Apparently the mayor and other ‘frightened of the ACLU’ leaders of St. Albans, West Virginia, have received a lot of feedback about their “a place for the animals” nativity scene, sans Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The response, in fact, has been so overwhelming, they decided to put the baby Jesus in the manger. Well, sort of. We’re really not sure if it’s the baby Jesus. According to the mayor, it’s just “the baby.” Oh, and Mary and Joseph are still banned. Heck, it might not even be their child. You never know with all those orphan infants hanging out in mangers.
So now the St. Albans Nativity scene consists of a bunch of animals and a little baby, who could really be anyone, because there are no parents around, forcing you to, once again, use your imagination about who that little baby might be. Hey, if it’s Jesus, that ‘s completely up to you. St. Albans has no opinion about who the baby is, I’m sure.
Baby Jesus Back in W.V. Manger
ST. ALBANS, W.Va. (AP) – Baby Jesus will be in the manger for Christmas after all, even if Mary and Joseph won’t be there to coo.
Officials have put the infant back into the town’s nativity scene after news reports about the omission prompted e-mails from as far away as South Korea.
“The baby is in the manger,” Callaway said Monday. [Who that baby is, however, is anyone’s guess–ed.]Jesus will be included, but Mary and Joseph are still out. [Wow, that poor couple. Their baby is the Son of God, it’s been over 2,000 years, and they still can’t get a room!–ed.]
The manger scene, one of 350 light exhibits in the town’s annual Festival of Lights, had included shepherds, camels, and a guiding star, but no Jesus, Mary or Joseph. The parks superintendent said Jesus was left out because of concerns about the separation of church and state. But Mayor Dick Callaway said it was more a technical issue and an oversight.
“The purpose isn’t to support a particular religion,” Callaway said. “It’s just to show one more side to the season.”
Yes, indeed. Welcome to the Christmas Spirit in St. Albans. I wonder if Mayor Calloway is due for a visit from a few ghosts anytime soon.
Good grief! “Unto us a child is born” has become a joke in America. When God decided on a plan of salvation for his people he picked this really cool story of a child being born to a virgin…now in the United States of America this is Anethema! Christ told us this would happen but I’d like someone in the humanist commuity ot invent a better story…a baby is born sinless…leads a siness life and dies for all of us sinners! Who knew!!!
Sorry, I missed the other part! All it takes is faith is Jesus Christ to be forgiven! Nothing else! No works! Just faith which, by the way the Holy Spirit gives us” so that no man can boast!!!
God bless each one of you during this special season!
Steve Abbott
Mound, MN
“The purpose isn’t to support a particular religion,” Callaway said. “It’s just to show one more side to the season.”
Dear Mayor Lump-of-Coal, just what season would that be? Cold & flu season? Ski season?
Come on, say it— It’s… Christmas Season!!!
Yaaay for us!!!
Maybe what we all need to start doing is being openly offended by atheism, in similarly demonstrative fashion, and try to wipe atheism away from public view, like these politically defective folks try to do against Christianity, cowering before urban legends of how certainly “someone” will be OFFENDED by Jesus?
Christians are not making laws against atheism in America, but atheists are perverting the laws of the USA against Christianity.
Separation of Church and State is double talk for separation of God from country. Should God Bless America or not? I say yes, God Bless America, PLEASE!
Jesus says, “If you are ashamed of me in front of others, I will be ashamed of you in front of God the Father!” So it just will not do for us to cower in fear because of ACLU-created urban legends of Christians supposedly oppressing the anti-Jesus crowd (tiny as that anti-Jesus crowd might be, but they hold MOST of the media microphones and beat us all into polite submission to THEIR anti-Jesus agendas. God Bless the exceptions, like Tammy Bruce Radio).
Beastselling atheist author of THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins, was on BookTV talking about how atheists can’t get elected for political office, and how he thinks that is shameful. I think that’s a good thing, keep the riff raff out. I think we should keep atheism shameful.
What is strange is that it isn’t even “God” who they object to, it is Jesus and Christianity, specifically. That’s why the same folks who oppose public square expressions of Christianity do not oppose public square expressions of other religions such as Islam, even though Islam is, unfortunately, the religion of choice for most terrorists.
The Old Testament of our Judeo-Christian Bible has a lot of violent instruction about claiming the Promised Land, but the modern Jews and Christians have a better understanding of the Bible, our own Holy Writings, and we do not advocate hostile overthrows, as in Old Testament times, anymore. The same cannot be said about writings in the Koran, and today’s Muslims, unfortunately.
I believe that it is no accident that the entire world spins around the story of the tiny group of people known as the Jews. What other tiny percentage of the world’s population has been so equally influential and so persecuted throughout thousands of years?
Those are the people that God made a covenant with, as explained in the Bible, (even though the Jews messed up big time, so God turned a Jew, Jesus, into the Savior of the world, for all the world, not just the Jews anymore).
Ever notice that every other week or so along comes another story of some little sociopath twit and/or her sociopath dimwit boyfriend who abandoned their newborn baby in a toilet or a garbage dumpster so as to prevent any interference with their dirty dancing at the prom? We vilify those types as the very lowest form of human beings, and rightly so. It’d be hard even for the ACLU to argue that child abandonment is just another form of groovy, cutting edge 1st Amendment free speech. Sooooo, maybe we can get St. Albans’ attention by suing them for promoting child abandonment. Maybe we could even accuse them of encouraging new mothers to feed their brand new babies to the nearest cows and sheep they can find. Maybe then we’ll see Mary and Joseph restored to their rightful place keeping the pigs and goats away from the Little Tyke.
I hope St. Alban himself pays the mayor a visit. Curious I looked up who this Saint is and his life, quite intersting. A snippet:
“According to this, St. Alban was a pagan living at Verulamium (now the town of St. Albans in Hertfordshire), when a persecution of the Christians broke out, and a certain cleric flying for his life took refuge in Alban’s house. Alban sheltered him, and after some days, moved by his example, himself received baptism. Later on, when the governor’s emissaries came to search the house, Alban disguised himself in the cloak of his guest and gave himself up in his place. He was dragged before the judge, scourged, and, when he would not deny his faith, condemned to death.”
So, the Mayor’s town is named after a Saint who gave himself up to death rather than deny his faith. As a Christian, I am now beginning to feel persecuted for my beliefs..but that does not matter right?
As a Jew I find this whole anti-Christmas/anti-Jesus/anti-faith abominable.
St. Albans. The town was named after a CHRISTIAN saint.
Oy vey!
As Rabbi Hillel said so eloquently about the same time as Jesus lived, “that which is hateful to you do not do to your fellow man.” Fine words to live by to this day.
I wish this whole thing would stop.
Merry Christmas, y’all.
St. Albans, West Virginia, not a town where I would ever want to live!