Let’s take a look at the state of the Christmas holiday in 2013. Warning: this blog may be provocative and negatively influential, so I’ll be as brief as one can on such a subject.
There is a distinct likelihood that the holiday, as we know it, has been manipulated by the machinations of men, and it is possible that we are not celebrating the birth of Christ on the proper day. There, I’ve said it. In doing so, some folks may feel that, in spite of my life’s efforts, I may well have just purchased an irrevocable one-way ticket aboard the satanic express train to that other place, where a private fate teeming with brimstone and suffering await my damaged soul. It’s hard to talk about things like this and not wonder about what one is saying when saying it. As a human being, I know that we are all making errors all the time, but when it comes to doing the ultimate duty to honor the birth of our Lord in whom we and millions of others believe, do we want to err this way? If nobody can claim December 25 as the actual birthday, let’s examine why we’re moving such important dates around for convenience’s sake (and I won’t even mention Easter).
All the writings and rumors point to a scheme perpetrated in the past by which our ancestors replaced a pagan holiday with a holy one, probably with the intent to realign people who, in the opinions of others, were in error by worshipping nature or practicing holistics or something of the sort. Sure, folks can argue this point and other aspects of our faith to exhaustion, and I certainly don’t want my spouting off about Christmas herein to become an all-out religious argument (which it often does when somebody brings this matter up in the first place, and I’m certainly not the first). So let’s take a breath and get down to the real question.
My question is this: Who, if anybody, knows on what day Jesus was actually born, and why has it not been shared, if somebody does know what day it is?
Maybe it has something to do with the history of the day itself. Christmas was supposedly banned in the United States for a while, then it came back, then it gained the trees and holly and songs and carols. In modern consumer times it has ballooned into a free-for-all in the malls, theft, debt and mayhem. Every time I read about people being trampled over a piece of merchandise, or a town hall arguing over whether a snowman can be displayed on the lawn if a crèche cannot, I shake my head.
How can one day on a calendar be such a disaster? If we can put an end to all the misinformation and correct our erroneous ways, why not get started on it now, before we have another season of mistakes? How do yule logs, faith and annual cheese log catalogs all fit together when the real idea of the day is to celebrate a life-changing birth?
(Part Two is coming, if the results of Part One permit.)
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