When you go to the store and people say "Happy Holidays!" to you, does that bother you? I mean, there's a reason we have the holidays named... Like Thanksgiving and Christmas. Why not say "Happy Thanksgiving", or "Merry Christmas"? What really takes my cake is when people say "Happy Santa day!" and "Have a happy turkey day!" C'mon people! This isn't about turkeys and jolly old men! Both of these days are profoundly about God.
This is just one more example of people trying their hardest to exclude The Almighty from every aspect of their lives. People don't want to think of Christ every time they mention "You know, that one day where we hand gifts around for no apparent reason." or who they're giving thanks to when "That day where we eat turkey and drink beer" comes around. So they rename Christmas, they rename Thanksgiving, and it really ticks me off sometimes.
With Santa Claus and the meaningless names they've given these special days, it makes me wonder if more than 90% of the people out there even know what Thanksgiving means, or even more so with Christmas. Brainwashed people are trying to irradicate God from every aspect of their lives. They've already dumbed down the core of Christmas and Thanksgiving, and now they're stupifying the names into meaningless garbage that has nothing to do with the whole reason for it all.
People don't want God to be true. So they think that if they can just keep from remembering that He really is there, He'll dissappear. They're trying to extract God from reality with their minds. Trying to keep Him out of existence by surrounding themselves with a shield of meaningless terms, made up figures, and wrong reasons. Once again, man is believing that he can vote the truth into being and extract reality with majority opinions. Man is very deceived... Man will realize just how impossible it is to change truth... but it's going to be too late.
So I say, lets break that shield, lets destroy their fictional reality, their petty names and purposeless reasons. Lets remind them every chance we get that: He is the one to give thanks to. He is the one that gives us that which we are thankful to Him for. That it is His birth we celebrate, and His ultimate gift that we keep in remembrance by giving ours. That He is the reason for it all. When they spew their worthless terms, dish them out a name that actually means something, one that reminds them why their parents called it that, one that gets them thinking about the purpose of it all. Call these days what they are!
In the midst of all the phony names, the marketing, and the ridiculous reasons... may we always remember and remind others who the real reason for the season is!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! And I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!
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