War on Xmas & the New Multicultural Victorians

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Christmas skirmishes as old as Puritans

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Joseph Bottum, Washington Times, 12/19/2012

"Sometime when you get a chance, go back and look at newspapers from the 1940s, the 1930s or even the 1920s. Somewhere on the editorial pages in December, you’ll find the obligatory op-ed of the season — the one about how sad it is that Christmas has become so commercialized. The one about how, in our greedy materialism, we've lost sight of the true significance of Christmas: the Christ child, born in a lowly cattle shed.

"That’s not to say the complaint was wrong in those days, nor is it wrong in these days, as far as that goes. It’s just to say that we've been hearing worries about the loss of the meaning of Christmas for a long, long time, and still the thing goes lumbering on: our titanic holiday, our wild season, our profligate indulgence — our festival. ..."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/19/christmas-skirmishes-as-old-as-puritans/#ixzz2FbZVTutP 

     The above column reminds me of the old concept of 'lying by omission.' Currently the central war on Christmas has little to do with the old one, having to do with unseemly pagan celebrations or too much commercialism versus a quiet Christmas of deep faith. It has to do with ruling political correctness, the relentless advance of Islam into the West, and other religions offended by Christmas, and pushing out Christianity, making it just one more of many interesting exotic archaic beliefs, and the federal government conducting a demographic erasing of Western civilization and its peoples and their religions. 

     True, there are many Christians among the Latin American invaders, but that tends to be a Christianity of a different sort, more entangled with indigenous beliefs, like the Day of the Dead, and often related to a type of revolutionary advocacy against the West. I'm not even a Christian, but I don't appreciate the dominant beliefs of my people being phased out, along with the people themselves. 

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"Although--Bottum clearly says that 'On the other side are our modern anti-Christian Puritans, who want to abolish Christmas because they think it promotes Christianity.'"

     You make a good point. There is definitely a puritanical character to today's multiculturalism. And, as others have pointed out, our multiculturalists have a lot in common with the 'white man's burden' Victorian colonizers. Just as the Victorians once believed that the West was so superior that it had a moral duty to colonize the non-Western world, today's multiculturalists believe that we, unlike all other cultures and races, have a moral duty to be colonized by the non-Western world, even to the extent of, like self-sacrificing saints, demographically phasing ourselves completely out of existence.