Why The Grinch Is Stealing Christmas

Edward Gene Veith said in his commentary, http://www.leaderu.com/popculture/secularchristmas.html there is a new sort of antagonism driving today's anti-Christmas agenda. And while that's true, the source of the emnity and the type of people in whose hearts and minds it resides aren't anything new. Todays' hateful, antagonistic Grinches have always been around. Many of us may have one or more of this sort in our families or among our acquaintances. They are hardhearted, nitpicking, malice inspired, joy-destroying, whiners whose sadistic brand of maliciously twisted 'joy' comes only when they see others deprived of joy, love, happiness, goodwill, etc.

They are the eternal sufferers whose selfcentered minds are so focused upon themselves that they cannot see that everyone else suffers too; that suffering is a universally manifest human condition that calls for us to rise above....to overcome, but not to wallow in and self-pityingly cover ourselves in victimhood. So in their hardened, joyless, arid-hearts, they condemn the rest of us to suffer as they believe only they suffer. And then they act as judge and executioner by both handing down the sentence and carrying it out.

If the Grinch cannot feel joy, then like the selfish curmudgeon he is, he wants no one to feel joy. He is saying in effect, "If I don't or can't have it, then it's not fair for anyone else to have it, so you will not." And this really, is why the hardhearted, selfcentered Grinches among us are trying to destroy Christmas.