Obama's Christmas Message? 1 of 2

Obama’s Christmas Message? – 1 of 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The President will give his first Christmas message in a couple days. Let’s compare it to past presidents. Chuck Norris has written a poignant and serious article for WorldNet Daily, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009, titled, Away with the Manger.

Chuck begins as follows: “I am willing to bet that President’s Obama’s Christmas address will shine with religious significance about as bright as his unusually short Thanksgiving Proclamation, which gave a token reference to God via a quote from George Washington…” However, you decide. Let’s begin with the good news from our past presidents.

1.) On Christmas Day, 1795, President George Washington with members of Congress at his Mount Vernon estate, complete with a fox hunt, feast including “Christmas pie,” music, dancing & visiting that at times continued for a solid week.

2.) America’s second president, John Adams, was the first to hold a White House Christmas party.

3.) Thomas Jefferson loved celebrating Christmas, from his youth considering the day as a time of “merriment” and “The day of greatest mirth and jollity.” He threw elaborate parties at the White House and his Monticello estate for family and friends, played his violin, sang his favorite Christmas song, “Adeste Fideles” (“Oh Come All Ye Faithful”),…

4.) President Abraham Lincoln read the Bible throughout his life and attended services at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church on a regular basis, including Christmas time. During the Civil War he and his wife would visit hospitals on Christmas to help care for the wounded. During one political campaign, he declared “ I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; & I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general … I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of religion.”

5.) In 1870 President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the bill that made Christmas Day a national holiday.

6.) Sen. Kennedy disclosed at the National Conference of Christians and Jews Dinner in 1957 what he believed would remedy the ills of society: “Upon what we rely? In what can we find hope for the future? The answer, I believe, lies in the very principles which we honor tonight – the principles of our Judaic-Christian heritage.

7.) President Ronald Reagan repeatedly, affirmed his and the nations’ Christian faith at Christmas time, like these words on Dec. 16, 1982, “In this holiday season, we celebrate the birthday of One who, for almost 2,000 years, has been a greater influence on humankind than all the rulers, all the scholars, all the armies and all the navies that ever marched or sailed, all put together … {I}t’s also a holy day, the birthday of the Prince of Peace, a day when ‘God so loved the world’ that He sent us His only begotten Son to assure forgiveness of our sins.”
George H. Kubeck