WebNote: Pat Buchanan wrote this column back in December 2001. It is one of my favorites and is posted today as as we observe this Christmas of 2009.
And why should a tiny few who resent Christmas prevail in America over the great joyous majority who love it?
By Patrick J. Buchanan – December 21, 2001
When I was a boy, Kensington was a village half an hour north of Chevy Chase Circle where, inside an ice-cold armory, Catholic kids practiced basketball. Montgomery County was a bedroom suburb of D.C. Nothing beyond existed, except for the Rockville drive-in.
This fall, both precincts became world-famous as citadels of wacko liberalism. The Montgomery County Council voted to fine homeowners $500 who let cigarette smoke escape into neighbors’ houses. And the Kensington council voted to purge Santa from its 30-year-old tradition of lighting a pine tree in front of town hall.
Why did the Kensington Taliban expel St. Nick? Says the mayor: “Because two families felt that they would be uncomfortable with Santa Claus being a part of the event.” Ebeneezer Scrooge felt the same way.
Now this may not be in the Christmas spirit, but it needs to be said, as writer Tom Piatak says it so well in Chronicles. The spirit that seeks to purge Santa, and has already purged Christ from Christmas, is not a spirit of tolerance, but a spirit of “hatred, resentment and envy.”
And why should a tiny few who resent Christmas prevail in America over the great joyous majority who love it?
Multiculturalists say Christmas celebrations cause “non-Christians to feel ‘left out.’ I am skeptical, but even if the multiculturalists are right,” says Piatak, “how much should we worry about those who feel left out. … We cannot forever shield non-Christians from the reality that they are a minority in America, and suppressing the observances of the majority seems a high price to pay to allow overly sensitive souls to live in comfortable delusion.”
Moreover, he adds, “Christmas in America was never marked by pogroms or expressions of hatred, but by countless acts of charity and kindness. … The public celebration of Christmas was capable of being enjoyed by non-Christians as well as Christians, and almost everyone did enjoy at least some of it. I know of non-Christians who enjoy Christmas specials, Christmas movies, Christmas music.”
Under true tolerance, schoolchildren whose parents do not wish for them to take part in Christmas carols, pageants or plays would be exempt, but all non-Christians would be invited to join in.
But, as multiculturalists know, the result of free choice would be the almost-universal celebration of Christmas in public. And this they cannot abide, for their agenda is to purge from public life the Christian faith that gave birth to Western civilization. For they believe Western civilization was a blight upon mankind. As that great multiculturalist Jesse Jackson put it, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go!”
“Europe is the faith, the faith is Europe,” asserted the Catholic writer Hillaire Belloc. Piatak echoes Belloc. Christmas “has been the principal holiday of the world’s most creative civilization for over a millennium. It has inspired a profusion of art, architecture, literature and music; a love of Christmas can lead to a deeper love of our whole civilization. Giotto never painted a Kwanzaa scene, Bach did not write a Hanukkah oratorio, and Dickens did not pen ‘A Ramadan Carol.’ And no one comparable to them did, either.”
Indeed, the birth of Christ has inspired more great paintings, music and sculpture than any event in history. “Ultimately,” writes Piatak, “we should be free to celebrate Christmas publicly and joyously, because it is a great holiday, and because it is our holiday and one of the crowning glories of Western culture that gave birth to America and sustains us still.”
But why, then, are we not free to do so? Why may we not celebrate, as we did for 200 years, the birth of our Savior, the day God became man to open up for us the gates of heaven and bring mankind the hope of eternal salvation?
Answer: Because our Constitution has been hijacked by bigots in black robes, who perverted it to de-Christianize America. And we let them get away with it. Second, because Christians have become an intimidated lot, who will permit themselves to be pushed around and even permit their Savior to go uncelebrated for fear of being called insensitive. But if we do not proclaim the Son of God, will He proclaim us before the Father in heaven?
If Jesus was truly God, and the first Christmas was the day he was born of the Virgin Mary, and He came into the world for our salvation, what does it say about us that we would permit a handful of unhappy people to deny us the right to celebrate His birth in our public squares?
