I don’t think there’s any attack against
Christmas.
I think that seeing including other people
in a seasonal joy, how can that be seen as
an attack?
Maybe the greatest speech of our time, most
probably the greatest speech of our time,
is Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech.
What Martin Luther King does in that speech,
Martin Luther King was a religious man.
Martin Luther King was a Reverend.
He says in that speech, he doesn’t say this
is just for Christians, he says it’s for
everybody.
He doesn’t use the word “Christian”
anywhere in the speech.
He does refer to a God, he does say: “Free
at last, Lord, Lord,” but he is quoting
a Spiritual.
He was a preacher who spoke in churches and
yet when it was important to bring other people
in, the, I have a Dream speech speaks to me,
it speaks to atheists.
And I don’t care if you’re talking about
Walgreen’s, if you’re talking about sending
out Christmas cards or your setting up something
on a town square.
Why do you want to leave people out?
Why is it considered an attack to say “holidays,”
to say “seasonal?”
I mean, don’t you want other people to join
you in joy?
Why are you excluding other people?
I don’t think there should be any sort of,
you’re not allowed to say Christmas.
I think you’re fine putting up your trees.
I think you’re fine talking about Santa
Claus and you’re fine talking about Jesus
Christ, about equal to me.
But why leave me out?
Why do that?
What’s your motive?
And trying to turn around a “we want to
leave you out,” into “why are you forcing
us to not have our joy,” is insanity.
It’s backwards.
So sure, sure, say Christmas, but you’re
leaving out right about now close to 30 percent
of the population of the United States of
America that you are telling, I’m not talking
to you.
Why can’t you just say, it’s a beautiful
season, we all love each other.
Let’s all have a good time.
Why is that terrible?
I also think that the war on – I mean, I
would love to take the Christ out of Christmas.
I mean, I would love that.
I would love there to be a time of the year
where everybody came together.
I mean, there’s something that’s happened
in this country over the past, well 100 years,
but really over the past 50 years, where this
word “Christian” has become more important.
The early part of the 20th century, the late
part of the 19th century, you had Baptists,
you has Southern Baptists, you had Methodists,
you had Congregationalists, you had Catholics,
you had, you know, all these different kind
of little sects.
You had Baptists and Southern Baptists and
then Joe’s Baptist and you know, Bill’s
Bait Shop and Baptist, you know, you had all
these little groups.
And they were all kind of warring.
And then in many people’s opinion, in order
to fight abortion, to get a consensus and
a strong group to fight that, they kind of
adopted this word “Christian,” which isn’t
used much, even before Jimmy Carter, you know.
The word, “Christian” to count the Catholics
and the Protestants and all the Protestants
all together and that allows them to say stuff
like Christian Nation and allowed them to
say stuff.
Because if you take each sect individually,
well, non-religious is one of the biggest
ones.
You have to do all of the Christians together,
throw them all together to get this 60, 70
percent.
So I just think they should keep going.
Why stop at Christian?
Why not keep going to American?
Why not make the Christmas time of the year
an American holiday and really include all
Americans?
And then we keep going, why not include all
people.
I mean, I don’t see why you want to close
people out.
It’s your right to close people out; it’s
your right to have a club that people can’t
belong to.
But, why do you want to do it?
Why not just give a smile and welcome us in?
Welcome us into your stores, make a buck.
Welcome us into your homes, have a laugh.
You know, welcome us everywhere.
And doing holiday instead of Christmas brings
everybody in.
Doesn’t seem that terrible, but I certainly
don’t think there should be anything legal
stopping people from saying all the Christmas
stuff they want.
I am more in favor of freedom of religion
than anyone I’ve ever met.
I am – I think you should have all the prayer
meetings you want all the time with any religion
you have.
I’d rather you didn’t do it on my dime.
I’d rather you do it on your own with the
people that agree with you.
