Anti-Christmas time again

Excerpt from an item by Ben Stein on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary:

My confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish.
And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful, lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are. Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year.

It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display …. it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.

Or may be I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?