{"id":2811,"date":"2009-12-24T00:45:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T08:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2009-12-24T00:50:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T08:50:38","slug":"merry-christmas-from-christianfighterpilot-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-from-christianfighterpilot-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from ChristianFighterPilot.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>God and Country<\/em> will return on 28 December.\u00a0 In the meantime, we leave you with the words of President Barack Obama, chatting with\u00a0children during a visit to a Boys and Girls Club\u00a0in Washington, DC.\u00a0 Amazingly, at least one person has\u00a0implied Obama\u00a0violated the Constitution in making\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/remarks-president-boys-and-girls-club\">these comments<\/a>.\u00a0 The relationship between those in government service, the Constitution, and religion is certainly controversial&#8211;and misunderstood&#8211;in America today.\u00a0 Kudos to the President for not shying away\u00a0from the legitimate discussion\u00a0of religious beliefs, as well as respecting those of the children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have a wonderful celebration of the birth of our Savior.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Merry <\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Christ<\/span>mas<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 You know, I think that the most important thing is just to remember why we celebrate Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>CHILD:\u00a0 I know!<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Do you know?<\/p>\n<p>CHILD:\u00a0 The birth of baby Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 The birth of baby Jesus, <!--more-->and what he symbolizes for people all around the world is the possibility of peace and people treating each other with respect&#8230;You know, it&#8217;s not just about getting gifts but it&#8217;s also doing something for other people.\u00a0 So being nice to your mom and dad and grandma and aunties and showing respect to people &#8212; that&#8217;s really important too, that&#8217;s part of the Christmas spirit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Do you have an interesting observation?<\/p>\n<p>CHILD:\u00a0 I know why we give gifts to other people.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Why is that?<\/p>\n<p>CHILD:\u00a0 Because the three wise men gave gifts to baby Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 That&#8217;s exactly right&#8230;The three wise men&#8230;have all this money, they&#8217;ve got all this wealth and power, and yet they took a long trip to a manger just to see a little baby.\u00a0 And it just shows you that just because you&#8217;re powerful or you&#8217;re wealthy, that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s important.\u00a0 What&#8217;s important is what&#8217;s &#8212; the kind of spirit you have.<\/p>\n<p>So I hope everybody has a spirit of kindness and thoughtfulness, and everybody is really thinking about how can they do for other people &#8212; treating them well, because that&#8217;s really the spirit of Christmas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">First reported at the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/obama-gives-christmas-message-to.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God and Country will return on 28 December.\u00a0 In the meantime, we leave you with the words of President Barack Obama, chatting with\u00a0children during a visit to a Boys and Girls Club\u00a0in Washington, DC.\u00a0 Amazingly, at least one person has\u00a0implied Obama\u00a0violated the Constitution in making\u00a0these comments.\u00a0 The relationship between those in government service, the Constitution, and religion is certainly controversial&#8211;and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[20,108,4,82,19,43,10],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-atheism","tag-christmas","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-government","tag-obama","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}