There is no War on Christmas. Read this great story of all faiths coming together around the Christian Holiday. Christians need to take offense to rampant poverty, materialism, and consumerism, not the Happy Holidays vs. Merry Christmas crap.
Rachel Held Evans wrote the best Christian perspective about this on the web found HERE.
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I’m not sure when or why it happened, but in some circles, entitlement has been declared December’s Christian virtue. Suddenly it’s not enough that Americans spend millions of dollars each year marking the birth of Jesus. Now we’ve got to have a “Merry Christmas” banner in front of every parade and an inflatable manger scene outside of every courthouse… or else we’ll make a big stink about it in the name of Jesus. Having opened the gift of the incarnation—of God with us—we’ve peered inside and shrieked, “This is not enough! Where are the accessories? We want more!”
This is a strange way to honor Jesus, “who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped…but made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant.” (Philippians 2:8)
Jesus didn’t arrive with a parade. He arrived in a barn.
Jesus wasn’t embraced by the government. He was crucified by it.
Jesus didn’t demand that his face be etched into coins or his cross be carried like a banner into war. He asked that those who follow him be willing to humble themselves to the point of death, to serve rather than be served, to give rather than receive.
What a tragedy that history’s greatest act of humility is being marked by petty acts of entitlement and pride.