Nice...

I'm delighted at your sarcasm and irony... but I hope it isn't going to take years off your life with worry and stress.

This sort of "progressive" attitude that so much of America is embracing is going to backfire... just as it always has. This isn't the first time that our culture has tried to rewrite itself into something that it isn't, and it won't be the last.

With more than 80% of our nation openly claiming to be Christian, terms like "Christmas" and "Christ" can't be ignored or shunned without pissing off someone between sea and shining sea. These are the same "someones" that voted in the biggest GOP midterm upset in 35 years... and the more that the progressive/liberal left want to push buttons and make what at least 80% of America thinks of as "traditional" look like fascism, then the quicker their voices will be heard again at the polls.

Someone else pointed out something I think we all need to keep in mind:

The number of people that it makes to raise a stink about a problem is very, very small. Once that "problem" is addressed, the number of people to fix it grows. The bigger the problem, the more people it takes to fix it.

Allowing a small, very select few to dictate to us (the majority) what we can, can't or shouldn't do is no one's fault BUT the majority's. If a school district is going to raise a stink about calling a holiday "Christmas" then it is the fault of the vast majority of school district tax payers for allowing a few atheists to force a change in the district. Once that change is made, though... it takes far greater effort (and sometimes expense) to bring things back to where they were in the first place.

This is the very FOUNDATION of such ideologies as those promoted by the likes of Saul Alinsky in his Rules for Radicals, published as long ago as 1972. Force the change, and that which you changed becomes the status quo... making a return to the previous state that much harder and requiring more and greater effort to do so. The natural entropy of a society like ours (and there is no society on earth more entropic than ours) means that what was changed is that much more UNLIKELY to be changed back in the future.

I'm not saying that certain milestones in "bad government" haven't been overturned in the past, or that they can't be fixed in the future. Prohibition is an excellent example, isn't it? I'm saying that the Abstinence Society of America was a 15,000 member group that managed to stop all legal alcohol production, distribution and consumption for 14 years and ended an industry that employed nearly 400,000 people and produced a staggering $200 billion (in 2006 dollars) a year in government tax and excise revenue from production to consumer sales. Had enough of mainstream, moderate America raised its voice prior to the passage of the Volstead Act in 1919... that particularly dark chapter in American history (the "Noble Experiment" indeed... thanks Hoover!) would never have occurred.

So, as much as I enjoy reading your open letters on the Bund... don't simply post on the Bund and hope everyone reads it. Print the letter out and send it to the Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial page. Go to a school board meeting the next time there is an item on the public agenda about naming (or renaming) holidays in more PC terms. Better yet, vote for practicing Christians to sit on your board... Vegas must be practically crawling with Mormons anyway, right?