A Politically Correct Christmas?
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IV Leader, Dec 7, 2006
Roughly two thousand years ago, a child was born whose
life would irreversibly alter the future of human history.
His legacy created empires and destroyed civilizations; it
shook the foundations of government and stoked the fires of religious contempt.
His life and death gave birth to some of the greatest acts of
human kindness and provoked mankind’s greatest acts of atrocity. This man’s
birth is celebrated today by Christians of every color and race, in a festival
known around the world as Christmas.
However, today it seems that the association of this child
and this holiday has become rather vague. Today many find it dangerous to
connect the birth of Jesus with the holiday known as Christmas. Considered by
some to be culturally inconsiderate, the birth of Jesus of Nazareth has been
exiled from its own holiday.
Sterilized by corporate America and painted over by the
media, today’s Christmas hardly deserves its own name, a name that even derives
itself from the man whose birth it celebrates.
Whether you consider Jesus a man, a prophet, or a savior,
Christmas is and always will be the celebration of his birth.
The rejection of such an association is an insult to the
Christian faith and is blatant disrespect towards another culture and people.
Religious tension and discrimination are already tightened
enough without society’s misguided attempts at political correctness. Religious
celebrations of every culture and denomination seem to converge at this time of
year. Religion is unavoidable.
It seems a moot point to generalize these celebrations in an
effort to be politically correct. These holidays separate and join us; they
remind us of whom we are and emphasize parts of us we wish to be.