Happy Holidays!

With some Christians making such a big stink about the words "Merry Christmas" not being used enough in the retail industry and on cards from the prez, and the calls for boycotts, and O'Reilly's "bringing horror" to those who don't straighten up, it seems to me that all of this smells of another exclusive club thing. It teaches children and other people that an all inclusive "Happy Holidays" isn't okay - which would be considerate to others who don't happen to be Christian.

The war on Christianity is some made up thing. Get over it too. Get to the roots of your faith and realize that all this holiday shopping and overspending and stress isn't what the birth of your savior is about. How about this: put down your pocketbooks and just have a good family or friend get together, go to church and pray or whatever you do on Christmas eve or day and celebrate the season for its true meaning. Spend it with people you love and care about and get the stupid crass commercialism of getting 100's of gifts for your over stimulated unimaginative kids out of the holiday. How bout one gift per person? How about limit the relatives from buying two, three, four gifts for the kids, and all the uncles and aunts buying buying buying. What the f*&k does this have to do with Jesus' birth anyway? Isn't faith supposed to be a personal thing with you and your god?

These Christians who feel they are under seige need to work on the whole inclusiveness thing a bit too. But then again, I think their bible says if you don't believe in Jesus and you aren't "saved", you will rot in hell or suffer some less fortunate fate in their made up after life.

I thought all the crass commercialism is what Jerry Falwell and his ilk would be denouncing. Oh, but that would mean that our economy would suffer, and if that happens, people might not fork over their hard earned money to him. That would be bad, now wouldn't it?