Can Christmas be PC?

In a word, "no." The essence of Christmas is not to be PC. Christmas is a religious holiday celebrated by a particular sect of believers to whom Christ was a very important guy. If you do not believe in Christ as the Savior, you don't get Christmas presents. That's how it works.

The muddy area comes as it always does in the United States—when government and religion intersect. Maybe you already heard that Boston nearly had a holiday tree this year. On the one side, we have officials so worried about neglecting anyone that they changed the name to a holiday tree. On the other side, we have the righteous Jerry Falwell, protector of rights most of us couldn't care less about, who threatened to sue with the fury of "700 Christian lawyers" if Boston didn't change the name back to a Christmas tree. And so the life of the holiday tree ended abruptly, and the Christmas tree was reborn in Beantown.

Why is the city putting up a Christmas tree, anyway? I've never really understood how a division between Church and state suddenly became moot at Christmas. Was it written into law as a strict division of Church and State "except at Christmas. Everyone loves that holiday!"?

It's pretty common knowledge with his God-sprinkled speeches and stern take on that new-fangled "science" stuff that G-Dub considers the division between Church and State to be a pesky little wall soon for demolition. As a matter of fact, it was recently announced in the press that the CIA has been chipping away at the bottom of the wall since Sept. 12, 2001, as G-Dub gave them special powers that the little people of the U.S. didn't need to know about. With one sharp rap of the Christmas tree-topper, the wall will be down and Church and State can live happily ever after! Creationism will be taught in schools and everyone will be required to say "God almighty bless you!" when someone sneezes in public!

However, until that happens, Church and State are still separate. Christmas is not PC, it is not a state holiday, and should be celebrated by those who share a belief in Jesus Christ. (And possibly those that were raised with those beliefs and, although not completely buying them anymore, would really miss the cookies. But that's another blog entry.) Just as Kwanzaa and Hanukkah should be celebrated by select groups of people. The city shouldn't be decorating for or celebrating any of them. If the government is going to sponsor any holiday festivities, it should be Festivus.