Sermon On The Blog: North Pole To Be Replaced By Bethlehem

I'm not kidding, kiddies. Santa is out, and Baby Jesus is in:

Redirecting Christmas From North Pole to Bethlehem

By Adelle M. Banks

Standing next to plastic figures of Mary, baby Jesus and Joseph, two ministers and three members of Congress took turns at a microphone this month to announce a new initiative called "Project Nativity."

"Our hope and prayer is that over the next three to four years, hundreds of nativity scenes will begin to dot the landscape of America once again," said the Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition. He said he hoped the temporary nativity scene on a terrace of the Capitol would serve as a "template" for similar efforts.

His project, which encourages Christians to seek permits for nativity scenes in front of public buildings, is just one example of multiple efforts to "take Christmas back." In recent years, there have been rumors of a "War on Christmas" and actual skirmishes over the use of the word in the public square and at the retail counter.

What a crock!

Here's how stupid ideas like these gain support:

The initiatives stretch across the Atlantic to northern Ireland, where Catholic schoolteacher Kathleen Darragh wrote her own version of "12 Days of Christmas" that is being distributed by Illinois-based ACTA Publications.

Writing with her schoolchildren in mind, her poem begins: "On the first day of Christmas, our true God sent to us . . . Our Saviour Baby Jesus."

"The most excited talk they have is about Santa, and I sort of thought we have to get this idea across to them that Christmas is really about Christ and keeping the Christ in Christmas," she said in a telephone interview.

Thus Endeth Today's Sermon.

Go forth today and ask yourself two questions:

1. Who are the three unnamed wiseguy members of congress who support this idiotic idea?

2. Do you want the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade to end with Baby Jesus, Mary & Joseph?

Inflatable Baby Jesus and kneeling Santa companies just want a piece of the action, y'all. And they'll take advantage of the spiritually-challenged to get their products marketed and sold.

I mean it, damn it!


Best bar bet in the world: Delilah didn't do it.
Judges 16:19-- And she made him (Samson) sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head.