JOY TO THE WORLD of course………

It has occurs to me as I read the current newspapers and watch the Television channels, especially the news and talk channels, that this old world has finally gone off the deep end, and the reason for the season has gone completely away. A long time ago we as a country called ourselves a Christian nation, pledged allegiance to the flag, put our hands over our hearts when we did, and prayed in school to start the day. We were one nation, catholic, protestant, Jewish, agnostic, atheist, whatever, we lived, played lived and fought together, won three wars, lost tens of thousands of young men in the process, and always were proud to be Americans.

Now we have the pleasure of  apologizing to the world for being to aggressive, for not understanding the needs that they have to kill us, and mold us more to the general likeness of those who are not our friends, nor share our combined faiths nor values. But do like the fact that because we are a Christian Nation, even though our current President says we are not, have learned how to merchandise and market the sentiment that goes with the spirit of the Christmas season, and turned it into the biggest dollar and cents period of the entire shopping year, where 20% of the total dollars spent at the marketplace are spent at this time of the year.

If those who would make us take down the Christmas signs, and replace them with the Happy Holiday signs, removing Christ and his birthday, for the main celebratory  reason for all of the advertising Blitz. And if they could find another reason to build up a campaign that can equal all of the momentum that builds with Concerts, Plays, programs, services, events, and Public Relation ideas, and still get the dollars coming in to equal this time of year, then by all means get to it, and let us who do believe, have our small time of spiritual celebration, keep our old time values in place for our children and grandchildren for years to come, and let the rest of the world go by.

By the way, do you think that maybe we could begin to promote the birth of Obama, or  Chavez, or some other hero so the new world will be able to continue to bring in the bucks that they are currently stealing from those who would keep Christ in Christmas…Well see you next time in THE DEACON SAYS…and keep the faith, God still Loves you…