In an attempt to secularize America, Progressives have Xed out Christmas. As far as the far left is concerned, the birth of Christ as a legitimate date on the country�s calendar does not exist. It is bringing church into state. That cannot be permitted.

Further, the Progressives continually seek to erase the Judeo-Christian heritage of America; therefore, Christmas cannot be allowed to be. It is not. It is pushing religion on a culture. It is brashly endorsing a religious observance that does not fit in with the American way of life any more.

Yet it is John Kerry who states that 20,000 US troops must be brought home before Christmas. Not. It is a contradiction in terms, definition, and philosophy.

What then does a reprobate Roman Catholic mean when he calls for US militia to be on American shores by a Christmas that does not stand legitimacy in the United States. It surely does not stand a chance in the eyes of a desecrating-of-the-sacrament John Kerry.

The world is becoming increasingly confusing. Consistency does not stand a level playing field when such self-appointed leaders as Kerry continue to misuse the English language to push for church impinging on state. What is a logical citizen of this nation to think when such linguistic, political, religious and philosophical mayhem reigns?

According to FOX News, Kerry is brash enough to strut center stage, obviously missing the media attention since failing his presidential exam last November, and therefore must ring in the Yuletide in his own unreasonable fashion.

"Sen. John Kerry says President Bush should bring home 20,000 troops from Iraq over the Christmas holidays if the December parliamentary elections there are successful," according to the AP. He was speaking at Georgetown University.

Christmas.

Obviously Americans believe it is here to stay. However, the politically correct will not tolerate it. That is, unless there is a national disaster over Christmas. Then even the non-church-going promise one another prayers and call on the divine for rescue. Churches are opened as shelters. Clergy are asked to dish out the meals. Parishioners give from their tithes and offerings to help those struck down.

However, church must not mix with state. God must go on leave. Clergy must mug themselves.

It�s a loose world we live in. It�s a very loose hanging world, for sure.

FOOTNOTE:

THE TRUTH ABOUT �SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE�

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Liberals have run off with this phrase, prostituting it per usual.

The matter is simple. It�s this: America does not want a state church. England has a state church � the Anglican Church. America does not want one denomination considered The Nation�s Church.

On the other hand, America has a religious heritage. It�s not Muslim. It�s not Hindu. It�s not Shinto. It�s not animism. It�s not New Age. It�s not Paganism. It�s not Voodoo. It�s Judeo-Christian.

America, while not desiring a state church, does desire religion in life. That includes religious expression in everyday exchange. Because Judeo-Christian is America�s heritage, most citizens honor that heritage expressed and honored. Its expression then should not be thwarted. It should not be belittled. It should not be erased in the name of "separation of church and state."

Unhampered religious expression is promised in the First Amendment.

Further, America, having a Judeo-Christian heritage and the right to present-tense expression, permits freedom of religious expression to other religions. Therefore, there are those of other religious persuasions who practice without fear their religions in America.

What the liberals want to do is redefine the phrase "separation of church and state" to exclude Judeo-Christian religious expression in America. They want not only "separation of church and state" defined on their terms but the exclusion of the Judeo-Christian religion and anything coming close to that particular religious expression�period.

Liberals believe that if they continue harping on the "separation of church and state" phrase, brainwashing the public with their prostituted definition, especially indoctrinating the next generation with their prostituted definition, then they will have won secularism for America�s future.

They, in other words, want not only separation but exclusion of religion � completely so. Note however that the chief religion they want excluded is Judeo-Christian.

They will even tolerate other religions, as they are presently doing with the Muslim infiltration, but it is Judeo-Christian that they want cleansed from America. In other words, it�s a religious cleansing they desire for this nation � the extinguishing specifically of the Judeo-Christian faith.

Therefore, if tolerating another religion such as Islam helps wipe out Judeo-Christianity, then so be it. Islam is far better a tolerance than the American heritage of Judeo-Christian. Therefore, there are school districts hiring Muslims to speak to teachers on how to give Muslim students honor and space. No such invitation, of course, has been extended to Judeo-Christian specialists speaking to public school educators on how to give Judeo-Christian adherents honor and space.

In a nearby high school, a prayer room was set aside for Muslim students. No such prayer room or any other respect has been presented those of the Judeo-Christian heritage.

Liberals, in other words, will do whatever it takes to obliterate America of its rightful Judeo-Christian heritage. This is accented every year particularly during the Christmas season. Any other so-called "religious expression" can come to the fore but the Christian particulars must be silenced at all costs. So we hear throughout the Christmas season, not Christian hymn carols, but "separation of church and state."

Once again, liberals have taken language to serve their own twisted purposes. They took "homosexual" and made it "gay." They took "pro-choice" and made it "protecting females." They take "separation of church and state" and make it "wiping out America�s Judeo-Christian heritage."

What those of the Judeo-Christian heritage must do � and far more concertedly than they have ever done in the past � is to make clear to the public what "separation of church and state" really means. This must be put in print in magazines and journals. It must be preached from pulpits. It must be taught in religion classes. It must be spelled out in letters to the editor.

Unfortunately, this simply has not been done. The church in particular has permitted the liberals to carry on with their prostitution of the phrase. I have been appalled over the years to note that the church specifically has not risen to expose the liberals� misuse of that phrase. Therefore, the young have taken quickly to the liberals� definition while the church has sat, in the main, silent, allowing the enemy to win out.