Kick back and enjoy this holiday season, whether you
celebrate Christmas, Hannukah or the Winter Solstice, so we can renew ourselves
for the struggles ahead.
As Americans, we find ourselves in a very dark period: a
government run amok; a band of deceitful, war-mongering criminals in the White
House, who are using any and all excuses to take away our freedoms; an economy
in tatters, right-wing fascists who call themselves Christians seeking to impose
their beliefs on us all by creating a theocratic state; Zionists and their
supporters who label non-Jews anti-Semites or, in the case of Jews, self-hating
Jews, for daring to question their actions and pronouncements or speak out
against the Israeli government's heinous actions. Thanks to the terrorists in
Washington and their fundamentalist Christian and Zionist supporters, we are
fast becoming a house not merely divided, but shattered. If you doubt this, when
was the last time you heard anyone say the word brotherhood?
Brotherhood means respect and tolerance for all people,
regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or politics. It
means acting with civility.
But there is very little civility today as the victimizers
revel in the role of victims. For instance, Christians who would impose a
theocracy on us claim that all Christians are being persecuted. Imagine,
persecuted when churches dot the landscape and more spring up like mushrooms
daily. Are they trying to tell us that thousands of these churches are merely
tax dodges and a way to extract taxpayer money from George W. Bush's
unconstitutional faith-based initiative? Or is the persecution nonsense merely
another marketing scheme to get their nescient followers to part with more
money?
Let's not leave out the latest marketing ploy: the “war on
Christmas.” In their “panties in a wad” stagecraft, the Christian theocrats, in
performances worthy of Oscars, have turned the season of goodwill into a
nightmare with their ridiculous claim that secularists are out to deprive
Christians of celebrating the birthday of Jesus Christ, all because businesses,
wishing to encompass people of every belief and no belief, use the phrase “Happy
holidays,” rather than “Merry Christmas.” This has nothing to do with political
correctness. It is a matter of politeness, something the Christian theocrats
disdain.
It is time for all decent and sane Americans to rise up
against this madness before we all are swamped by it and find ourselves living
in a theocratic nation that will make Saudi Arabia and Iran look like liberal
countries. Worse, these theocratic Christians, who go by the labels
Reconstructionists, Dominionists, Christian Identity, have made it clear that
anyone who refuses to subscribe to their biblical view is to be executed —
preferably by stoning.
This is a harsh message in this season, but it's one that has
to be said. We are not against Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists,
Wiccans, atheists or any other group. We are against murderous despots out to
control us all and destroy the planet, too. History is soaked with the blood of
their victims. We cannot allow it to happen again.
As the Chinese proverb says, “It is better to light a candle
than curse the darkness.” So light those candles and let us get on with the task
of reclaiming America. Together, we can do it.Merry Christmas! Happy Hannukah!
Joyful Winter Solstice! Happy Kwanzaa! Happy Holidays!

Happy New Year!