Manger Scene Set Back

Last Christmas we promised to follow up on the battle between the US Air Force at Travis AFB in California and the atheists.  For many years visitors and residents of the base enjoyed the festive sight of a manger scene and a Hanukkah menorah (hanukkiyah) at the main intersection near the entrance to the base.  After a complaint from several attention seeking atheists last Christmas, Air Force brass invited them to display their own sign along with the other holiday greetings.  Last year the Nativity scene and menorah were still at the center of the holiday display right up front next to the sidewalk near the intersection.  But this year, for the first time, both the Nativity scene and the menorah were relegated to a position far removed from the curb, almost out of sight, lest they offend one of the atheists.

Manger Scene and Menorah Center Stage at Travis AFB Christmas Display Last Year (2011)

Manger Scene and Menorah Barely Visible in Background This Year (2012)

War on Christmas

This is a disturbing trend in the War on Christmas which is part of the overall campaign by secular progressives to undermine Christianity.  Earlier this month the Washington Post (gleefully) reported that ‘Unbelief’ is now the third largest religion in the world.  A study released December 18, 2012 by The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that 84% of the world’s population believes in some form of religion.  Of those individuals, Christians formed the largest group at 32% of the world’s population, followed by Muslims with 23 %.  But the third largest group out of the 7 billion people in the world included those with no religious belief, coming in at 16% or 1.1 billion people.  That’s still looks like a small minority to me, so why are we allowing them to impose their will on the rest of us!

Declining Military Moral Values 

Anyone want to bet that next year the manger and menorah will be gone altogether at Travis AFB?  I would not be surprised to see the symbols of our Judeo-Christian heritage slowly eased out of the picture at the air force base.  It all fits with the overall decline in moral values that has predictably taken place in the military since Barack Obama lowered the moral standards for military personnel!  It should have been no surprise, with sodomy now being actively promoted in the barracks, when the top echelons of the military were rocked by a sex scandal…think Generals Petraeus and Allen!  To close on a positive note, however, I heard lots of folks greeting each other with ‘Merry Christmas’ this year, including clerks at most of the stores I visited.  Even the atheists’ sign at Travis AFB included a Christmas greeting.  The War on Christmas ain’t over yet!