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G-Pop listened very carefully as the commentator attempted to explain that the “culture of the Syrian government” is what brought about the use of poison gas on the people.
G-Pop frowned.
Evil is not a culture. Also not a preference. It’s not a religious institution nor a political profile.
Yet we have taken the past fifty years to qualify the choices of folks who live in different countries by attributing questionable actions to their culture.
It’s time for a bold statement. There is only one culture, and that is love your neighbor as yourself.
Within that culture, there are people who have different traditions, cuisine, mannerisms, guidelines and even morals. But there is no way to continue human life on Earth without consenting to a mutual consideration to each other’s feelings. G-Pop thinks we should carry it even further:
It’s not a bunch of liberal hogwash just to make things prissy. Here’s the truth G-Pop wishes to share: if we do not have an awareness of other people that’s equivalent to the awareness we have of ourselves, we begin to believe they are not flesh and blood like we are, but instead are surrounded by tissue which feels no pain–therefore we can inflict at will.
There is no room for gender bias.
There is no acceptable occasion for prejudice against gays, lesbians and different races. Why? Because that breaks the cultural rule.
Whether you’re from China, Canada, Zimbabwe or Albuquerque, New Mexico, you are sharing a planet that requires respectful give and take.
If you happen to like your beans with jalapenos or if your rendition of Christmas is called “Kwanzaa” or “Hanukkah” that is absolutely fine.
But when your definition of culture differs from the toleration necessary for us to get along with each other in equity, then you’re no longer expressing a regional phenomenon, but instead, a cover-up for iniquity.
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Do you think there’s a need for saying “Happy Holidays” as opposed to “Merry Christmas?”
Mary and Russell were my parents, and when they birthed me they named me Jonathan Richard Cring.
I had an uncle who immediately dubbed me “Johnny.”
One of my older brothers called me “Rock.”
Aunt Mary thought I was better suited to “Little Jon.”
I had one friend, Mack, who always enjoyed referring to me as “J.”
Many, many friends rejoiced over proclaiming me “Big Jon.”
One business associate in Nashville, Tennessee, recognized me as “J. R.”
And of course, countless folks have shortened my Jonathan to just Jon.
At no time during all these transitions did I lose my identity, nor fail to respond to a beckoning.
Likewise, Christmas does not lose any of its impetus by being referred to as “Happy Holidays”–especially when you consider that the word “holiday” is an Old English version of “Holy Day.”
Jesus is not diminished by “Season’s Greetings,” since he is the “reason for the season.”
And even the tiny handful who might call the occasion “Winter Solstice” are still surrounded by innumerable manger scenes dusted by snow.
Yes–the critics are outnumbered.
Sixteen million Jews worldwide may celebrate Hanukkah and twenty million African-Americans may honor Kwanza, but two-and-a-half billion people over the Earth worship the Baby of Bethlehem.
It’s not even close.
And when we become defensive over the terminology of Christmas, we miss the whole point of the message of “Peace on Earth, good will toward men.”
We fail to recognize that Jesus, himself, said “those who are not against us are for us.”
So a Jewish family which lights a candle, and a family in the inner city of Chicago which dresses in African garb and jubilantly trumpets the celebration are certainly not against the Christ child.
Jesus was not defensive.
Jesus did not insist on silencing those who had different opinions, but rather, welcomed questioning.
So I will tell you, it doesn’t matter what people say to me–what I hear is “Merry Christmas.”
And may I point out–it is impossible to hide, disguise, obliterate or even marginalize the effects of that one solitary life which changed the dynamics of the planet–whose birth even set time in motion.
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