{"id":19557,"date":"2010-12-14T10:10:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=19557"},"modified":"2010-12-14T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T17:10:59","slug":"the-war-on-everything-thats-not-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/the-war-on-everything-thats-not-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"The War on Everything That&#8217;s Not &#8220;Christmas&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Christmas. \u00a0I love it as a religious holiday. \u00a0And I love the secular side of the Christmas season &#8212; the gift-giving, the Santas, the food, the getting together with family and friends. \u00a0And as a symbol of light in the darkness, I like and appreciate all the winter holidays that people celebrate at this time of year, across cultures and religions.<\/p>\n<p>For some folks, though, You&#8217;re Either <em>For <\/em>Christ, or <em>Against <\/em>Christ.<\/p>\n<table style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal arial; 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What's with the Christmas decorations downtown in The City? Have we celebrated Thanksgiving yet? Stay in line, holidays! No cuts! View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129163,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/and-theyll-know-we-are-christians-by-our-love-texas-ag-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":19557,"position":5},"title":"And They&#039;ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love (Texas Ag Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Dec-15 6:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sid Miller, the Texas Agriculture Commissioner, has had it with people insulting him.\"If one more person says Happy Holidays to me I just might slap them. Either tell me Merry Christmas or just don't say anything.\"Yes! This! Exactly the message that Christ Himself preached! 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