Letters to the Editor
AJCalhoun
Published Letters: 964 Editor's Choice: 127
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An Xmas Story
[Read the article: Don't like Christmas? Get a life]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, I think GK is on the money this time. I mean, whenever I hear some self-styled spawn of the anti-Christ start screaming "I'm mellltinnng! I'm melllltinnng!" when shat upon with a "Merry Christmas" or sees a creche and goes straight to his attorney to have some petition drawn up to suggest some hideous mutilation of his non-existent spirit, I just wanna scream. Then again, I was traumatized back in 1989, when I was president of my daughter's elementary school's PTA, in the ramp-up to Christmas that year, when I get this letter from the mother of a good friend of my daughter, speaking for all the Jews connected in any way with the school (a public school, too, for god's sake! Do these Xtians have no moral compass at all?) in condemning the "Christian symbols" on some of the "holiday" wrapping paper that was being sold by the school for some reason as a way to raise money. For the school. No mention, of course, of the paper that had the colors blue and silver on it and included images of minorahs and dreidels and stuff. I guess she didn't notice that. Go figure.
Anyway, in her letter this miserable womam, who had suddenly gotten in touch with her Inner Zionist, bemoaned the "forcing" upon our families of these "Christian" symbols, which included the colors Green and Red together, Santa Claus images, pictures of Christmas trees (well they may have been Yule trees, but who's to say, really), and other onerous stuff like that. In her closing paragraph she expressed her "outrage" that we (the PTA as a group, of which she was a member and at a meeting of which she could have brought up this ridiculous matter but of course chose not to because we might have stoned her or something) would act in such an insensitive way toward the "Jewish Community." (Our community had a name and it wasn't Jewish or even Hebraic, so I dunno what she meant).
Outrage. OK, so what do you do, say or feel when something BAD actually happens?
And it keeps on happening. The Grinch is tireless.
Seriously. Get over it already. But first be sure to refer to this letter (and me) as anti-semitic or at least an evangelical. And don't forget to express your "outrage" at the fact that I've made reference to "Jews" here, because god (who does not exist)knows that's a reach-around hate-term. I'm worn out listening to people piss and moan because they choose to continue to live in the western hemisphere, and in a damned fine country full of really decent people who are rarely noticed simply because they're busy living their earnest lives. It's tough, I know, but so would be living somewhere else. Not that you're not welcome to play with that idea.
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The Burden of Proof
[Read the article: "The Nativity Story"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is no more on the believers than it is on the non-believers. The fact that even a person who signs letters with a silly atheist bumper sticker slogan wants to see it says something about the story itself, regardless of what is true about it and what is not (and historians now state as fact that someone named something like "Jesus" was born in the middle east during this period in history and grew up to cause a stir locally with repercussions that have echoed down the centuries -that much seems to be stamped as legit). So, like the accursed Christmas season itself, why don't we just enjoy the movie or shut up and do something else with the nine bucks?
If bumpersticker is going, so am I, dammit!