I like this….
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there! is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred! yards away.
I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him?
I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too.
But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.
George,
Tell us how you really feel, afterall, we would not want you to hold back on anything. WOW!!!!
She may be in a mental institution by 2012, but if not, she could possibly repeat Perot’s crackpot candidate role from 1992 and split the GOP/redneck vote so that Huckabee loses and O stays in office.
Hey Bill, that would be something, wouldn’t it? Maybe good can come from bad after all. But I keep thinking of an old Yiddish saying, ” the Masses are Asses”, and throw my arms up in dispair. Billy G.
I will not abide the company of anyone who says they like Sarah Palin. I am sure at the end I will be left with no friends but oh well! Wish I could copy some of your blogs and mail them out to a few people I know but it wouldn’t do any good. They don’t get it and they never will apparently. The woman should have been totally discredited by now.
It’s their amygdala, they can’t help it. They have a disability. You need to be charitable and forgive them their wrong headed thinking.