We’re Going To Start Saying “Merry Christmas” Again

In a speech at Liberty University in January of this year Donald Trump said, “If I’m president you will see ‘Merry Christmas’ in department stores, believe me.”

For far too long America has been under siege with complaints, litigation, angry protests and threats from secular liberals through the coordinated work of the scroogey American Civil Liberties Union and atheists who claimed they were just protecting the constitutional rights of non-Christians.  We are a nation which is overwhelmingly Christian.  We want to celebrate Christmas in peace without having to hide behind closed doors to do so.  We’re weary of being persecuted.

At a “Thank You” rally in West Allis, WI Tuesday night President-elect Donald Trump kept his promise to Wisconsinites to return to say “Merry Christmas”.  Behind him on stage were six beautifully decorated Christmas trees and the placard on his lectern read:  Merry Christmas USA.

During the 8-year-long presidency of The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer he has never uttered the word “Christmas”.

His final Christmas card reads: “Happy holidays.  As our family reflects on our many happy years spent in the White House, we are grateful for the friends we’ve made, the joy we’ve shared, and the gifts of kindness we’ve received. We wish you and your loved ones a joyous holiday season and a wonderful new year.”

On the front of the card, a photo—taken at a state dinner in March honoring Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau—shows him and his family sporting formalwear and wide smiles. He is just the fourth known president to ever feature a photo of himself on the White House Christmas card since the tradition began in 1927—a testament to his arrogance and narcissism.

Naturally, the Left is apoplectic over Trump telling those attending his Thank You Tour rallies that we will start saying “Merry Christmas” again.  His words are to them like nails on a chalkboard.

One disgusting website proclaimed its disgust saying the phrase “Merry Christmas” had now been officially weaponized “into the partisan slogan of a president elected on a wave of hateful rhetoric.”

One commenter wrote, “Truly, it’s what a Middle Eastern Jew who was born in a barn because no one else would take his parents in would have wanted.  One more reason not to say it.  And Trump’s election is one more reason to doubt God’s existence.”

How utterly vile.

Today, from the doctor’s office I visited to the grocery store where I shopped to the pharmacy where I picked up my meds to the restaurant I ate at with friends I said, “Merry Christmas!”  Everyone, and I do mean everyone, wished me a Merry Christmas in return.  I hope this means the war on Christmas is over.

In his most recent rally, President-elect Trump said "Merry Christmas" 3 times. We'll be providing free therapy for anyone offended by this.

— Josh Earnst (@NotJoshEarnest) December 15, 2016

Where Is He That Is Born The King Of The Jews?

Every year at this time there seems to be an augmented attack on those who welcome Christmas into their lives.

Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the “Little House” book series which chronicled a lost era of American history, said of Christmas, “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.”

The Magi, three wisemen who followed a star to Bethlehem to worship the infant Jesus asked, “Where is He that is born the King of the Jews?”

Herod, the ruler of Judea, had been named King of the Jews by the Roman government.  Herod became outraged at the Magi’s question.  The birth of the Christchild threatened his position. Herod cunningly asked them to tell him when they had found The Child so he might also worship Him.  The Magi were warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod because of the treachery in Herod’s heart. 

Having been ignored by The Magi, Herod ordered his Roman soldiers to kill every single male child under two in his kingdom.  This atrocious act of genocide, the Massacre of the Innocents, was meant to rid the world of the Baby Jesus.

The birth of Christ is an incredible event we celebrate each year.  For centuries mankind has kept an appointment with Christmas.

Recently the King Herods, the Grinches and the Scrooges have tried to marginalize Christianity and the birth of Christ through the provocation of religious America.  The progressive secularists have adopted three strategies:  (1) create a niche for secular humanism among the unchurched; (2) mimic various aspects of evangelicalism (even as they target this movement as their main antagonist) and (3) flood the media with minority victimization and identity politics.  It’s not just the ACLU anymore; it’s also The Freedom From Religion Foundation, American Atheists, et.al.

We must not throw away our beloved traditions.  We must celebrate Christmas and freethinkers must learn to survive in a religious society.

Christmas signals to the world that God gave mankind His most glorious gift and 32 years after His birth Jesus was sacrificed upon a cross and resurrected so that we might have everlasting life.

The war on Christmas rages on, but I love a quotation that has been attributed to former President Ronald Reagan:  “Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees; tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.” 

I believe Dickens had it right in A Christmas Carol.  After being visited by the specters of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future, Ebenezer Scrooge learned about the blessings of Christmas and said, “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

Where is He that is born the King of the Jews?  He is in my heart every day in every way.  With the rise of atheist groups in America, I can only hope that Scrooge’s Christmas specters visit these misguided men and women, and that they too, will unharden their hearts and join in the joy of this most holy celebration.

May we always be free to keep our appointment with Christmas.