- Humanists Attack Christmas

Written by Ann Shibler

Thursday, 13 November 2008 15:56

Washington, D.C., buses will soon be sporting ads paid for by the American Humanist Association (AHA) that attack belief in God. But what else can logically come from several years of nixing “Christmas” in favor of “holiday?” The AHA is just taking it to the next level.

Manger scene The AHA is spending $40,000 to place their blasphemous slogan, “Why believe in god? Just be good for goodness sake,” on D.C. buses (with God purposefully lowercased by AHA). The British Humanist Association announced a similar campaign for London buses with the message: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life." They uppercased their God, which says something.

With 92 percent of Americans believers in God, and very few admitting to being agnostic or outright atheistic, this is clearly a campaign against Christianity and not a reflection of popular beliefs. After all, the AHA doesn’t attack Muslim holidays or Kwanzaa celebrations, just Christmas, so it must be Christianity they are after.

It’s interesting to note the rather contradictory statement that AHA spokesman, Fred Edwords made when he said their purpose isn’t to argue the existence of God, or change minds, but “to plant a seed of rational thought and critical thinking and questioning in people's minds." His group defines its particular brand of humanism as "a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism, affirms our responsibility to lead ethical lives of value to self and humanity."

But of course, one cannot have morality — goodness — without faith in God. Absent that tether, ethics becomes little more than a matter of convenience to each individual, and every violence and vice is converted into someone's virtue. Morality cannot be codified by each individual, or there would be as many standards as there are people. And each would exhibit standards governed by pure self-interest.

When society opts to turn away from God, it could operate for a while on its traditional heritage, but after a few generations of godlessness there would be a massive breakdown of morality and ethics. That’s what the AHA is deliberately attempting to initiate here, with their religion of self. Without standards of morality, anything goes and eventually society must break down into chaos and confusion. Inevitably, into the vacuum created by the destruction of religious belief, will come the state in order to enforce whatever order seems most convenient to its purposes. State power will eventually replace God, and when that happens, tyranny is not far behind.

But back to Christmas.

The humanists’ campaign is being countered by the Catholic Leagues’ campaign to “Keep Christ in Christmas,” and the American Family Associations’ “It’s OK, wish me a Merry Christmas,” buttons.

Those who understand and keep the true meaning of Christmas, and would like to see to it that it is always properly observed, need to throw some monkey wrenches at the anti-Christmas fascists. One large company that has already done so is Grucci, a Long Island based international fireworks company. Grucci’s vice president, Phil Butler, made the decision to back out of the annual Christmas Boat Parade when the town changed the name to Holiday Boat Parade.

Those who wish to preserve tradition in American, might start by helping preserve the meaing of Christmas — all it takes is to follow the example set by Grucci.