The Winter Solstice used to be celebrated by many cultures thousands of years ago. Basically, the celebration consisted in asking the many Gods that they used to have in those times, to make the sun come back. Then, during that time of the year, the son of God was born, The Messiah !. His name, Jesus Christ, and his simple life and love changed the world.

 

Just like the sun, he is the light of the world and because of the universal appeal of his teachings, most of the world decided to change the name of the season in his honor and call it, the Christmas Season. And just like the three kings brought him gifts, we developed the tradition of giving each other gifts. Some how, Santa Claus got in the picture and the commercialization of the season got started.

 

Since then, non-Christians have tried to minimize the importance of his birth and developed their own celebrations during or around the Christmas Day.

 

We must respect everyone’s right to celebrate anything they want, for whatever reason they wish, but not to the extent of diluting the significance of the birth of the son of God, who died a horrible death for our sake. In the U.S., Jews celebrate Hanukah, African Americans Kwanzaa and many others.

 

However, Hanukah celebrates a military victory of the Jews against the Greeks, that is a wonderful reason to celebrate as a nation, Israel, but not as a faith.

 

Then, we have Kwanzaa, invented by Ron Karenga in 1966, branding it a black alternative to Christmas. The idea was to celebrate the end of what he considered the Christmas-season exploitation of African Americans. Kwanzaa is not celebrated anywhere else in the world.

 

I don’t blame other cultures for this – I blame the damned armies of politically correct neophytes in the U.S. that think everything has to be equal. The shit disturbers that decide that a “manhole” cover needed a new name as not to offend women.

 

Those idiots that call their girlfriends “life partners” because to do anything else would be degrading to women for some reason. The people that use terms like “neocon” and “hidden agenda” to further their “politically correct goals and initiatives”.

 

They cloak themselves in the flag of human rights while extinguishing them at every turn. It is understandable to include other religions and cultures in our nation, but downgrading Christmas for the sake of some groups, is not the solution.