Samuel Rodriguez
President, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference

Samuel Rodriguez

Rodriguez is founding pastor of Third Day Worship Centers and President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

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Christ and The Cookie Monster

Christ and The Cookie monster both stand as victims of 21st Century American political correctness. Surely these two characters, left uncensored, pose a serious threat that can undermine Western Civilization and catapult America into a downward spiral resulting in the collapse of our society as we know it. Or some may argue.

What is about the Christ that makes Americans so uncomfortable? What is about the boy in the manger that provokes us to convert a Christmas tree into a Holiday tree, Merry Christmas into Happy Holidays and Christmas break into Winter Recess?

We celebrate without trepidation the births and lives of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Columbus and Martin Luther King Jr., however we find it difficult to explicitly acknowledge that the trappings, décor and celebrations pertaining to the last week of December commemorate the birth of arguably the most important figure in the history of mankind.

Truth be told, we abide in the temple of political correctness where Sesame Street DVD’s come with a parental warning because Oscar was too grouchy, The Cookie Monster ate too many sweets and some of the Muppets may provoke anxiety due to their horrific depictions.

We live in a hypersensitive, adjudicated and highly volatile environment where affective outcomes hold truth hostage in the prison of revisionism under the guise of tolerance.

At the end of the day, political correctness exists for those who desire to circumvent truth and live in a world of moral relativism. Let us apply the sentiment of those across the pond and acknowledge the impact of the boy in the manger. And while we are at it, let us acknowledge that what we may fear is not the celebration of the Christ child but rather the confrontation with his message of forgiveness, tolerance, grace and healing.

By Samuel Rodriguez  |  December 20, 2007; 7:26 AM ET Save & Share:  Send E-mail   Facebook   Twitter   Digg   Yahoo Buzz   Del.icio.us   StumbleUpon   Technorati  
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Angela, thanks for your response.

Being an "authentic Christian" has nothing to do with not opposing someone's views. In fact, I would encourage anyone to develop a deep sense and understanding of their own views. Read, read, and read some more, I'd say. I'd recommend for anyone to read "Mistakes were Made, but Not By Me," by Tavris and Aronson. (I'm assuming your original intent was to convey to me that you'd never be hostile or confrontational to a difference of opinion, which I very much respect and agree, in some instances, might be Christ-like.) I would encourage us all to learn all we can, about both sides of an equation.

I don't believe most people in this country are offended by Christmas nor by mention of Jesus. I think that's a very weak and old argument about the "persecuted Christians" in the USA. In Utah, it was about "persecuted Mormons."


I've heard that this "war on Christmas" has been declared for many years now, but I agree it's taken on a new dimension these last years as people (correctly) have begun to catch on to the degree to which fundamentalist Christians have moved their agenda into the public realm. Sometimes, it's time to push back. In case you didn't know this, there was little publicity recently when the Congress actually spent time and effort to pass a House resolution that declared "Christmas and Christians important to the US." This, in light of the complex and ongoing horrible things happening in the US and world, and the need for our Congress to work toward real solutions. I'm very aware of the disaster in Sudan, and in fact have befriended some of the Sudanese refugees from there.


Yes, I'm very familiar with the parable of the sower. However, there comes a time when one cannot deny their interpretation of reality; to choose against "faith" when it's ushered in with baggage of injustice, misinformation, scandal, and grasps for power.

As for the last comment about what "real believers" should do, and in response to the quote: "...We as believers, the real believers cannot convert anyone nor do we try to; it's not about converting to our religion or joining our church...", I'd remind you (as a former Christian for 46 years) as well about the great commission: Yes, Christianity is a completely proselytizing monotheism (with a trinity twist.)

"All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. (Matthew 28:18-20)

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Posted by: Jeff P | December 21, 2007 2:13 PM
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Rev.Rodriguez
“What is it about the Christ that makes Americans so uncomfortable?”

Whether you accept Him as true or scorn Him as make believe, He frequently moves all of us out of our comfort zones, it has always been so. There is no comfortable middle ground to blend into when it comes to Christ; one is either for or against Him.
Or as Jesus himself said "They who are not against us are on our side”.

Posted by: 4th watch | December 21, 2007 9:28 AM
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Holy Wars! What has Christmas got to do with the dubious birth of a person known as Jesus? Most scriptural Christian scholars will tell you that even his reported Biblical birth does not fit the Winter Solstice which was just stolen for the purpose of exploiting a "pagan" holiday for religious indoctrination. As for Christmas trees, wreaths, c’mon: In Palestine? Santa Claus, toys, mangers, Angels, the whole hocus-pocus may make good theatre but can hardly be distorted to have any Christian basis! Then we get to the twisted inside out stories of Virgin Births, wise man and shepherds, unknown tax collections and censuses, absurd day trips to far lands, incense and Myrrh, guiding stars, etc.; great fun perhaps, but religious?

Posted by: Chaotician | December 21, 2007 9:16 AM
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It's not Christ that makes Americans so uncomfortable - it's the neochristians' war against the Constitution and religious freedoms.

