The War on Christmas:
A Jewish Perspective

“The War on Christmas 2009: A Jewish Perspective“
Marcus Epstein
VDare.com, December 21, 2009

I live in a very quaint downtown area where colonial era townhouses line the street. Last weekend’s blizzard transformed it into a veritable winter wonderland, with the normally busy street empty enough for my neighbors to walk or cross-country ski to the few restaurants, bars, and movie theatres that were still open.

With the corporate chains and the city government and shut down, one would think that the War on Christmas would take a snow day. But, sadly, my brainwashed neighbors kept waging it.

As I walked Peggy, my four month-old puppy, down through the snow, she spotted another dog with a few college students. As they sniffed each other, we exchanged the usual pleasantries about the breed and age of our dogs.

As we parted, one of the students wished me a Merry Christmas. Before I could respond, one his friends quickly chided “Don’t say Merry Christmas, say Happy Holidays!”

Not eager to get in a political argument, I said “Merry Christmas is fine” and began to walk away. Then the Grinch scolded his friend: “What if he wasn’t Christian, you would have offended him.”

At this point, I could not help but turn around and briefly explain that I was Jewish, but that I was not offended by someone wishing me Merry Christmas.

He asked why. I replied this is still a majority Christian nation and I respect that. Without missing a beat, he corrected me: “America is not a Christian nation, it’s a diverse nation!”

With the snow still floating down, I was not willing to suffer frostbite to deprogram him. So I parted by asking: “If you think that diversity is so great, why does it make you censor yourself from uttering the most harmless niceties?”

My Scrooge neighbor was most likely an emasculated Christian But many of my fellow Jews certainly do help wage the War Against Christmas. . . . Read the rest of the article.