The war on Christmas is over

As John Stewart hilariously pointed out, Christmas has damn near colonized Thanksgiving and conservatives *still* think its under attack…

libfreeordie on December 10, 2012 at 10:56 PM

Listen, I am an atheist and a libertarian, but there IS a concerted effort by some on the Left to marginalise and/or destroy ALL symbols or expressions of Christianity in the United States. The so-called “wall between church and state” was not erected until Everson in 1947. The Founders never intended to keep religion out of the public square. The First Amendment was written to keep the nation free of a CofE-style national church and to keep the government out of the state. For a Supreme Court case that will curl your hair, as well as explain some of the history for you, go read Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 457 (1892). Consider the fact that the Supreme Court, 120 years ago, declared that Pennsylvania was founded as a “Christian nation.” Here is some of what the Court wrote, but you should read the entire opinion:

“If we examine the constitutions of the various states, we find in them a constant recognition of religious obligations. Every Constitution of every one of the forty-four states contains language which, either directly or by clear implication, recognizes a profound reverence for religion, and an assumption that its influence in all human affairs is essential to the wellbeing of the community.”

“There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning. They affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons. They are organic utterances. They speak the voice of the entire people. While because of a general recognition of this truth the question has seldom been presented to the courts, yet we find that in Updegraph v. Com., 11 Serg. & R. 394, 400, it was decided that, ‘Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the common law of Pennsylvania.”

“The first charter of Virginia, granted by King James I in 1606, after reciting the application of certain parties for a charter, commenced the grant in these words:

“We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet government; DO, by these our Letters-Patents, graciously accept of, and agree to, their humble and well intended Desires.”

The fundamental orders of Connecticut, under which a provisional government was instituted in 1638-39, commence with this declaration:

“Forasmuch as it hath pleased the Allmighty God by the wise disposition of his diuyne pruidence so to Order and dispose of things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and vppon the River of Conectecotte and the Lands thereunto adioyneing; And well knowing where a people are gathered togather the word of God requires that to mayntayne the peace and vnion of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Gouerment established according to God, to order and dispose of the affayres of the people at all seasons as occation shall require; doe therefore assotiate and conioyne our selues to be as one Publike state or Comonwelth, and doe, for our selues and our Successors and such as shall be adioyned to vs att any tyme hereafter, enter into Combination and Confederation togather, to mayntayne and presearue the liberty and purity of the gospell of our Lord Jesus weh we now prfesse, as also the disciplyne of the Churches, weh according to the truth of the said gospell is now practiced amongst us.”

In the charter of privileges granted by William Penn to the province of Pennsylvania, in 1701, it is recited:

“Because no People can be truly happy, though under the greatest Enjoyment of Civil Liberties, if abridged of the Freedom of their Consciences, as to their Religious Profession and Worship; And Almighty God being the only Lord of Conscience, Father of Lights and Spirits, and the Author as well as Object of all divine Knowledge, Faith, and Worship, who only doth enlighten the Minds, and persuade and convince the Understandings of People, I do hereby grant and declare.the Constitution of Illinois, 1870:

“We, the people of the State of Illinois, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political, and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and transmit the same unimpaired to succeeding generations,” etc.

As late as 1833, Massachusetts had a state church and attendance was mandatory or fines were assessed unless citizens fell within one of the very limited exemptions.

When a nursing home must remove a Christmas tree that is enjoyed by its residents and no one has ever complained about it simply because 1 person is “offended,” then we have a problem. The First Amendment doesn’t apply (It’s “CONGRESS shall make NO law establishing…” not NURSING HOMES shall have NO Christmas trees…). The tyranny of the minority is every bit as objectionable, dangerous and intolerant as the tyranny of the majority.

Resist We Much on December 10, 2012 at 11:16 PM

Make sure that you tell ‘em that it isn’t kinda, sorta EQUIVALENT to the 4th of July.

Resist We Much on December 11, 2012 at 1:12 AM