Remember: It's Christmas (12/08/05)

To the editor:

Last Sunday morning, I woke up before sunrise, which doesn’t necessarily mean it was very early, with my head flooded with the words and thoughts I want to briefly share with you. It was probably the result of my going to bed utterly disgusted and frustrated with the obvious assault the secular culture is making on Christmas and our traditions.

Many of you will probably go to Christmas parties before the month is over, with families, your staff, the office, etc. I’m sure some of you are already busy baking Christmas cookies and making Christmas candy. All of us are addressing Christmas cards and composing Christmas letters to send to our friends and relatives.

The Christmas season got started in earnest the day after Thanksgiving, with the frantic Christmas shopping of Black Friday. Of course, the Christmas gifts being bought will have to be wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper. And soon they’ll end up under the Christmas tree, which has been decorated with Christmas ornaments and lights. Some folks even go the next step and decorate the outside of their houses with Christmas lights.

Parents and grandparents are going to Christmas programs, Christmas concerts and Christmas plays at school and church. Some church choirs are hard at work rehearsing this year’s Christmas Cantata.

Christmas music is everywhere. You hear it up on Meridian, in stores, on the radio. Soon you’ll hear it outside the homes of shut-ins and in the halls of nursing homes as groups of folks go Christmas caroling.

Ministers and church leaders are preparing the Christmas eve service in their churches, and many people look forward to attending.

Christmas is on Sunday this year. That means we will be blessed in two ways. We will get to celebrate Christmas and we will get to worship the Christ in Christmas.

So, the next time you here radio and TV advertising shouting about holiday this and holiday that, just remember: New Year’s is a holiday; Christmas is still Christmas.

Thanks for reading.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Rogers Durham

Portland

United?

To the editor:

It is so very clear to me that many leaders of the Democratic party are so desperate to regain power back to their party that they are willingly, or unwittingly, causing the war in Iraq to be prolonged.

This in turn is costing more American lives. The terrorists know the only chance they have to win the war is if the United States stays un-united. The Democrats and the liberal media are doing a good job keeping the United States divided.

They (the Democrats) said President Bush lied about WMDs, but many of them said even before President Bush was elected that Iraq had WMDs. Now they claim they got their intelligence from the Bush administration and that it was flawed intelligence. Give me a break. If they got intelligence that Iraq had WMDs before President Bush was elected, how can they say now taht they got flawed intelligence from President Bush?

The plain truth is President Bush did not lie; also there is no proof that the terrorists are being tortured. So why does the liberal media state there is torture when they don’t give any evidence of torture?

Wise up, radical liberal Democrats and media. It is transparent that you have a political agenda and it is costing many more lives of our military men and women as well as the people of Iraq.

I believe if the politicians and the media would all back the war effort and unite behind the president, the war would soon be over. Because the terrorists know there is no way they can defeat us militarily if we were united against them. But I also believe if we stay un-united as we are now the terrorists will defeat U.S.

Daniel Turpen

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