by Anthony Perlingos

Created on: November 21, 2009   Last Updated: November 23, 2009

I have always loved the holiday season , it has been my favorite time of year even after the trauma of discovering there was no Santa . As a youngster living in Virginia I fondly remember us kids hopping in the car to view the Christmas lights and Nativity scenes that were displayed for one and all to see in brightly lit displays on the peoples lawns at the malls and the good feeling of everyone saying " MERRY CHRISTMAS " to one and all in our neighborhood .

WHAT ? A NATIVITY SCENE ? WHY THAT IS AN OUTRAGE ! And it is precisely this type of thinking that has been the impetus for my latest article here . There are voices who claim a war on Christmas , and there are those who will tell you that this is just more Christian fanaticism . I am here to merely give my observations and experiences that have formed my opinion in this area .

As a child saying Merry Christmas to someone was nothing that you had to give a second thought too . It was as automatic as a kneejerk reflex to do it and to the younger readers who might be viewing this it may startle you to know no one was offended . Christ was a major part of the holiday celebration and singing Christmas carols in the neighborhood was a joyous activity that almost all the kids in our neighborhood participated in with unbridled enthusiasm . Among our favorites was "Silent Night " and in that carol that we sang at the top of our little lungs was the verse " Christ the Saviour is born " . And you know what ? No one got offended and nobody suffered from some traumatic experience because they did not feel they were getting religion shoved down their throat , the common argument of the secular / progressive Ideology .

It has been a slow but ever increasing pace to shun Christmas and turn it into nothing more then a winter holiday with a good reason to drink heavily alcohol laden egg nog . These days Christmas seems to be about a Gap commercial and an Xbox in the stockings . And I for one am sad and find it truly pathetic that Christmas was seen as not all inclusive and completely exclusionary . I am just curious who put that lump of coal in our stockings and worse , we bought it as a society for the most part . To me Christmas and the good feelings that it used to bring was meant as an all inclusive statement , not one to be picked apart by the politically correct who I am convinced are the modern day grinches who stole Christmas from the good townfolk of Whoville . Christmas has become a PC beer commercial and we are

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