Do we need a National Holiday to celebrate Christmas?

With the push in recent years to secularize the National Holiday we all know as Christmas and disassociate it in the public mind with the birth of Jesus Christ and the Christian faith, I for one am in favor of having it struck from the National Calendar and we Christian’s will celebrate it on our own way just like the Jews in this country celebrate Hanukkah each year.

What is my reasoning for this you ask?, well my position is if we can’t recognize the day for what it has been for decades in this country I don’t need any Happy Holidays just so the retailers can make a killing selling items for a holiday they don’t want to recognize. As for all the Happy Holiday signs that have taken the place of Merry Christmas, I think I’ll contact the ACLU and complain that I don’t like the use of the word Holiday since it is actually telling me to have a Happy Holy Day which is a violation of the nonexistent Church and State clause.

Do I sound like a nut? well I’m not, at least I don’t think I am. I just think if they want to take away our Holiday, lets take away theirs and see who cries the loudest. I’ll bet all that money disappearing from the coffers of the manufacturers and retailers would cause a massive outcry to our national leaders much more than the Christian voice seems to be accomplishing. I do not need a National Holiday to Celebrate the birth of my Savior we should be doing that each time we gather together for worship just as we celebrate and remember his death, burial and resurrection. Lets take back Christmas for ourselves and leave the world to figure out what to do about their nonexistent holiday. I know we will still rejoice.

Pastor Dennis Miller
The Orchard