Uncontrolled immigration has changed the traditional culture of America, including our religious holidays such as Christmas. by Billy Roper
(libertarian)
Monday, December 7, 2009
Remember when we used to be able to wish each other "Merry Christmas"?
These days it's either the generic banality of "Happy Holidays" or the milquetoast "Season's Greetings", lest any secular militant or religious minority be offended.
I, for one, certainly don't want anyone else's religious views rammed down my throat. I've witnessed too much doctrinal dissension and denominational huffing over how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, or whether Welch's is adequate for communion in tee-totaling congregations, to not have a firm respect for the first amendment and its implied separation of church and state.
But I can't help feeling that Christmas in inoffensive enough to be celebrated publicly. My ancestors celebrated Yule at one point in time, but December 25th in our culture and society should not be about Yule, or Kwanzaa, or Hannukah. It's Christmas. Now, we all know that the ACLU is not dominated by persons of Irish ancestry, so perhaps we should take a look at how unlimited immigration has affected the celebration of Christmas.
Obviously, this article isn't targeted at the flood of Latinos our nation has recently experienced, for a change, since they celebrate "Feliz Navidad", too. No, it goes deeper, and further back, than that.
Many of you may know that Kwanzaa is a Black Nationalist holiday invented by an ex-con felon of African American ancestry, and is really a hodgepodge of different African dialects, cultural traditions, and legend, most of which did not originate among the peoples who suffered from colonialism and slavery, nor whose descendants celebrate "Kwanzaa" today. Kwanzaa is just a symptom of multiculturalism and its inevitable result, identity politics and identity religion.
(Addendum as evidence that Kwanzaa is not a religion, but rather a "cultural holiday": Kwanzaa is no more a religion than peanut butter is an invention. Peanut butter is a recipe, and Kwanzaa is an artificial cultural holiday. There are no Kwanzaa churches, and no Kwanzaa pastors.
The man who invented Kwanzaa. (Maulana Karenga; includes a paraphrase of the Seven Principles of Blackness, The Nguzo Saba)
Here's documentation of Karenga's Black Nationalist political views, of his incarceration as a violent felon, and further evidence that Kwanzaa is not a part of any religion.
Hannukah, of course, came to our country with Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews, whose ancestors converted to Judaism eight centuries after the diaspora. It was a relatively minor religious holiday until it was pumped up to compete with Saint Nick's special day.
Now, I strongly support any person or group of person's right to celebrate whatever they want whenever they want and however they want, within reason. But religious competition has led to more bloodshed and war than have racial, linguistic, or monetary differences. And, what the promoters of Kwanzaa and Hannukah and other "alternative" holidays, as well as the promoters of secular celebrations, are creating, is religious competition.
It is true that any multiracial or multicultural society must inevitably feel a bit of competition between the different religions, races, and classes present. The degree and civility of that competiton fluctuates depending on demographic trends, which is why immigration can shift the balance. I don't believe that America will come apart at the frayed seams because we have to look over our shoulder before saying "Merry Christmas". But the loss of the traditionally dominant culture and heritage may signal something deeper and more sinister-the loss of hegemony by the people who built the nation. What that signals for their progeny cannot be good.
And so, changing attitudes about religious holidays can serve as a canary in a mineshaft in regards to the changing demographics of America, demographics which profoundly change our nation, regardless of what religious beliefs the incoming populations bring with them, or adopt, once they're among us. The Nationalist Party of America has some very specific ideas about how the immigration driven shift in our nation's values, culture, and population should be regulated.
The NPA calls for better border security and putting an end to illegal immigration. We call for the following:
- A 10-year moratorium on all legal immigration at a level below 250,000 per year.
- A 2000-mile double-line electric fence and barricade wall between the United States and Mexico, delineating a patrolled frontier zone occupied by U.S. military forces.
- A federally legislated end to all social welfare benefits for illegal aliens, except for emergency medical services.
- A crackdown on major businesses that chronically hire illegal aliens and the elimination of deductibility for all wages paid to illegals.
- A federal law to restate the true meaning of the 14th Amendment through inclusion of a clause limiting natural born citizenship to the children of legal U.S. citizens.
- A policy allowing legal immigrants to bring in only spouses and minor dependent children to the United States.
- An end to dual citizenship in the United States and any other country.
- A deportation program beginning with all aliens convicted of felonies and every gang member who is not a citizen of the United States, and continuing with all aliens who are in the United States illegally.
*No work visas will be issued at any time when the national unemployment rate is higher than 5%, and existing work visas will be cancelled whenever the national unemployment rate reaches 10%.
With that having been said, Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a good night.
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