Want to have some fun this CHRISTMAS? Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD this year.
As they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this holiday,
we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world…
For those of you who aren’t aware of them, the ACLU, (the American Civil Liberties Union) is the one suing the U.S. Government to take God, Christmas or anything
Christian away from us. Help put Christ back in Christmas!
Make sure the card you send says “Merry Christmas” on it. And get a religious stamp to put on it also.
Here’s the address, just don’t be rude or crude. (It’s not the Christian way, you know.)

ACLU
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York , NY 10004

Now how will this really help anything concerning the ACLU’s perceived attitude toward Christianity?

Two tons of Christmas cards would freeze their operations because they wouldn’t know
if any were regular mail containing contributions. So spend 44 cents and tell the
ACLU to leave Christmas alone. Also tell them that there is no such thing as a
“Holiday Tree”. . . It’s always been called a CHRISTMAS TREE!

And pass this on to your email lists. We really want to communicate with the ACLU!
They really DESERVE us!!

Awesome series of blogs. This has been a fixation of mine for some time… the way Christians do this sort of thing. Honestly, so many Christians these days are simply Pharisees. And I’ve actually said in the past that I wished there were something else to call myself because I do not want to be associated with some of the people that are calling themselves Christians. This isn’t to say that they dont’ mean well… but it just seems like so many people are sheep… following whatever they are told that Christians should follow… never considering what Jesus says about it.

For me the question is about how big we are inviting God to be in our reality. He is a big God – big enough to be present in our sanctuaries as well as our bars. The more we invite him into those places and seek him out in the art, music, film and other culture of our day, the bigger he will become in our lives.

By the way, this tribute to Radiohead’s “OK Computer” is excellent: http://stereogum.com/okx

I am actually re-reading a collection of the sayings of the Desert Fathers (as opposed to the Dessert Fathers… whole other thing) and thinking about that topic as well. The monks practice disciplines that necessitated absence from mainstream culture BUT their practice of those disciplines benefits the mainstream culture as they learn things about humanity and our relationship to God that are otherwise unknowable; all of this is why they write down these things.

While I can’t speak for the creators or users at ChristianChirp, I’ll go out on a limb and postulate their motives aren’t quite as altruistic nor as well thought out as those of St. Anthony, Poemen or even Thomas Merton.

Though in thinking about Christians that purposefully exclude themselves from culture, I wonder how the monastic movement and early Christian hermits would fit with this type of exclusion. Very different contexts, of course, but it’s an interesting comparison. Christians have been excluding themselves from culture since the early church.