It seems all one need do this week is turn on a radio, TV, computer, or pick up a newspaper, and without looking very hard you will see or hear of some group of "these or thats"  who have made it their "goal of the day" to object to Christmas.   I'm sure I have read a dozen or more reports in just the past couple of days, and I'm sure there are new ones happening as I write this.

I may be an old guy, but my memory is good. I certainly can remember Christmas growin' up in the 50's........how special a time it was . I can also remember how this PC feces stuff didn't exist.....and how great a place America was then.......that was then ..this is now!

I have noticed though it would appear that the regular American seems to be havin' his fill of this nonsence,At least as far as Christmas goes.  I have read where the regular "Joe and Joan" have been complaining to corparate America or  should that be "Corrupt Amerika?" that they want to call Christmas Christmas, a Christmas song a Christmas song etc. The time for such actions  is long overdue,  that is if  nation  (originally based on freedom from Religious Persecution) is to longer exist.   Let those people start with Christmas, then it will be Easter, then  next it will be your religion as a whole......

Don't believe it? Check out a history book prior to 1970 something....... that is, if you can still lay ya'lls hands on one............look to see what happened when the  powers that began with the Lincoln administration and those devoted followers of his that came after, see what they did in regards to the religion (s) of the Plains Indians........Takin' the land wasnt enough, or the buffalo, how about let's go after  their dances, and sacred ceremonies, how about their language (s) too? It's all there to read, and it's a lesson to be learned....call it a wake up call from 150 years past if nothing else.  The taking away has really never stopped either. Oh, we ,made  a little progress in getting some of the old ways and traditions back in the late 1960' early 70's but for the most part we have lost more than we regained.

When my grandpa Warren left OK as a boy, years back........things happend that he never forgot......he related some stories to me of those times I put those stories to lyrics in 1998,Blue and I worked together on the music (personallyI think it one of the best songs we ever wrote. It was recorded  on the 1999 QWICHERBICHEN cd.It's titled  "Wazahazhe" The name is what my people the OSAGE called themselves......the entire song came to life in less than ten minutes, because when grandpa told the stories he painted them visually in my mind,  Thirty some years later I could still see the pictures...............

There was a time on the land, when just to survive consequence at hand

'was in 1904 in the year of your Lord, our numbers were few from Getty's point of view" in a Packard he came.bringin' his reign for dimes on he dollar... my people he collared..............seems overnite the towns they came, taverns and pool halls are much the same.  satin ladies with sickness inside after  three years of pleasure two thousand had died..............   chant"oh my I aaaaaah Ishti I aye Wazahazhe"

They cut our hair and sent us to school, taught us to speak a language new, made illegal our religion coerced amnesia of old ways, why barrels of oil flowed from our land, raping our culture and shattering our hands...Oh my I aaaah  I aye ha ..Ishti I waw Wazahazhe.......(the remainder of the song is basicall  all chant and heavy tom tom, and some incredible guitar work............) but the message is in the words.

Times were already hard enough  trying to exist on land no one else wanted.............then oil was found  and it all changed. we went from bein' the poorest  to the richest..........then the tainted ladies were brought in, the  whiskey flowed like rivers  and before our eyes everything basically  was stolen again..........

The same thing is happening to Christians all across the country right now..............naw you dont have the  oil  the OSAGE did,  so it isnt bein' stolen and no, oil barons arent bringing in prostitutes with STDs and goin'after Christians in an effort to kill off the community..................but, there are bad people out there goin' after your religious symbols, and terminology.............just wait , do nothing, and they will steal your religion right out from under your noses.

What a sad sad day that will be! I pray it never happens, but my ancestors prayed all the time, it happened to them. I pray all the time bad still happens of course time to time that's just life I guess. But, when you lose your prayers, your religion, your beliefs, you lose it all.................even your hope.  The loss of hope is the most tragic of all.........the loss of hope means a defeated people..We as Christians must NEVER lose  our faith, our symbols, our hope, nor even what we consider holidays (although I never think of the birth and death of my Saviour as a holiday ). To me those days are days of celebration, saddness, rebirth and celebration again..

So the next time you learn of someone, group etc. that doesn't like the word Christmas,  Easter,  your cross, or your faith.don't be a lamb to the slaughter stand up use the phone, the mail, the www, or your voice.................and scream it to the world "that you have had enough".......becasue if you don't "they will steal your religion" then what are you do????????What will you have left????????

Blessin's to all

T.