My little darling, it’s not hot outside!

Once again, it’s the Christmas season, which means I have to put up with people offended by everything, especially when it comes to Christmas.

When I was young, we had a little saying: “Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.” And, as I understand it, we kept that saying.

Most people today have never heard that saying and maybe someone should educate them on some of the realities of life. If words hurt you, something is wrong with you.

Everyone is offended by something. I get offended by people who get offended by things I say, which doesn’t make any sense to me.

Where people got this disease ofofenditis is beyond me. I wonder if there is any cure for this type of disease.

I was in the restaurant the other day and behind me, a person sneezed. Instinctively, I turned around and said, “God bless you.”

Of course, I wasn’t ready for the answer when the man told me, “I’m an atheist, don’t you dare use that word ‘God’ around me.”

I’m a gentleman, otherwise I might have been tempted to say something like, “Well then, God damn you.” Fortunately, I didn’t say anything like that. I wonder if unspoken thoughts really matter in this regard.

What puzzles me is why someone who doesn’t believe in God would be offended by the word “GOD”. The fact that he was offended by that word tells me that somewhere deep inside he believes there is a God. Otherwise, he would never have offended him.

If I were an atheist and someone told me “God bless you”, I would laugh because I don’t believe in God. Being offended by something you don’t believe in has to be the epitome of stupid.

Another offensive phrase is “Merry Christmas.” I mentioned this to a person I passed in the store and he looked at me like Scrooge and said, “Don’t you dare wish me a Merry Christmas.”

I would like to know why two words like “Merry Christmas” are offensive to someone.

Being an amateur word creator, I like to research words and try to discover their original meaning. There is no way that I have found that the two words “Merry” and “Christmas” have anything offensive to them. Those offended by those two words have a smokeless chimney.

If you are offended by those two words, perhaps you should consider the fact that I may be offended that you are offended by those words. What offends one person makes no sense to another. This is America, so keep your offensive attitude on yourself.

Just the other day I was walking into a store and there was a lady behind me, so like a gentleman, I opened the door for her and said, “Ladies first.” It would be hard for me to understand how offensive those two words are.

The lady looked at me and said, “That’s the most sexist thing I’ve heard all day.”

I’ve been trying to figure out what’s sexist about those two words.

I’m homophobic (whatever that means), racist, or sexist. I don’t know if I’m all these things at different times or what. I never know if I am one of these until someone tells me I am one.

There are Christmas songs that we can no longer put on the radio, movies that we can no longer watch at Christmas, decorations that we can no longer put outside our house.

I recently heard that the song “Baby, it’s cold outside” is offensive to some people. I’ve listened to it for years and I can’t figure out the offensive side of that song.

What’s crazy to me is that those offended by that song are completely okay with a singer walking onstage without clothes, singing a song drenched in depravity with lewd lyrics that you can’t wear in public.

Why is it okay and not sexist, but when I open the door for a lady and say, “Ladies first,” is that sexist?

Some people refer to this as the war on Christmas. If that’s true, I think those people are losing that war. No matter what they say or think, I will continue to celebrate Christmas, wishing people “Merry Christmas” and saying “God bless you” when someone sneezes and opens the door for the ladies.

If those things offend people, I’m happy and delighted to continue doing them.

For years, there has been a war against Christmas, but it seems that Christmas comes at the same time every year. Isn’t it just amazing? No matter what people say or how offended they are by it, Christmas just keeps coming.

I could think of quite a few things that would offend me. However, I have a thick skin and a tender heart. My life does not depend on someone being offended.

One of my favorite Bible verses is in the book of Proverbs.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths” (Proverbs 3:5-6).

I refuse to let people who are offended by everything lead my way. My trust is not in man, but “in the Lord.”