Its Beginning to Look Less Like CHRISTmas

WND reports that the White House Christmas is beginning to look a little too sanitized.

What's missing from the White House commemoration of Christmas this year?
Jesus.
The little baby in the manger.
The reason for the season.

While President Bush was re-elected last month in an election victory many attributed to an outpouring of support by evangelical Christians impressed with his candid outspokenness about his faith, some Americans notice the White House website lacks even a single mention of Jesus, whose birth is celebrated by hundreds of millions worldwide Dec. 25.

The official White House site proclaims this as the "Season of Merriment and Melody" – not the birth of the Savior of the world.

This just strengthens my assertion that the Christian right was bamboozled by the Republicans into thinking that Bush is Mr. Uber-Christian. (For a previous discussion of this, go here.)

At the lighting of the National Christmas Tree Dec. 2, Bush remarked: "Tonight we begin a joyous season, and the city of Washington is never more beautiful than during the holidays. At Christmas time we celebrate good tidings first announced two thousand years ago, and still a source of great joy in our world. Laura and I are always happy to join in the Pageant of Peace, and we thank you all for coming this evening.

"The season of Advent is always the season of hope," Bush continued. "We think of the patient hope of men and women across the centuries who listened to the words of the prophets and lived in joyful expectation. We think of the hope of Mary, who welcomed God's plan with great faith. We think of the hope of the Wise Men who set out on a long journey guided only by a slender promise traced in the stars. We are reminded of the hope that the grandest purposes of the Almighty can be found in the humblest places. And we embrace the hope that all the love and gifts that come to us in this life are the signs and symbols of even a greater love and gift that came on a holy night. The old carol speaks of a 'thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, for yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.' And every year at this time we feel the thrill of hope as we wait on Christmas Day."

How's that for a bunch of New Age Mumbo-Jumbo?

Nothing here to offend anyone! Except maybe the people who actually know and celebrate what Christmas is all about...the birth of the Savior of the world, Jesus of Nazareth.

And don't bother making the empty argument about the alleged separation of church and state. IT DOES NOT EXIST. Go ahead and read any and all the founding documents. Tell me where you find the phrase "separation of church and state". You won't.
And don't point to the establishment clause of the First Amendment. Establishment and separation are two completely different things.

Paul of Tarsus told us that a righteous man judges all things. Christians better start watching what people do and listen to what they say, instead of projecting their feelings into a bunch of open-ended, meaningless rhetoric. That will only lead to a path of destruction.