MORE ON THE ORIGNAL POST:

I did a search on the original post and found that it has been altered. Take a look at http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/benstein2.asp

Below is the original text from Ben Stein:
Quote:

Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions
from my beating heart:
I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see
them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I
am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask
the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know
who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it
change my life if I know who they are and why they
have broken up? Why are they so important? I don't
know who Lindsay Lohan is, either, and I do not care at
all about Tom Cruise's wife.
Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and
asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no
clue who Nick and Jessica are. Is this what it means to
be no longer young. It's not so bad.
Next 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 at a key intersection near my beach house in
Malibu. If people want a creche, 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. I have
no idea where the concept came from that America is an
explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the
Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my
throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea
come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and
we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand
Him?
I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there
are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and
Jessica came from and where the America we knew went
to.



In its original form, I actually agree with this completely.