But, nevertheless, “God rest ye merry gentlemen, let nothing ye dismay,” not even the ACLU on this coming Christmas Day.
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“BRAVO”!……………We Christians have been trained to forget just how really “Pissed Off” Jesus was in the temple!………..But we can change.
Linda, thank you so much for remembering this column. This is a first time read for me and I can hear the anger, disappointment and sadness in every word that Pat writes.
Pat….let’s go have a drink, buddy.
I am old enough to remember when they took school prayer out of our public schools. It was the beginning of the school year of 1963 when it was announced to us that we would no longer begin the day with the Our Father, as we had up until then. Ten years later they banned the right to life of children in the womb. The link is clear: first don’t allow public acknowledgement of the Father that Christ taught us to pray to and at the same time ban Christ born of Mary. Then ban the right to life of all babies born of mothers. The activist Jews were in the forefront of this at all times. Father Feeney warned of this for years before that, and it came to pass. Multicultural secular anti-God, anti-Christ and anti-life is exactly what it is.
But Jesus Christ is still the Messiah and is still born of the Blessed Virgin Mary. And in God’s eyes babies always have the right to life.
See this link for Right to Life:
http://palestinecry.blogspot.com/2009/12/right-to-life-abortion-is-murder.html
PJB,
As a priest in apostolic succession, although not Roman Catholic, I agree with you absolutely.
I don’t mind Santa being sent back to the North Pole. Unlike simpler times, when the original “Miracle on 34th Street” was released to cinemas, Santa has now been hijacked by merchants and their suppliers pedalling their wares.
But I cannot see in a country where more than 80 percent of the population identifies themselves as Christians of one denomination or another, what is wrong with a manger scene on public property? And no, I would not object to a Menorah being there as well.
Christianity exists in many countries dating to the immediate aftermath of Jesus’ death and resurection and His asking the Father to send the Holy Spirit to the Apostles.
India had its own valid priests and churches long before the foreign missionaries arrived. That is true in the Middle East too, although Islamofascism has forced many to seek safer homes, such as the USA.
Christianity was alive and well in Northern Africa years ago. The patriarchate of Alexandria in Egypt is one of the most ancient.
Thank you Pat for an outstanding column, as valid today, perhaps more so, than when you originally wrote it.
Father Daniel Beegan S.T.D., D.Min.
Islamofacism is a racially and ethnically and religiously biased term of prejudice coined by JTA, JDA, JDL, B’nai Br’th and Constitutionally unlawful militarist Neo-CONfidence traitors to the United States Constitution to subvert the West against Islam and gain support for their Zionist war of conquest in the Middle East. 911 is another part of the lies they tell. Al Qaeda is a ridiculous term coined by the “Israelis” which in Arabic means the toilet.
Alan Guttmacher (a Jew) is the most responsible individual for the genocide that is ABORTION – the murder of babies in the womb.
S.T.D. is a Roman Catholic Church title meaning: The Doctor of Sacred Theology (S.T.D. Sacrae Theologiae Doctor) the final theological degree in the pontifical university system of the Catholic Church.
D.Min. is a Graduate Theological Foundation term applied to Rabbis, Left wing modernist Protestants and Apostate Catholics.
The Menorah is a vile symbol of Judaist genocidal oppression of people – especially the genocide against the Palestinians – in a Yad Vashem racist Satanic opprobation and blasphemy against God.
The xenophobic reaction of Europeans is unpardonable. If they weren’t committing suicide by abortion they wouldn’t be worried about populations pushing them out. If you let people come into your countries, and YOU DO BECAUSE of the work they perform, then you owe them respect. Zionism was conceived and hatched in Europe along with its parent: Communism. The United States is then expected to be the fall guy and the puppet stooge of the Zionists while the biggest genocidists, the Communists (1 billion murdered worldwide in a century), are considered to be within the political mainstream of European politics along with their clones, the Greens and various Socialists. All the while the Treaty of Rome (1956) based European Union Central Banks pillage the entire earth financially and stay secure behind their Freemason Colony, the former United States of America. It began centuries before by European princes who patronized the Jew usurers they employed to squeeze taxes out of peasants. It is the old “nobility,” the European houses of the Dragon – the Illuminati, who control the farce that is the United Nations and who taught the Zionists to be parasites, while embracing their Satanic Talmudic Lurianic Cabala in the form of Freemasonry. The evil that European elites have caused, actually dwarfs anything done to Palestine and the Middle East. That does not make the damage done to Palestine and the Middle East any less, it just says how much evil the Europeans have done – always with a smile.
