A community declines when the majority of its citizens become selfish, and under this influence it slowly dismantles all the restraints upon self-indugence established by manners, customs, traditions and laws. As each subsequent generation of selfish citizens inherits control of the community, it takes its opportunity to abandon more of the irksome restraints that genius and wisdom has installed. The proponents of this social demolition achieve their irrational purpose by publicly embracing absurdity through slogans, while vilifying any who do not support their stance. The purpose of the slogan is to enshrine irrational fears, or fancies, as truth through the use of presumptuous words. Now, early in the 20th century, the results of being bourgeois (retaining traditional notions), is being labeled racist, sexist, radical right, etc. with the risk of losing a job, your reputation, being jostled in the street, being subject to judicial penalty and death threats. And it is this extremity of reaction that has won media attention and the name Political Correctness, though the reaction will become even more unpleasant with the next generation.
AUSTIN, TX – Attorneys for the complaintive, filed a suit in the Austin Federal Court today seeking to prevent Santa Claus from making his list and then checking it twice. In addition and as part of this same suit, the complaintive added a secondary point to this immediate injunction against this well known Christmas icon asking that the court…
- Effectively bans all traditional practices of Mr. Claus claiming..."such practices determine behavioral patterns that produce irreversible trauma to the individual's self-esteem when labeled good or bad.” The suit goes on to ask the federal judge to hereby order, “Mr. Claus to cease and desist all repetitive and duplicative list-checking activity, and certify the original list is to be submitted, without amendment, alteration, deletion, or other unnecessary modification." “There are no standards for deciding who is naughty, and who is nice. Actions are totally arbitrary and capricious. How many more times does he need to check? This checking, checking, and re-checking over and over again must stop now."
- “Mr. Claus to stop referring to this December Holiday as ‘Christmas’, declaring that “people need to say “Have a Happy Holiday" in all public areas,” thus separate and/or remove any suggestion of Christ from Christmas" on the ground for separation of church and state.
Senator Edward Kennedy continued the arguement citing...“the potential for unauthorized list tampering suggests improprieties that are certainly questionable” and “that needs to fall under Homeland Security.” Senator Kennedy goes on to state..."Their security is really awful”, said Mr. Kennedy. "My mother just walked right in, told 'em she was Mrs. Claus and they didn't check her ID. No wonder there is questions associated with a list."
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was quick to respond to this latest development and plans to lead his protesters from Florida to the North Pole via dog sled. Jackson said. “Santa Claus could not be reached for comment”, but a Spokes-elf said he was "deeply distressed by news of the pending legal action against him.” "He's losing weight, and he hasn't said 'Ho Ho' for days," said the spokesman-elf. "He's just not feeling jolly." As for the concept of Christmas, the elf spokesmen stated that “Mr. Claus will continue calling this season Christmas until the court rules otherwise.”
Although this article is just made up for the purpose of this example...it maybe very closer to the truth in today's society. Some times “political correctness” just simply goes too far.” It seems like our country is being bombarded daily by extremist affixed with one agenda...to disrupt our faith based society and our normal way of life. The major question at hand...when will the Christians stand-up and be counted? Maybe it will take something larger then just questioning Christ in Christmas. Maybe it will take another physical attack like 911 to get people thinking about their relationship with Christ. Persecution can come in all sizes; it seems like only after it gains strength and becomes nation news do people really notice that their rights are being changed.
Taking Christ out of Christmas is yet just the beginning...tomorrow, you may not be allowed to attend church or even carry a Bible. O' we tell ourselves, "that can't happen here in our country"; but tell that to the many other countries around the world whos people are being persecuted; ask them how it got started!
A community declines when the majority of its citizens become selfish, and under this influence it slowly dismantles all the restraints upon self-indugence established by manners, customs, traditions and laws. As each subsequent generation of selfish citizens inherits control of the community, it takes its opportunity to abandon more of the irksome restraints that genius and wisdom has installed. The proponents of this social demolition achieve their irrational purpose by publicly embracing absurdity through slogans, while vilifying any who do not support their stance. The purpose of the slogan is to enshrine irrational fears, or fancies, as truth through the use of presumptuous words.
