Posted on 12/24/2024 12:08:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Every year, various movie versions of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol air on our televisions, reminding us of the importance of putting others first and how Christmas is a time of reconciliation instead of division.
Unfortunately, in modern-day America, we have forgotten that message.
After Donald Trump’s recent election victory, leftist Yale fellow Amanda Calhoun commented on why family members who voted for Kamala Harris should refuse to celebrate the holidays with their friends and family members: “So, if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you … it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why.”
As I write in my recent book, Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream: “This is not new. In the last few political cycles, commentators on the Left openly called for children to confront, vilify, and humiliate any relatives, including parents, who may have voted for conservatives, at family get-togethers such as Thanksgiving and Christmas.”
Thus, these holidays, when Americans normally put their differences aside to appreciate each other, have turned into a battle royale of angry partisan warfare.
I have a dear friend who has had a wonderful relationship with his older brother for over 60 years despite their political differences. My friend is a conservative Republican, and his brother is a far-left Democrat. On the day after the election, his brother posted that he will no longer talk to nor associate with friends and family — including his brother — if they voted for Trump or any other Republican...
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If lefties had a clue as to what the spirit of Christmas is, they wouldn’t be lefties.
Exactly.
If lefties had a clue as to what the spirit of Christmas is, they wouldn’t be lefties.
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Winner!
The best thing to do is to keep them away.
Family, a build back better, state project.
Yep.
I always shun evil. We’re supposed to do that, right?
Far away.
It is their religion they worship 24/7/365. Good news is it saves you aggrivation having to lesten to their preaching.
Christmas is to some of us a celebration of Christ’s birth. To others it is just a secular feast and gift exchanging holiday.
If I had family members that are offended by the focus on Christ and the shunning of secularism, then too bad.
Luke 12:51-53 (ESV):
“Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
Meaning, to me, Christ first. If certain family members have a problem with that, then shun them I will. If they are not Christian and they are willing to listen, that is fantastic and they are more than welcome.
It is an affront to being a sane, normal human.
That’s correct.
Well said.
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You know, after the 2020 election I never heard of any conservative people refusing to talk to or to meet with family members or friends after the election or on holidays...
The only time I ever hear of this is when liberals do the rejection....
I missed the other Bible verse where the wise men from the East obeyed Herod and ignored the divine warning in their dreams, and so told Herod where Jesus was - for the sake of overlooking political different beliefs.
Baptism is your public announcement of Faith after you get Saved by Believing (IMHO)
Mark 16:15-16
New American Standard Bible
15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation.
16 The one who has Believed and has been Baptized will be Saved; but the one who has not believed will be condemned.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2016%3A15-16&version=NASB
John 3:17-18
English Standard Version
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the World might be Saved through him.
18 Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the Name of the Only Son of God.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%203%3A17-18&version=ESV
Well said.
Most of my family are rabid Trump hating atheists. I can’t say I really care that I am not invited over because they talk about nothing else except how they are far more superior and educated than we conservative Christian apes.
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