Merry Christmas?!

and we're right in the middle of the Christmas season and it might as well be the middle of summer for all the lack of joy and darkness hanging all over everything - I swear to you, fellow citizens, that I've been Merry Christmasing my way across this town and it seems like everyone is stone cold scared to say it back . . . it's as though if they SAY "merrry Christmas" that somehow they'll be convicted of being an intolerant sexist racist immigrant-hating scumbag.

Which should show you just how badly the religious right has screwed up Christmas for the rest of us.

Basically, for this "holiday season" I will make this stand:

1) There is only ONE holiday: it's Christmas, and it's the birth of a little baby who grew up to save the world by dying for it. why? Because He loved us better than we could ever love each other.

2) I'm sorry that certain small-minded bigots have smeared Christianity to the point where nobody wants to believe that a little baby was born to grow up and die for us because He loved us so much, but since He did, then the rest of us have got to TAKE CHRIST BACK! Let's get Him away from the fanatics and put Him right at the center of our hearts, where He belongs, and

3) I am gonna keep saying MERRY CHRISTMAS until I'm the last one left. Because when I say Merry Christmas I am wishing each and every single human being on this planet Love, Peace, Joy, Happiness, Harmony, Salvation, Relief, and Rest!

So Merry Christmas everybody!!!!



VG