A Salvation Army bell ringer and minister who was collecting donations and spreading holiday cheer in front of a Walmart store in Roseville, California, got the shock of his life Wednesday when he was battered by an unidentified man for wishing him a “merry Christmas.”

“He haymakered me, hit me, got me down on the ground and we started wrestling, at that point I’m fighting for my life,” the Rev. Jamie Wolfe, Sr., told CBS Sacramento.

It was “definitely unexpected,” Wolfe, who suffered bumps and bruises from the attack, said. “I greet everybody ‘merry Christmas.'”

Police say the bell ringer’s attacker is still on the run but there’s hope that surveillance video can identify the man who tried to silence Wolfe’s Christmas cheer.

Lt. Steve Pavlakis with the Salvation Army told CBS, “[The] store says they love him and he’s been the best bell ringer they’ve ever had, so an attack that’s unprovoked is very surprising and very unfortunate. It’s not the call we’d expect to get at night. It’s really saddening that one of our bell ringers would be out there working day after day for us that’s met with hate and punches to the face and kicks to the face.”

The “merry Christmas” greeting has been a flashpoint in the “war on Christmas” debate in recent years.

While on the campaign trail in 2015, President Donald Trump promised that he would do away with political correctness and push the traditional “merry Christmas” greeting at “every store.”

“I’m a good Christian. If I become president, we’re gonna be saying ‘merry Christmas’ at every store,” he promised voters in Iowa in 2015. “You can leave ‘happy holidays’ at the corner.”

Just last month as he lit up the Christmas tree at the White House, he tweeted: “Today is a day that I’ve been looking very much forward to ALL YEAR LONG. It is one that you have heard me speak about many times before. Now, as President of the United States, it is my tremendous honor to finally wish America and the world, a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!”

SOURCE : http://praisebars.com/salvation-army-pastor-beaten-wishing-man-merry-christmas/

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Saddists every where lol

Perhaps to him There's nothing MerrY About the Xmas!!


Merry Xmas to everybody in advance