The Christian Festival of Christmas is under great threat, but not from mad clerics on the internet.
The threat to Christmas comes from the commercialisation and exploitation of this religious celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
Their aim is not to enrich our culture or underpin our faith, but make lots of money from us by selling us Crackers, Cards, Decorations, DVDs and bad CD compilations. All of which dilute the meaning of Christmas.
By buying a fir tree (a German custom introduced by Prince Albert) you are wrecking the Festival of Christmas far more than a nutter peddling is own rival nonsense.
Thanksgiving. Hmmm, let me think... the early Christian settlers had a good first harvest, then went on to exterminate the indigenous population of between 10 to 30 million Native Americans leaving the remaining ones scratching a living on the most worthless, lifeless pieces of land imaginable.
Thanksgiving - A celebration of the start of a campaign of genocide.
Not very Christian is it? What am I saying � it�s a perfect example of Christianity. Good will to all men, unless of course, you happen to be a Native American.
In fact what we call "Christmas" was already a pagan festival before it became Christmas.
When the Christian church wanted a festival to celebrate the birth of Jesus they realised that creating their own festival may be difficult.
So they hijacked what was already a time for celebration and just called it Christmas. Jesus was not, of course, born on Christmas day.
Can you imagine the pagans at that time, having a go at the Christians for getting rid of their pagan festival.
"The Christians, come over here, trying to stop our pagan festivals. We have had these festivals for years, and now they want us to start celebrating the life if some bloke called Jesus. Why cant they leave our festivals alone."