Merry Damn Christmas

On December 25 the world celebrates Christmas. At least the Christian part of the world celebrates Christmas while the rest of the world acknowledges that the Christian’s are celebrating for the day.

Without Christmas in the US, the retailers would be lost. They do much more than 1/12 of their business in the month prior to the holiday. And yet, with the preponderance of shoppers buying Christmas rather than Hanukah or Kwanzaa presents, they insist on Happy Holidays. I guess that’s okay since they do want to sell for the several days of each season. And Kwanzaa is now almost thirty years old and so it is an established holiday.

But there is a push for total separation of church and state. Especially by people who want things like the Ten Commandments removed from federal buildings the words “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance. If these people want separation of church and state, then I believe we should allow for complete separation of church and state.

That means that Christmas is just another day. That should mean that every single federal, state, and local government office, including Congress and the Post Office, along with sanitation workers and libraries – all those public institutions run for and by tax dollars, should remain open. After all, without religion, it’s just another day.

I would like to see a national push to have this become law. If we want separation of church and state, it evidently cannot be a halfway thing. It means that Christmas is a private holiday. It isn’t real. It doesn’t exist in secular public domain. It is just a concept created by heathen Christians. It should be shunned, eschewed, ignored, and disregarded by all government workers.

We may have to look into government offices being closed on Sunday, the Sabbath, but I think that should come after this most egregious lack of separation between the religious and the secular is corrected. I am sure that all government workers, especially those who are vocal about the need for separation of church and state, will gladly come to work on Monday, December 25, 2006.