Happy Holidays? Bah! Humbug!

Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture ^ | December 2001 | Tom Piatak

[ouroboros]

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[StDonTheBaptist]

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[A.J.Armitage]

We're beginning to look a lot like pa-gans.

It's a good thing Ramadan floats around the year or we'd have to deal with it as a substitute for Christmas all the time. Ramadan is the only one that compares to Christmas in its importance to the people who practice it.

[vladog]

Christmas is a 'pagan' custom. The tree, yule log, and even gift giving can be traced to North European Tribes. The Vikings, Celts, and other tribes all had a Dec. fest of some sort. The date and time varied from tribe to tribe. All of this was before any of them heard of Christ. When they were finally converted they brought many of their customs with them.

[IronJack]

We need to reclaim Christmas. It's up to us. We can refuse to buy secular "holiday cards," refuse to let our children participate in "holiday pageants," at least the ones that don't include a preponderance of Christmas themes, beleaguer school administrators to muffle celebrations of other religions' holidays (got to keep that wall between church and state y'know), and in general refuse to patronize those establishments or traditions at odds with the Christian roots of the season.

CHRISTMAS IS A CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY! If the people who want to celebrate it refuse to acknowledge that, then they just want a day off work and a few cheap presents.

[IronJack]

Christmas is a 'pagan' custom.

Every year we hear that same dull drum. So what? The THEME isn't pagan. The SUBJECT isn't pagan. Okay. It happens to fall on the winter solstice, the Saturnalia, some Druid queen's birthday. The DAY isn't important. But the celebration of the Redeemer's birth IS. And how ashamed He would be if He could see the festival of greed it has become.

[arimus]

By jove! You've nailed it.....

I would say the assault comes from within.
The enemy is in the camp.

[arimus]

....and in the heart.

[B4Ranch]

What The UN Doesn't Want You To Know

The Communist multiculturalists in our Congress have promoted their socialist beliefs from the United Nations into our Press, Television, Educational systems, Law Enforcement systems, Supreme Court, Congress, Senate and White House. Christian beliefs surely are anti UN, therefore they will continue to be pushed away from our schools, government, state and national laws. The general population is not aware of this of course because they have been effectively divided and conquered into ethnic groups much more worried about equality and status.

Our President recently gave 585 million taxpayer dollars to the United Nations when just a few months before they kicked us off the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Instead of America they selected Sudan,(the worlds one country that supports slavery) Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Togo, to a three-year rotating membership. These countries will join Syria, Algeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam amongst the 53 member Human Rights Commision.

Down in Georgia there is a battle going on about a Judge who has the Ten Commandments on his courtroom walls. How can he possibly decide cases of Muslims or Hindus believing in the Christian religion?

Refugees and immigrants continue to come into the US and apply for welfare, housing, medical care and any other program that is free to them. With hand votes in our Senate, that are meant to keep records from our view, Bills are passed that will guarantee Socialism is our future. It won't be long before the privately own firearms are confiscated and destroyed. Then the New World Odor (Order)will be the only scent in our air.

Happy Holidays to all who just sit back and allow this to happen?. I don't think so.

WHAT IS A PATRIOT ?

PATRIOTS are not "Revolutionaries" trying to overthrow the government of the United States.

PATRIOTS are "Counter-Revolutionaries" trying to prevent the government of the United States from overthrowing the Constitution of the United States. - Unknown Author

[ex-snook]

One Solitary Life

He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher.

He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never traveled more than two hundred miles from the place where he was born. He did none of the things one usually associates with greatness.

He was only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned against him. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave.

Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today he is a central figure of the human race and leader of mankind's progress.

All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the kings that ever reigned have not affected the life of man as much as that One Solitary Life - Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND PEACE TO MEN OF GOOD WILL

[jmp702]

Excellent post

[arimus]

Doing good.
How come when we meet here...a storm is always bearing down!
: )

It starts with our own unrepentant sin and goes out from there. I always found the Old Testament [You know, that evil, old, irrelavant set of books ; ) ] to be extremely helpful. Our sinful compromises are the very tools of our discipline. Recognition of that helps see that the Left, liberals, and assorted enemies of the like are here becasue we ain't ready yet to move on. Destroying them is more than just there physical removal...
Something is amiss "in the house."
Judgement begins at the House of the Lord.

[IM2Phat4U]

Merry Christmas!

[GraniteStateConservative]

The Catholic Church forbade the participation in Saturnalia, but the people didn't abide by the declaration, so they surrendered and decided to try to turn it into a solemn Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.

They are still trying...

[jmp702]

BTTT

[MistyCA]

Thanks for the ping!