The War on Christmas Turkey
The holiday season is underway as are the office holiday parties. Now, I work in an area that’s about 90 percent Southern Baptists, but this time of year they all try to be inclusive. So we don’t have Christmas parites but Holiday parties. Apparenlty even among well-intentioned Christians there is confusion on how to be secular. So far I’ve encountered two festive deli trays and a holiday taco buffet. No turkey with all the trimmings. No stuffing. No cranberry sauce. Only politically correct deli trays and “let’s celebrate different cultures” tacos. The turkey dinner has become a casualty of the war on Christmas.
Now I’m inclined to wonder if this turkey boycott is an indication that perhaps the most dangerous enemy of Christmas is not the secular liberals, the humanists or the Yule celebrating Pagans but the Christians who seem somehow to have forgotten what their holiday is all about. Perhaps someone should remind them that according to their traditions they aren’t celebrating trees and ornaments or Hallmark cards or even that all important religious icon–the Christmas turkey, but the birth of their God. Because speaking as one little witch watching this year’s “war on Christmas” they seem to have become confused by their own Christmas hype.
