Christmas has been under attack in our country for several decades of this I have little doubt. From the Merry Xmas signs which look funny anyway which remove "Christ" from Christmas literally and replace it with "X" to the latest craze "Happy Holidays!" instead of "Merry Christmas!" in all the advertisements. The question is how important is that fight and is it the real problem.
Several years ago my throat started aching and I had a headache and a cough. Someone pointed me to the Tyenol Cold and Sinus. Well this stuff was amazing. I took it for over a week and when I would take it the pain would go away and everything was just fine. Then I woke up one morning and happened to look at my throat in the mirror. It was really really bad. I had a serious visible problem and I was quite sick and all that time I had been covering it up fighting symptoms and doing a very good job of it. Instead though, I had gotten more sick and if I hadn't looked in the mirror I never would have seen the real problem.
It could be said that there is now a generation in this country that wants to take Christ out of Christmas and forget the religious aspects of Christmas. Sure I will agree that this is true enough, but I think that this is just the headache that is a symptom of the real problem. I would assert to you that we have far fewer Christians in this country that people believe and that they have raised up a generation in which, there is plenty of protest against attacks on Christmas, truly that backlash is just another in a long list of things that we can do to make ourselves look or feel like Christians. Today its commonplace for all manner of excessive activities to be celebrated: living in sin like(living together in fornication or homosexuality), drunkedness, lying and deceit, profanity, boredome(not being able to settle down), spending(massive credit problems among our common people), and one of the biggest excesses(Christmas time when we eat, drink, and spend in excess) and so called Christians are spending their time protesting about Christ being taken out of Christmas when they do little to deal with any other problems. These protest are superficial when truly God fearing Christians know that the true trouble is that God judges the heart.
What do I mean? I mean that having a generation rise up that allows Christmas to have some of Christ taken out of it is minimally important truly, when compared to the fact that we now also have a generation that in fact does not fear God and his imminent judgement.
Just something to think about :)
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