Jewish Man's Christmas View - Very Eloquent

[Shimmie]

I received this today and thought I'd share it here. This is from Ben Stein. He shared this eloquent commentary on the CBS Morning Show.

I love it.... Especially the bolded below in red. It's the truth.

Here's his website: http://www.benstein.com/121805xmas.html​

Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart:

I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important? I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is, either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife.

Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. Is this what it means to be no longer young. It's not so bad.

Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.

I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?

I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.

Ummmm, All I can say is "....he spoke the truth, as I know it and then some. Love it!

 

[dlewis]

and let us all say amen.

Hi Shimmie. love ya

 

[Nice & Wavy]

Can I get a high-five on this one????

This is just what I needed to read today...thanks, sis.

 

[MrsQueeny]

That was great, thanks Shimmie. I have been wondering about some of the same things. Q

 

[Shimmie]

Lady D and Lady Wavy, I love you too

Don't you just love what he said about 'being pushed around' just because we serve God, and being tired of it. I HAD to post this...I HAD to, cause it is the truth.

I get tired of being told to shut up about Jesus...about God. And the man said, since when did America become an athiest country?????

Anyhoo...

for each of you and your precious hubbies.... :blowkiss:

 

[Shimmie]

That was great, thanks Shimmie. I have been wondering about some of the same things. Q

Love you too, Lady Q... AND your precious family.

 

[motherx2esq]

Wow! That was wonderful!

 

[ThursdayGirl]

And Ben Stein's stock in my consciousness rises yet again.

He is really an impressive man. Very intelligent.

I appreciate what he said here. Thanks for posting Shimmie . Haven't seen you around in awhile. Glad to see you're still here sometimes .

 

[Shimmie]

Motherx2esq and Thursday Girl... to both of you.

Thursday Girl, thank you. I've been busy with home, family and work. It doesn't give me much time to be online. But my heart is still here for each of you and I keep you in my heart and prayers.

 

[charmingt]

Very nice!!