Commentary from WorldNetDaily
By Chuck Norris
Posted: December 28, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern
© 2009
In my last column, "Away with the manger," I predicted that the religious content of President Obama's Christmas address to the nation was going to be the weakest in presidential history.
I also mentioned that, in the first year of his presidency, "Every time President Obama has had an opportunity to stand for Christianity in any way, he has not only denied it but disdained it." Any chance he has to dive deeper into its creed, he rises to the surface and changes the subject.
I was correct on both accounts, and he proved it (again) last week.
But never did I expect to hear Obama during Christmas week dodge children on the main message of Christmas and then teach them a revised version.
First, unlike preceding presidents who took pride in America's Judeo-Christian heritage and confessed the nature of Christ as Savior, our president (with the first lady at his side) brought the briefest and most impotent religious admonition in the history of presidential Christmas addresses on Dec. 24, describing the incomparable Bethlehem miracle as merely containing a benign "message of peace and brotherhood that continues to inspire more than 2,000 years after Jesus' birth."
The presidential yuletide moment of the week and season, however, dipped far further under the radar just a few days before on Dec. 22. It was Obama's visit Monday to the Boys and Girls Club in Washington, D.C., during which he had a free exchange (non-teleprompter) discussion with the children about Christmas. All seemed to be going fine until after the president read "The Polar Express" and led a discussion on what the kids wanted from Santa, when a few children brought up the real reason for the season.
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Commentary from WorldNetDaily
By Vox Day
Posted: December 21, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern
© 2009
The commercialization of Christmas has long been a concern for American Christians, and the overt attempts to secularize the happy holiday have been a minor annoyance in recent years. Even Garrison Keillor, no staunch right-wing Christian fundamentalist, recently complained about the continuing attempts of non-Christians to subvert, co-opt or simply join in the festive Christian spirit of Christmas. And while I can't help but agree with him on the aesthetic abomination of unitarians attempting to rewrite "Silent Night," I think it is a mistake to bar non-Christians from joining us in celebrating the birth of Man's Lord and Savior.
And if they don't wish to celebrate it, so be it. Let them go to work on Friday and pretend Christmas is a day like any other, if they like.
For we were all non-Christians once. Regardless of whether one is raised in a Christian home and played a starring role as Baby Jesus in the church nativity play or in an atheist house where the only shrines are to Karl Marx, Karl Popper or Chairman Mao, sooner or later one must make the conscious choice to humble oneself before the King of Kings and accept that he is, in fact, Lord and Savior. For most people, particularly successful and intelligent people, it is not reason, nor science, nor evil that stands in the way of accepting Jesus Christ; it is pride. And it is, I think, perhaps a little easier to humble yourself and repent of your misdeeds if you understand that the Prince of Peace was not afraid to humble himself so men might be saved.
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