Gary Bergeron
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The “War on Christmas” brings back a memory every year now.
Back in 1968, I was 10 yrs. old. My mother, her sister, and my grandmother would pool the little money they had to buy a box of assorted Christmas cards. It was my job to hand out the cards and enjoyed looking at the pictures. My favorite ones were the kids sledding down snowy hills; We didn’t get snow down in Louisiana. The other pictures had “Season’s Greetings”, “Happy Holiday”, “Have a joyous season”. Other cards had Jesus and the Mother Mary. Merry Christmas, and all that.
Now, my family were devout Christians. Raging Catholics. Bottles of Holy Water, blessed medals of all the saints, and framed pictures of Jesus everywhere!….No outrage. There wasn’t : “Oh! Look Iola! This one says Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas!”….Nothing. Perhaps their faith was strong and today faith is paper thin or it could be that we live in a 500 channel universe with a prominent social media?
I like Christmas. I get to get drunk with friends! 🙂
@ StevelnCO, yes it is a good article. Christians seem to lack the ability to understand the damage they do at times. It is like they have no emotional awareness of how their words and acts affect others. It is because “religion poisons everything” that their sense of empathy is warped. Many see the suffering of others as something that will be rewarded in the future rather than needing action now.
“Why religion is losing” was familiar territory for moi….
When I was 11 yrs. old, I asked a question to a catholic nun after catechism class and her answer was a very hard, roundhouse, coming from wayyyy back there, slap on the face. If a desk had not been on my left side, I would have hit the floor.
This woman remains in my mind as the meanest person I’ve ever known….but, I’m thankful every day for that slap…because it opened my mind and I began to question the catholic church and it’s practices.
Thank you, Sister Annabel…
