RSSThe Death of Christmas, Part 2: Christian Complicity
Gene Lalor | December 17, 2009
In “The Death of Christmas, Part I,” I indulged myself with musings on the good old days when Christmastime was, well, Christmastime and not Happy Holidays-time or Wondrous Winter Wonderland-time.
Public school high school and middle school musicals in those days of yore customarily presented Christmas shows in Decembers back then, reflecting the interests of students and their parental, and grandparental, units.
That’s a thing of the past, one more tradition tossed under the bus of political correctness and the new secularism sweeping the country.
And those prime but not exclusive celebrants of Christmas are as responsible as anyone else for this “revolting turn of events,” to quote from an old radio/tv show, “The Life Of Riley.”
Some of us prefer to carp about the secularization of December 25th and yet do nothing to change things.
Others, such as audiences at those “Winter Concerts” devoid of any reference to Christmas, applaud politely and listlessly in disappointment at the musical fare presented and they too do diddlyjacksquat to insist the presenters hark back to tradition.
Nor do most of us object to borderline and cross-borderline sacriligious and merely-inappropriate goings on in our society.
Those carpers, those all-too-tolerant Christmas celebrants who accept the new status quo, are as complicit in the death of Christmas as the secularists, the mockers, the retailers, and the Obama administration.
This Christmas season’s latest affronts to Christian beliefs include these “comical” representations of the birth of Jesus Christ attended by a dinosaur and a sultry Mother of God, Mary: http://bit.ly/7Gql29
All very amusing to secularists, all very blasphemous to practicing Christians who nevertheless tolerate it.
Further insult to Christian injury was added by the White House’s decision, since rescinded, to do away with the Christmas creche in the White House.
The reason for the recission seems to have been a rare grassroots objection. Obama is very attuned to grassroots, aka voters.
It was originally decided by Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and other Obamians to dispense with the traditional display of an eighteenth century creche in the East Room: 
“White House social secretary Desiree Rogers revealed to The New York Times that the Obamas were planning a “non-religious” Christmas for the “people’s house,” on the basis that Christians are responsible for the secularization of our national and religious festivity: http://bit.ly/8S08aL
Precisely what “people” Rogers had in mind is unclear, considering that Christians in America constitute at least 76% of the population. 
An impassioned and edifying explanation by Rachel Campos-Duffy of why the creche should be displayed in “the people’s house” is viewable on the above link.
Rogers had a point, though.
If not totally responsible for making Christmas a pagan holiday of spending and revelry, we are partially responsible by virtue of our acceptance and participation in “Holiday” deals from retailers who rake in profits even as they consciously avoid mention of Christmas.
None of those changes compare to what’s happening in America’s schools. Kids are our future and our Christian future is rapidly being whittled away by irrelevant alterations to what our kids can celebrate.
Given the forces and the Obamian control possessed by those forces, it’s only a matter of time before our national holiday of Christmas Day is redefined as the Winter Solstice Celebration during which we should exchange gifts in honor of Mammon.
The new designation under Barrack Hussein Obama for Christmas may become Mohammed’s half-birthday, a swaddled elf in the manger, or Rudolph’s birthday.
Far too many of us have become complicit in what Wordsworth called two centuries ago, “a sordid boon” fueled by “getting and spending.”
I guess we get what we deserve.
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