In their "war against secularism" and to "take the Nation back for Christ", neochristians are trying to make what was once a Constitutional democracy into their own private Jesuslandia.

As long as neochristians wage this war, there will be a strong backlash, something neochristians caused and now conveniently label "hypersensitivity"

Posted by: Roy | December 21, 2007 8:43 AM
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And here it goes.

See what it does, when you say that, Rev Rodriguez?


Posted by: Paganplace | December 20, 2007 6:08 PM
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"What is about the boy in the manger that provokes us to convert a Christmas tree into a Holiday tree"

I'd like to get an answer from Mr. Rodriguez to this:

What is it about a boy in a manger in the Judea that provokes us to convert a Pagan display celebrating light and life and the return of the sun on the longest night of the year into a Christmas tree?

Glede Lys!

Posted by: Thor's Child | December 20, 2007 3:27 PM
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This is in response to Jeff P's comments: First, I'd like to say most have an opinion and then there's truth; Merriam-Webster's definition defines it morally, biblically and common-sense wise. Also, I being an authentic Christian would never oppose your views but there's no doubt that Christmas and Jesus Christ's name offends most people. When did all of this begin; this wasn't the case years ago. I'm not offended by other holidays (e.g., Halloween) nor do I really care if non-believers, Wican's, Jehovah Witnesses, pagans believe or not believe but what I consider most surprising when I hear people say they were Christians which is to say you were you a false convert (do you remember the parable of the sower). Also, each day, I remember and live by Jesus' commandents; Love the Lord with all your mind, soul and strength and love thy neighbor as yourself. Lastly, you should really read what's going on all over Africa, i.e., Darfur the Sudan, where children, woman, men are being tortured and/or killed because they won't convert to Islam. We as believers, the real believers cannot convert anyone nor do we try to; it's not about converting to our religion or joining our church it's about showing the Love of Christ in our everyday walk and speaking the truth, not our opionion, in love.

Posted by: Angela B. | December 20, 2007 3:26 PM
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Samuel; you said it perfectly; Merry Christmas to you and yours and may you experience the peace and joy of this Christmas! I'm in awe each Christmas that someone who loves us so much would be born to die!

LOVE, IN CHRIST!

Posted by: Angela B. | December 20, 2007 3:08 PM
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"What is about the Christ that makes Americans so uncomfortable?"

That is an interesting question, but a presumtion about "Americans". I can only speak for myself, of course, but I am an American and Christ does not make me uncomfortable. I quite like him. It is a large number of his followers that make me uncomfortable.

You know, the ones who send their children into mall parking lots to "sell" (for a small donation)posters depicting the horrors of Hell. the ones who spray paint Bible verses on expressway overpasses (defacing public property). The ones who put the little stickers with Bible verses on the door frame at the supermarket (not their property). The ones who don't commit sins ONLY because they don't have the free time while they are busy trying to run the lives of strangers who do...in their opinion. Like the Westboro Baptist Church, even though Shirley Phelps Roeper admits in a British documentary that she is a fornicating adultress with a b*stard child. Oh, and these are Americans...they are also NOT made uncomfortable by Christ, nor are they threatened by him as their actions show.

No, Christ I like! The man NEVER made ME uncomfortable.

Posted by: Are you KIDDING?! | December 20, 2007 12:20 PM
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"What is about the Christ that makes Americans so uncomfortable?"

Maybe it's not discomfort; maybe it's consideration of the fact that there are religions that have nothing to do with your Christ, and even people who aren't religious at all?

Only extremist Christians can turn politeness into "persecution".

Posted by: minimalist | December 20, 2007 11:33 AM
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Good post Rev Rodriguez!

"We live in a hypersensitive, adjudicated and highly volatile environment where affective outcomes hold truth hostage in the prison of revisionism under the guise of tolerance."

"We" are "justified" in shutting "them" up.

The "we" and the "them" change, but the justifications are always the same.

Marcuse's Revenge!

The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty of America's Campuses

Have you ever read that book Rev.?

-Regards
GB

Posted by: ghostbuster | December 18, 2007 11:20 AM
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"What is about the Christ that makes Americans so uncomfortable?"

Actually, I think you've got that backwards: what is it about your Christ that makes you so uncomfortable with people *not* saying Christ (or shutting up and going unrepresented) in government while Christians cry 'Oppression' when they and they alone aren't allowed to push their religion via public property that belongs to *all* of us?

You want to blame the 'liberals and non-Christians' for *America* saying no to this sort of thing, perhaps forgetting that every time Christians get that kind of *government* power, that they silence everyone else, *you go at each other by sect, and then it gets *really* messy.

Why's no one fussed about King and Washington and Lincoln? a) They weren't religions that people try to disenfranchise non-members of, and b) They generally play well with others.

Like *we're* supposed to. As Americans. In the kind of America *they* built.

This 'PC' bogeyman of yours is hardly in power, in reality.

In reality, you can't get elected *without* saying 'God,' meaning the Christian one.

You wanna see a *really* messed-up holiday, try seeing kids dragged away from a spring festival cause some Christian decided that wearing flowers was the same thing as 'Satanic abuse' and thus called in DSS with false accusations.

