One of the main messages my Dad provided me while growing up was to never let the noise of nonsense play louder then the voices of reason. He would remind me that the clatter of the crowd could sometimes chip away at the facts creating a din obstructing rational and truth. People who are either insecure or down right fearful make noise he would say, they often times act like caged animals who think hissing, growling, barking or yelping will keep a perceived enemy at bay. Those who can’t find satisfaction with their own lives will never look too deep to remedy their own issues but will chip away at others in hopes of dissuading honest and articulate. Be afraid of the fearful but never cower, he would add, be wary of them but never step aside.
Sarah Palin and Bill O’Reilly are two best selling authors (amazing how we define best selling or for that fact author) are marketing their new books each about the War on Christmas. This war, according to these two sad sack individuals, pits good Christian citizens against the marauding hordes of either atheists, liberals, or godless anarchists who of course do not accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. This war on Christmas is waged while every single mall in America is decked in red and green with tinsel out the kazoo, every radio station playing Christmas carols and some stations doing so 24 hours until December 26, main streets bouncing with Christmas lights of sleighs, stars and Noel strung from corner to corner and huge sequoia firs erected from Rockefeller Center, capitol buildings and the White House. This war against Christmas is waged because in a nation founded on freedom of religion and freedom FROM religion not a nationalized religion; wishes to include happy holidays along with Merry Christmas. These two bullies would have their lemming like insecure, unhappy in their own lives followers believe the fiction that this is a Christian nation and all true Patriots act accordingly. As my Dad would say Palin and O’Reilly never look to remedy a situation but prefer to defer and avoid.
I am afraid of people like Palin and O’Reilly because they are smart enough to understand the insecurities of the stupid, the dumb, the angry, the bigot and manipulate them. I am afraid of people like Palin and O’Reilly because they plot and scheme leading the loser to frantic and frenetic machinations. I am afraid of people like Palin and O’Reilly because they care little for facts but push the fiction knowing that lies are loved by the lonely. But as my dad told me I will not cower from these fools nor step aside. I believe the more we remain silent pretending that the stupid will dry up and diminish the more stupid we become. I believe that silence in so many cases does equal death; death of freedom, justice and equality. A war on Christmas, really, when Christmas shopping starts the same day as Thanksgiving, when most corporations tell their employees to take vacation time from Dec 15 to the first of the year. A war on Christmas when unless you live in a cave on the moon you are not bombarded by carols, decorations, or commercials in red, green, nativity scenes or Santa Clauses.
Sister Palin and Brother O’ Reilly the war is not on Christmas but the lack of meaning that Christmas has taken generated from hypocrites like you. There is a war on the poor, the elderly the unemployed, the ill all of whom should be basking in the glow of Christmas. There is war on the meaning of love, kindness, giving, sharing all of which the two of you consider anything but Christian. We all must be wary of your intentions they are sad, spiteful and sick. saying Merry Christmas is meaningless if the true meaning of the holiday is absent. You both, Sarah and Bill make that absence way too apparent.
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