We'll Reeducate the Superstitious Peasants, Yet!

1960's Soviet Propaganda Poster: "Religious Rites, Young and Old, Break the Ties!"

Religious freedom? Well, at least these people are finally being honest about what they believe. One can read much about the forced secularization of American life in general, mostly out of a sense of noblesse-oblige from the self annointed betters of our society. In other words, they are practicing their favorite line oft mentioned during self-congratulatory cocktail conversation about willfully converting the ignorant masses: "Dragging them kicking and screaming into the 21st Century."

Once again, the champions of tolerance prove that they are anything but. In the drive to make the great American unwashed come out of their ignorance, forced secularization is becoming the norm from bodies politic, usually among those with leftist leanings. Then again, in the words of their fellow traveller and would be man-god Lenin, "Some people are are more equal than others."

In true use of the First Amendment as toilet tissue, two low-income housing projects in Winter Park, Florida and Mechanicsburg, PA have essentially banned carroling and decoration of their apartment doors with religious symbols. After all, the good proletariat wouldn't have their clear intellect burdened by such superstition. If you don't believe me, here are the links to the story:

World Net Daily

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47892

Liberty Counsel

http://lc.org/pressrelease/2005/nr121305b.htm

These good folks who run the low income housing evidently are only following the law of "seperation of church and state," except that there is no such thing, only that the First Amendment prohibits the establishment of a "state church," and precisely the infringement of religious liberty that we see here. If there is any argument against twenty year's worth of education in Social Studies, it is the insanity that we see shoved into the faces of the American public by these self-annointed important persons.

Mirror that against the like minded comerade educators from Ridgeway Elementary School in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Although the Christmas program, redubbed "Winter Program," would decorate classrooms and the building with all manner of decorations that included: Santa Claus, menorahs, Kwanzaa items, and La Befana (the Italian "Christmas witch"), no manner of the actual reason for Christmas could be seen or heard. In fact, the hymn "Silent Night" was completely rewritten for the singing of the children as "Cold in the Night." Jesus is strictly "verboten!" How dare the people of limited intellect and the easily led trifle with important matters of education that only a properly state-trained educator has the capacity of understanding?

After action by those pesky parents who really don't know how to properly raise their children in the first place, the school backed off on the corruption of the hymn. Still, the audacity and the defiant spirit of the comerade educators remain. Next year, maybe they will require "seasonal rydalin" for the "suspect children?"

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, he once said that the philosophy of a generation in the classroom will be that generation's philiosophy of government as it gets older. Americans who value their freedom should be scared. Very, very scared.

Tolerance and Inclusion Through Intolerance and Exclusion

Once again, the champions of tolerance prove that they are anything but "tolerant." The lastest cause celebre' of the self annointed betters of our society is the demand for the eradication of Christmas from public view and places.
The reason? What they say is twofold: 1. The seperation of church and state, and 2. that we must be "inclusive."

In short, to pervert the law that protects freedom or worship, speech, and assembly to suit their Bolshevik pipe dream to eradicate freedom of worship, speech, and assembly:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peacably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Amendment I.

If one wishes to engage in absurd fantasy and assumes that there is such a law as the elimination of all things religious from the public square, then these folks might actually have an argument. It has extended beyond governmental buildings, but a demand in all public places, wherther they be bodies politic or businesses. It has gone beyond the removal of Nativity scenes, and public singing of Hymns of Adoration, to involve even the "cultural cleansing" of the removal of Santa Claus, elves, reindeer, and snowmen.

Granted, I may not have graduate studies in Divinity, but I do not remember any elves, reindeer, flying slieghs, or fat elves commiting acts of burglary in the Bible. So...what gives? Even the "usual suspects" of some level of education and learning seek to ban Chrsitmas, stating that it was adopted by the Catholic church as a Christian holiday from pagan roots; therefore, it has no place in a Christian observance. Kind of an interesting tack from unbelievers who thinkthat all who do are idiots in the extreme.

The problem is fundamentally this: a disdain for the people who believe in God, who follow what they dub as "superstition," and a refusal to go along with their Socialist betters who only have their best intrests at heart. These people think, no...better make that "feel," in their heart of hearts that these poorly-educated and easily led people of limited intellect cost them governmental Nirvana in the 2000 and 2004 elections.

Essentially, what you see today is a sincere desire to "punish" these modern-day kulaks who refuse to go along with their Socialist betters' progroms. The desire to ban Christmas has long been a distant bong-dream in the THC polluted minds of the political Left, with it being a "Capitalist ploy" to get the poorly educated, easily led, and those of limited intellect to spend their hard earned sweatshop dollars in greedy corporate America's stores and malls.

The idea that it is a religious observance is correct, but that is the history and culture of the people in the nation where we live. If you want to shut yourself away from well-wishers and merry-makers, so be it. Just do not force others to become as miserable as yourself. After all, that is the Liberal definition of "equality:" spreading misery equally.

The idea that Christmas is not inclusive, and must be sacrificed out of a desire to make all faiths feel welcome is a red herring. No other religious observance is held to the same standard. Look at Channukka, with its strong and unmolested (for now) observance. Look at the wholly American manufactured pseudo holliday of Kwanza. It is not even considered to be brought to the same scrutiny. Even the observance of Ramadan, with its fast during daylight hours, is not even approachable for debate. Yet, for some reason, Christmas is punishing scores of millions through "exclusion."

This tack is nothing new. The Bolshevik rule under Lenin often called opposition to his plans "hate" and "intolerance" of the poor and working classes, and generally oppressed peoples of the world. I guess some things never change?

As long as there exists a majority of the population who believes that their rights as a free people are granted from a soveriegn God, and not the noblesse-oblige of a politician who seeks to rule as a god, these people will always be about the ankles of the saner elements of society like yapping little dogs.

Maybe its about time to swat them on the nose like one?