Every Day is Christmas Day

 Krayton Kerns
12.19.07

On St. Patrick’s Day, everyone is Irish.  There is nothing more festive than watching rednecks of Norwegian descent consume vast quantities of corn-beef and cabbage and wash it down with mugs of green beer while mumbling Irish drinking songs.  (Did the Irish really need drinking songs?)  The next morning our Irish revelers are fogged by a slight hangover but they make it to work anyway.  Between bouts of nausea and headaches they swear off being Irish…at least until next St. Patrick’s Day.

 On Christmas, everyone is Christian.  They gather and consume vast quantities of caramels, cookies, and candy canes all washed down with copious mugs of egg-nog and wassail while singing Christmas carols.  Good will is everywhere as revelers wish all they see a hearty Merry Christmas.  And then, just like St. Patrick’s Day, Christmas is over.  Being a Christian is out of the way for another year.

 Keep that thought fresh in your mind as I ramble further. This Christmas our nation is at war.  Today’s battle is waged on two fronts against two enemies.  To avoid the crushing might of the American forces the first enemy hides amongst the populace, strikes at night and targets the most innocent of society.  The second enemy is Islamic terrorists.

 Let’s address the second enemy first as it is the simplest.  Islamic terrorists want all infidels dead.  No negotiations, no dialogue, no Rodney King “can’t-we-just-all-get-along,” just plain old dead.  With crystal clear hindsight, should the passengers of United Flight 93 have negotiated with the terrorists who overpowered the flight crew?  I think not.  We will destroy this enemy wherever they hide as there is no other option.

 It is the first enemy; the one that hides amongst us that is the most dangerous.  This enemy is purposefully separating Americans from this country’s founding principle that all men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…” as stated in the Declaration of Independence.  It is not happenstance that our nation’s first document credits God as the source of our freedom.  He is.  

Later John Adams penned, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” 

 More recently John F. Kennedy added, “The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.”

 In consideration of these three quotes, if we are a Christian nation only one day a year, we will fail as have all the world’s democracies that weren’t adherent to moral and religious principles.  So I bid you Merry Christmas, today and everyday for the rest of your life.