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So just what is a “Merry Christmas”? Is it something less or something more than a “Pleased Holiday”? What IS Christmas anyway? Isn’t Christmas what it’s always been: whatever we individually choose to make it? But then there’s the broader social picture wherein governments have a SAY in what Christmas is and is not.  

Once upon a time, Christmas in America was all about what Jews and Christians (Protestants and Catholics) said it was.

But, the world is much smaller these days and the “IN” word is GLOBAL and globalization. We’re not that far removed from the Copenhagen Summit to forget that are we? The third world nations, the under-developed nations, the dictatorial nations, and a mix of adjectives attached to some 175 nations now want a SAY in everything.

Global warming is right there with Christmas!

America isn’t what she was fifty years ago, nor even a decade ago. The Obama administration is moving America from a capitalistic free enterprise nation into a socialistic secular one. The increase in diversity due to immigration and mobility of the planet’s citizens is making America a less white Anglo Saxon Christian nation. And every segment of this diverse enterprise called America is getting a massive make-over.

We are not of one nature on December 25th and then something else on January 25th.

We are who we are and that is very fluid and dynamic. The grand experiment called the United States of America is wrestling with birth pangs. The caterpillar that we were, is dissolving in a chemical soup that will produce we know not what- yet! Let us hope it’s something gorgeous.

As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.

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