A wonderful GOOD MORNING!!! to 2024 and You All! yup, start of a new year! No resolutions, just a re-commit to being a better person on this end! What’s yours?
Holiday Musings Ed-vise today. Cause that’s what I did on this little hiatus…mused…and stressed…and happy…and all range of emotions in between.
I was musing about a bunch of stuff while driving and thinking. All the headlines and conspiracies; all the joys and sorrows of the world and universe. Dying stars (space types), along with stars being born (again, space types). Cause that’s what I think about. I know…NERD ALERT!
Still, it didn’t stop me from catching some clips about the so called “War on Christmas” that Faux News likes to puke out of their cake holes.
That’s the big conspiracy put forward by the “Christian Conservatives” about being banned from saying “Merry Christmas” and banning Christmas displays and trees and all that other stuff. You know what I’m talking about?
It brought me back to a conversation I had a long time ago. Back when I was in high school in Alaska (home of the North Pole and Santa-Land).
At the church I went to at the time, there was an elementary school teacher. I don’t recall her first name but her last was Baumgartner (I think). Really a genuinely nice lady.
Anyway, Christmas was coming around and the conversation came up about Christmas displays and what have you, in the public space. Then, the conversation turned to Christmas displays in the classroom.
Ms. Baumgartner said she did not have any such displays in her classroom.
“Why?” of course was the response.
She said that so long as she was not permitted to put things up about Jesus, she would not allow stuff about Santa Clause in the classroom.
And thus, the war on Christmas was started for me.
The so called “war” was started by Coca Cola, Hallmark, and Hollywood. It was and has been supported by the so called “Christian Conservatives” and the Faux News crowd.
Christmas was NEVER supposed to be about all the holiday display stuff. Christmas was supposed to be about Christ Morning. Meaning the birth of the Christ Child. DUH!
The so called “War on Christmas” is because of a blurring of the lines between a religious celebration AND a consumer icon of Santa Clause.
So, in 358 days (next Christmas), when you start hearing the “War on Christmas” ask which Christmas they are talking about: the religious one or the store front one. Of course, they won’t know which one they are talking about so they will say “Both.” Then point out all the displays all over the world and ask again.
It’s like shooting fish in a barrel
I’m just saying
That’s it for today. Be the person your dog thinks you are. Check in on each other and remember a hungry clock will always go back…FOUR SECONDS! BWAHAHAHAHHAHA…Tick Tock, TIck Tock.
Peace
Ed-vise 