jayinsat wrote:Although the left will launch a full assault on gun rights and many of you have blamed movies, games etc, I believe all those reasons miss the mark. Nothing like this happened before God, and more specifically, the fear of The Lord was banned from society and our schools. Our kids are not allowed to pray, Jesus name can't be mentioned and God, we are told, is just a fairy tell. Even Christmas is forbidden. It's X-mas so we don't offend.
Without a moral fiber, humanity will rapidly devolve into its most base form. We are clearly seeing this. Our moral foundation was built upon the 10 commandments and we've shattered that. Why wouldn't we expect evil to reign?
Who's offended now?
There are many schools in which the Declaration of Independence, The Preamble to the Constitution and speeches like Nathan Hale's (in which he gives thanks to God and calls on his providence) are disallowed from the reading in school.I don't agree about the Christmas abbreviation though. The "X" is an English transliteration of a ligature used in several (especially illuminated) texts both Biblical and in old copies of the Catechism. It is the combination of the Greek letters Chi and Rho. The first two letters in the Greek word "Christos". It has been the recognized logo of the Logos and used since the time of Constantine (Who supplanted the pagan celebration of the winter solstice with this Christian holiday) but the "P" type charachter "Rho" was absorbed and CHRISTmass > Christmas has been written often as X-mas since the 17th century in Anglican and other Protestant denominations.
