Go into the Light

By: Mr. Curmudgeon
mrcurmudgeon@inthepublicsquare.com

In today’s America, many of the nihilist guardians of our Republic have twisted the clear meaning of the First Amendment of our Constitution into a shield protecting our more delicate citizens from the psychic shock that results at the mere site of anything having the slightest Christian connotation.

To keep the peace, and to avoid the legal wrangling generated by public displays honoring the arrival of the Prince of Peace, state and local governments usually allow representations of other religions – having nothing to do with the current holiday season – to stand alongside the Nativity Scene. Washington State has taken this multicultural confusion to a new level by allowing an atheist display to stand alongside the Christmas Creche inside its state capitol, which not only dismisses and ridicules Christianity but those religions having nothing to do with the current holiday season as well.

Agnostics are too disinterested to fashion a multicultural display to stand alongside the Christmas Creche; unless one views the void separating religious displays as representative. The atheist, on the other hand, is anything but disinterested. He is angry that anyone could believe in a reality beyond this mundane world. And like a black hole at the center of a swirling galaxy, he seeks to pull the bright, pulsating luminosity around him into the dark pit where no light escapes.

Scince atheists say there is no God, and Washington State insists an atheist display is equal in standing with the Nativity’s Manger, hasn’t the state shattered the “Separation of Church and State” by proclaiming atheism a religion? Atheists should be fuming at the effrontery of having been so elevated.

Of course, this is all very silly. In an attempt to offend no one, the handmaidens of multiculturalism have managed to offend everyone.

What the spectacle in Olympia shows is neither atheists nor gutless politicians can muster the gravity necessary to pull the light from a humble display of the Christ Child’s birth past the event horizon and into the swirling abyss of eternal night. Merry Christmas!

--Mr. Curmudgeon