December 22, 2004
"In case anyone would like to know, we have now entered the Christmas season. Christmas as in Jesus Christ. This is not the 'happy holidays' season. It isn't even Ramadan, which until recently I thought was a hotel chain. ...Don't 'Happy Holidays' me because I will 'Merry Christmas' you in return. And, please, don't bother to send me cards wishing me 'Happy Holidays' or that other euphemism, 'Season's Greetings'. To these I say, 'Bah! Humbug!' This 'Happy Holidays' business is just a further effort by the nation's militant atheists and non-Christians to take the real meaning out of Christmas and unfortunately too many people who call themselves Christians are willing to go along with the anti-Christmas gang, either because they are just a little bit ashamed of being identified as Christians or else it's too much trouble to stand up for what it is they believe. ... If Christians will not stand up for their God, their religion, their beliefs, how can we count on them to stand up for anything else, including their country and their liberty?" —Lyn Nofziger, former Press Secretary to Ronald Reagan
"Meaning no disrespect to the religious convictions of others, I still can't help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the greatest miracle of all and which is recorded in history. No one denies there was such a man, that he lived and that he was put to death by crucifixion. Where...is the miracle I spoke of? Well consider this and let your imagination translate the story into our own time -- possibly to your own hometown. A young man whose earthly father is a carpenter, grows up working in his father's shop. One day he puts down his tools and walks out of his father's shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in the nearby countryside, walking from place to place, preaching all the while, even though he is not an ordained minister. He never gets farther than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most. He does this for three years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of appeal, so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing -- the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial place for him so he is interred in a borrowed tomb. End of story? No, this uneducated, propertyless young man who...left no written word has, for 2,000 years, had a greater effect on the world than all the rulers, kings, emperors; all the conquerors, generals and admirals; all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who have ever lived -- all of them put together. How do we explain that? ...Unless he really was what he said he was." —President Ronald Reagan
"We wish you a winter solstice, we wish you a winter solstice, we wish you a winter solstice and a happy new year. Don't my new secularized lyrics for this holiday classic just bless your heart? But then again, can anything secular actually 'bless'? Makes you wonder. But now I am going to have to figure out what do with the 'happy new year' part because -- as you know -- the year A.D. 2005 is 2005 because it has been 2005 years since You Know Who was born. A.D. is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase - Anno Domini which translates, 'In the year of our Lord.' As in the year of our Lord You Know Who." —Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association