The real war on Christmas

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Today's blog is about the real war on Christmas.  It's not that little made-up one that right-wing talking heads like to grouse about.  It's a very small part of a real war on Christmas that continues day after day.  It doesn't stop when the tree comes down.  And, sadly, it's a lot more than just telling someone with a bit of defiance, "Merry Christmas". This happened to me at a store.  A lady defiantly told the customers in her line "merry Christmas".  I figured it must've been her last day, because the way she said it it wasn't sincere; it was defiance of the MAN!  

The war on Christmas started over 2,000 years ago with the murder of innocent children.  The plan was to catch Jesus in the slaughter, but to be sure, Herod decided to kill all of the male children in the region where Jesus was born who were under the age of two years.  

I'd say that made the war on Christmas very tangible.  Fast forward about three decades, and you'll see that the Jewish leaders at that time were very much involved in their own "war" on Christ, which ultimately would lead to His sacrifice for us on the cross at Calvary.  They mistakenly thought that killing Christ would be the end of something.  As it turns out, it was the beginning of something wonderful, yet the fight cintinues.

This war against Christ was expanded to include His followers was perpetuated in the Roman Empire.  You've heard how Christians were put to death in Rome, I'm sure.  And that war perpetuates even today.  The bloody bombing of churches on Christmas Day by Islamic extremists in Africa ought to tell you that there really is a war on Christmas; that people DIE in this fight.  You say Merry Christmas and feel you've won a victory.  People in Africa paid for their belief in Jesus with their lives.....

The war is real, the enemy is real.  The tactics he uses to defeat us are real, and by no means am I diminishing the whole "Merry Christmas" vs "happy holidays" discussion.  It's part of something very real.  I believe Satan will use anything and everything at his disposal to diminish the value of and the reason for the celebration of Christ's birth.  

As the year winds down, I thought it would be a good thing to share with you over the last two days, things I hope that will stay in your mind throughout the year.  They are that Christmas is Christ and He doesn't just show up at Christmas and Easter and that this whole business of a War On Christmas is so much more than just the propaganda about it.  There is a battle that has been going on now for the better part of two thousand years and it's something that should also not be trivialized.

I'm just sayin....


 


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