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CHRISTMAS LETTER A SMOKESCREEN
 

      Amber Kelleher’s 12/17/05 letter to the editor demonstrates a tactic used to evade truth and avoid honest discourse. She discussed a sentiment that most of us have in common (feeling appalled by the commercialistic debasement of Christmas), and then used that common sentiment to promote an agenda that is irrelevant to it. I’ve heard appropriate railing against commercialization of Christmas since the first time I watched “Miracle on 34th Street” that was first aired in 1947. It is nothing new.

 

      Amber’s true agenda is the promotion of the version of “Separation of Church and State” that is unconstitutional and was clearly not the intention of our nation’s founders. The danger of this perversion of our constitution was well expressed by Thomas Jefferson and is engraved on the memorial that bears his name in Washington D.C.: “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not violated but with His Wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

 

      Jesus Christ lives in His followers. His teachings from when He walked the Earth have been left for us as” teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16). He did not force Himself on anyone, and I don’t personally know any Christians who support the promotion of a State-enforced religion. Nevertheless, we are in peril individually and as a nation when our government and culture enforce the removal of public reference to God the Father or His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ Whose Incarnation and death reconciled us with the Father. Our appropriate response to His loving, providential sacrifice is both private and public gratitude, obedience, and service, referred to by George Washington in his “National Day of Thanksgiving Proclamation” 10/3/1789:

 

      “…it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly implore His protection and favor…”

Annie Bukacek MD


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