Keeping Christ in Christmas

As a Tarot Reader using the "pen" name of Brigid Bishop, many people automatically assume that I am no longer a Christian. They are very much mistaken. I may no longer be a traditional Roman Catholic Practitioner, but I am very, very, very much a Christian.

It makes me sick to think of people out there taking the time out of there busy lives to actually object to having CHRIST be the major focus of CHRISTMAS!!! These fanatics who so heatedly argue that our children should no longer learn Christmas Carols in school, or have public displays of "religious" representations of the holidays are just ridiculous.

This entire country was founded on the search for FREEDOM OF RELIGION!!! Now, nearly 225 years later, we're going to allow a small minority voice (although obnoxiously loud), to dictate how and when we celebrate and honor the greatest religious holiday in Christendom????

Come on! Let's start voicing our opinions!!!! Let's start Christmas Caroling!!! Let's make sure that our cities, towns and communities have displays of our heritage and our spirituality!!!

Let's get by the commercialism that has overtaken our holiday and get back to basics!!

Let's read our children the story of that holy night in Bethlehem BEFORE we read them the stories of Rudolph and Santa......let's TEACH OUR CHILDREN WELL!!!!

If our children are forbidden to sing "Oh Holy Night" and "Silent Night" at school, let's sing it to them at home!!

The birth of Jesus Christ was a blessed and special event that has affected mankind, Christian or not, for the last two thousand years. It will continue to affect us for thousands more.

We are not mixing government with religion when we have a Christmas tree set up in our public schools, we are just sharing our culture!

Some of the symbols of the season of Yule have been adopted by the Christian tradition of Christmas, as is the Christmas tree. It is a celebration of the change of seasons and the hope that spring will return once more. Yes, it has become a powerful symbol of Christianity, however, it is a celebration of the cycle of the year, which is nature, which mankind is a part of.

We cannot renounce Christ out of Christmas anymore than we can renounce the sun out of the summer sky.

Accept it, embrace it and enjoy it, Christian or not, it is here to stay, and we need to start fighting back.

CHRIST IS CHRISTMAS!!!!

Hallelujah!!!

Brigid Bishop