imposed war. The zealot conservative Christians don't like to handle anything that takes away from their beliefs. Most have this closed minded view that you are either for god or against god. They fail to understand what true freedom of religion is all about. There are places on this earth that have government controlled religion. Where practicing Christianity is against the law. And the Christians think it is such a bad thing. But yet they have no troubles trying to impose the same thing here as long as Christianity is the religion forced on everyone.
We as pagans view this time with peace and happiness. The sunlight will be returning on Yule, Winter has come, but it will be gone soon enough, and new life will come forth. We deal with the scars of Christianity. We are told that we must honor some of the christian traditions of Christmas, and it takes away from our Yule. Our pagan ancestors were never this greedy. They understood what was really important to life and love. Yet many pagans dive into the christian greed and pride and waste money on things that are not really that important. When you give, do you give from the heart or from the checkbook?
I want to wish everyone a 'Happy Holidays", and I say that out of respect to what ever path you walk. No matter if it is Christmas, Yule, Hanaukah , or any other holiday, I wish you happiness and love.
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