Merry Christmas to all!

As a Jew I am offended by this attack by the left against Christmas. As a proud Jew, I am quite secure with my belief system. My world view does not come crumbling down when I see a Nativity scene or if some one greets me with a warm "Merry Christmas". As a sign of civility, I respond back in kind.

Public school teachers are being disciplined for greeting students with "Merry Christmas". Department stores not mentioning the word Christmas, while pushing their "Holiday" sale garbage on us. State Colleges banning any mention of "Christ" in Christmas:

University mandates 'Merry ------mas' as holiday greeting

What is this SHIGAON!!!(Craziness)

In fact, I find the greeting "Happy Holidays" more offensive. If you think about it, it is an arrogant statement. It denies the existence of all other holidays throughout the year. During the holidays of Easter and Passover, which fall roughly at the same time in the spring, I do not hear the same "Happy Holidays" clamor. So why should Christmas be any different??

The people that get offended are usually the secular humanists, whether they be born Christian or Jew. Their ultimate goal is to see all religions banned from the public and private arena. They cloak their agenda behind "separation of church and state". Unfortunately, many people believe that this clause is in the Constitution. It is not.

The phrase was pulled out of context from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists Association. The First Amendment was meant to ensure freedom OF religion not freedom FROM religion. It was never the intention of the founding fathers to prevent citizens of this country from expressing their religious convictions in public.

The goal of these secular humanists, i.e. socialists, is to eventually ban all forms of religious expression in both public and private domains. Socialists consider private property rights to be a great injustice to the "have nots". Their goal is to transfer all property to the state, and therefore making all property public. Once that is accomplished all religious expression would be banned under the guise of "separation of church and state".

All devout Jews should be concerned. During Hanukkah, we celebrate the Maccabees victory over the secular humanists of the past, the Hellenist Greeks. They tried to force all Jews in the Land of Israel to abandon the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and to adopt their perversion. The attack against Judaism has not ceased. For instance, these secular fundamentalists are not to happy about Kosher labeling and the kosher slaughtering process. We Jews should not be surprised when they start to push the banning of these practices. Many on the left consider teaching Torah to our kids a form of child abuse. In Israel today, the same secular forces that wreak havoc in the US are pushing their poison on Israelis. Truth and all that is good is irrelevant to these people.

As a Proud Jew, who does not celebrate Christmas, I say MERRY CHRISTMAS to all my Christian brothers and sisters.

S.D. for Two Joe Schmoes