The Season of Celebration

I begin this blog by stating a disclaimer of sorts, this is no way meant as an attack on any religious group but merely and observation made by someone who is not of the 'Christian Faith'. 

 

A lot of my 'Christian' friends complain that they are under attack because their religion is no longer the primary faith in the United States. However, this is the truth our Constitution has a separation of Church and State for a reason, in part because our many of our founding fathers were Agnostic which by definition simply means they did not believe in the idea that God existed or rather there even was a god, in other words it could be argued Atheist in nature. When one considers that, than it should be logical to conclude that this line of this is no longer a Christian nation is a bunch of nonsense fed to you buy your preachers, political party etc... this is important because in order to have an open discussion about the idea of Christmas it is important to understand that there has never been an attempt to make Christianity the national religion.

 

Why is this important, well, let me put in perspective, an old friend of mine posted on Social Media that the First Lady had put the nativity back on the lawn of the White House, and as usual the flock of misinformed had plenty to say bashing the previous administration and saying things like Christ is back in Christmas, so on and so on.  Which personally I found as an insult, not just to me but to others who live, and work in this country and are constantly subjected to this religious bigotry. So this is the truth, Christians are not be persecuted, not only are they not being persecuted but they are often the ones doing the persecuting of others that are different, different religions, sexual orientations, and different political ideologies. It matters because, we as a nation are currently in a state of divide and separate, this  occurs because people do not look for answers on their own but rather take what their pastors, and political parties say as gospel.  Yet this is not the intention of the founding fathers, who believed in part it was important for the electorate to educate themselves on matters of state, state in our case at this current moment means defining the boundaries of Christianity in a nation where there is purposely a separation of Religion and Government.

 

 In all of this many arguments could be made against and for the idea of faith in government, but in truth when faith determines the action of a nation, in which those who are not of a certain faith are forced to practice the faith than we end up back in the 'dark ages' where people are murdered for suspected non conformity to a religion that has not meaning to them. This as history tells us in not a good thing.  It is not a good thing because many have been murdered in the name of religion.  Either because they were not the state religion or because they were a specific religion.

 

So back to my friend and her social media post, I was tempted to post a negative comment, and all I said is that if you believe that Christ was taken out of Christmas than perhaps the issue is you and not everyone else your religion tells you to be steadfast in your faith and practice of it.  Not everyone celebrates Christmas or is Christian. To which I got a retort you liberals are the problem, Christmas is about the birth of Christ who cares about other faiths. I responded and that is the difference, Liberals like myself understand that not all of us are Christian and we believe that public displays of one faith on federal grounds is a violation of the Constitution that separates church and state. Removing the nativity is not a persecution of Christians but rather an acknowledgement that in placing religious symbols on federal land we violate the very laws we hold sacred.  No response instead my friend states, I can post what I want on my wall, to which I state, no one said you cannot, but it shows up on my wall so I have the right to respond freedom of speech works both ways.

 

This is the different perspective, I am not Christian I celebrate the Yule Tide which begins on December 20th and ends on December 25th. Yule is the celebration of the rebirth of the Sun God, who will grow stronger so our crops can grow in the growing seasons, Sound familiar?