I agree with Pat wholeheartedly. I was born in 1957. My memory regarding these things starts in the mid 1970’s when I became interested in politics, history, etc. I remember my parents being bothered then already that saying “Merry Christmas” was replaced with “Happy Holidays”. The media had started the idea that saying “Merry Christmas” to someone that isn’t Christian could be offensive to them. They started forcing local gov’ts and schools to remove anything that has to do with Christmas.
I grew up in an area with a big Jewish population – New York. Most of my friends at that time were Jewish, but I did not like what was going on either. In the Jewish religion, Chanukah is not their most important holiday, but because it falls during the same time period as Christmas, they created Chanukah cards and the expression Happy Chanukah. Now we have Happy Kwanzaa. Does the expression “get a life” mean anything to these resentful and jealous people? In Europe I believe people still greet each other by saying “Merry Christmas”. As I said my memory does not go back that far, but I believe people used to say “Merry Christmas” to one another here in the USA until the early 1970’s. If there is anyone out there older than I who could comment on that, I would be interested.
I’m not even religious. I hardly ever go to church, but I do like the Christmas traditions and I resent people that are so petty that they want to force Christmas out of society. I’m sure there are Jews and atheists that don’t have a problem saying “Merry Christmas” or having someone saying it to them, but the people it does bother have the biggest mouths and are making it an issue. I believe it is Jews that are offended by Christmas that made it an issue.
Here is something interesting to think about. Karl Marx was a German Jew. His father or grandfather was a rabbi. I believe it was Marx who said religion is the “opiate of the masses”. A central tenet of communism was that religion would be removed from society and every communist country I know of was officially atheist. In the Soviet Union, Jews held many top positions in the party and played a central part in installing communism in the Soviet Union. People like Trotsky (who was Jewish). Religion was removed from society in the Soviet Union and worship was forbidden. But who was it that objected, saying they were being oppressed by not being allowed to worship? In the 1970’s the Jackson Vanik amendment was passed in the USA linking trade with the Soviet Union (prohibiting exporting certain things to the SU) with allowing Soviet Jews to emigrate. If jews could emigrate, trade conditions would be eased. But who was it that wanted religion removed from society? Personally I believe Marx and Engels (Engels was not Jewish) were great intellectuals, but I don’t agree with their vision of what society should be like and I believe Jews wanted to remove religion from Soviet society (only to complain later about it).
In the early 1990’s the white gov’t was voted out of South Africa and majority rule was established (blacks make up over 95% of the population in South Africa). The press said “majority rule” was a central tenet of a democracy and it was a good thing. I agree and equal rights for minorities is also important for a democracy. But the last time I heard of a poll on this, 80% of the American people classified themselves as Christian and I don’t even know if that includes people like myself who enters a church once every few years. Shouldn’t there be majority rule in the USA?
There is a commercial on TV now where a bunch of energetic young people (a beautiful blonde girl stands out among the dancers) singing “Go Christmas, go Chanuka, go Kwanzaa”. I find this insulting. As I said, these small minded resentful people should get a life. In the meantime to the Jews that are not offended by Christmas, I would gladly say “Happy Chanukah” .
short and sweet screw the ACLU Merry Christmas and a happy New Year
Greetings.I am wondering what ever happened to the separation of church and state? If you are a strong Christian you don’t need anyone’s approval only the lords. The best thing about this country is that we are a melting pot of many races and religions.I think we should think of our religions like we do our sex lives. We should keep them private. They are no ones business!!
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Super Great article Pat, I was a little late reading it (its after Christmas 12/26) but I appreciated every single thing you said, and early Merry Christmas (for 2010.) /Big grin
The non believers are winning…the power of the cabal is relentless.
Wishing a merry Christmas to all!!
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