A Sad Christmas Story

And yet another sad story of how America is marching down the path of doom and communism.
This was taken from a Yahoo news story, it is abbreviated:

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ST. ALBANS, W.Va. - Christ is missing from Christmas in this small town. The community's holiday display has a manger with shepherds, a guiding star, camels and a palm tree, but no baby Jesus, Mary or Joseph
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Besides the obvious reason why the story is unsettling what I find completely ironic is that the towns name is SAINT Albans. Are we now close to having the ACLU, the Communist-Democrats, Liberal-Homosexual movement start renaming our towns and cities by removing words such as Saint? Why do you laugh? If they can remove Christ and the freedom of religious expression which this country's foundations were based on, Judeo-Christian principles, anything is possible.

Upon further research I found out who St. Alban was. The below paragraph was taken from: www.stalbanswestwood.com

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Alban is the earliest Christian in Britain who is known by name and, according to tradition, the first British martyr. He was a soldier in the Roman army stationed at Verulamium, a city about twenty miles northeast of London, now called St. Albans. He gave shelter to a Christian priest who was fleeing from persecution, and was converted by him. When officers came to Alban's house, he dressed himself in the garments of the priest and gave himself up. Alban was tortured and martyred in place of the priest, on the hilltop where the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St. Alban now stands. The traditional date of his martyrdom is 303 or 304, but recent studies suggest that the year was actually 209, during the persecution under the Emperor Septimius Severus.
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Are we close to this kind of martyrdom here? Don't think it can't happen here history always repeats itself. If they removed Christ from the manger they could remove you as they did many years ago to a man named Alban.

Merry Christmas,
Carey