Christians are actively vandalizing Pagan displays, threatening and attacking people of other religions, voting for totally-unconstitutional oppressions of innocent people, not to mention generally being complete *jerks* about what's supposed to be a pleasant holiday in just about every culture on Earth, .... cause people like *you* are teaching them that 'PC' is oppressing them somehow by not demanding everyone obey Christianity.

Have some eggnog, before the smallest violin in the world starts playing.


Posted by: Paganplace | December 17, 2007 8:12 PM
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It sure does seem that a lot of people get really upset when someone believes or doesn't believe exactly what they do, doesn't it?

I, for one, am sure glad that God is a lot nicer than some even want God to be.

Whatever label that you put on yourself is just that a label.

Sincerely, Thomas Paul Moses Baum.

Posted by: Thomas Baum | December 17, 2007 6:14 PM
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What Jeff P said.

Go, Jeff!

Posted by: Mr Mark | December 17, 2007 5:27 PM
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This was almost as good as Bill O'Reilly.

It's another fantasy on the "attack on Christmas" by "amoral non-believers" who want to take the candy from the hands of our beloved Christian children.

Last I looked, (living in Texas) there's at least one Christmas tree in the vast majority of homes, several decorated outside the homes with manger scenes, several "Jesus is the reason for the season" posters lit up through the night, the town square posted with Christmas decorations, the public park similarly decorated, state-mandated "under God" phrases in the Texas pledge, prayers before our public high-school events, a giant 10-Commandments stone on our State Capital grounds, Jesus-music piping through all of our malls 24 hours a day for the last few weeks, (radio and television as well,)acknowledgement of the Christian God at every sporting event I take my son to compete within, and a Jesus fish pasted next to an American flag on about every other SUV on the road.

Attack on Christmas?

But what's most insulting about your post is the assumption that somehow those who don't subscribe to the "correct" faith are somehow missing, or are even the enemies of "truth." That a non-believer might not have that passion to search for truth, reason, enlightenment. That black-and-white dichotomy that sets your teeth against "the world" is the very form of manichean delusion that drove me away from Christianity in the first place, and it among other things are against the very idea of forgiveness, grace, tolerance, and healing that you preach so eloquently.

Your "truths" have resulted and still result in some of the worst human atrocities in human history: I don't suspect you'll see any nuclear arms buildups outside of one form of theocracy or another--I don't see those "relative moralists" out there blowing one another up. Currently your "brothers in Christ" and keepers of truth are persecuting "witch children" in Africa at an alarming rate.

http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/12/the-witch-children-of-nigeria.html

Weird example? Maybe, but how about the Catholic bishop spreading the rumor that condoms contain HIV-tainted particles that will give wearers AIDS?

"Moral Relativism?" "Truth" adversaries?

Sorry about the rant but I find many many things offensive, inaccurate and ultimately harmful and separating about this "war on Christmas" post.


Posted by: Jeff P | December 17, 2007 4:37 PM
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Ditto what Lepidopteryx said.

BTW - the last I looked, we Americans don't in any way, shape or form celebrate the birthdays of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Columbus and Martin Luther King Jr. as religious holidays. Neither Oscar the Grouch or the Cookie Monster wears a Christ Nail around their necks.

You're analogy is off by a few degrees of religious fantasy.

Posted by: Mr Mark | December 17, 2007 11:40 AM
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"What is about the Christ that makes Americans so uncomfortable? What is about the boy in the manger that provokes us to convert a Christmas tree into a Holiday tree, Merry Christmas into Happy Holidays and Christmas break into Winter Recess?"

It isn't the Christ that's the problem. It's the fact that some of his followers are trying to make him a governmental entity for the rest of us.

""We celebrate without trepidation the births and lives of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Columbus and Martin Luther King Jr., however we find it difficult to explicitly acknowledge that the trappings, décor and celebrations pertaining to the last week of December commemorate the birth of arguably the most important figure in the history of mankind."

First of all, Washington et al were men whose existences and deeds are objectively verifiable, and whose deeds had a direct impact on this country and its development and government. Jesus is not.

"Truth be told, we abide in the temple of political correctness where Sesame Street DVD’s come with a parental warning because Oscar was too grouchy, The Cookie Monster ate too many sweets and some of the Muppets may provoke anxiety due to their horrific depictions."

I'm with you on that one.

"At the end of the day, political correctness exists for those who desire to circumvent truth and live in a world of moral relativism."

Nonsense. How is not wanting a religious display on the courthouse lawn moral relativism?

"Let us apply the sentiment of those across the pond and acknowledge the impact of the boy in the manger."

Okay, he was a nice Jewish boy who had some really cool ideas about how to get along with other people, even if he didn't invent those ideas.

"And while we are at it, let us acknowledge that what we may fear is not the celebration of the Christ child but rather the confrontation with his message of forgiveness, tolerance, grace and healing."

I don't fear the message. I fear the folks who call themselves his messengers, but who really seek to have their own theology entwined into the governmental policies that we all have to live by.


Posted by: lepidopteryx | December 17, 2007 11:27 AM
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