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Pagan Propaganda: The Other Attack on Christmas

War on Christmas By Selwyn Duke

Ah, Christmastime.  Manger scenes and mistletoe, trees and
tinsel, Santa and celebration, gift-giving and gratitude . . . and the ACLU
roasting traditions on an open fire.  Sadly,
the last thing has become as much a seasonal expectation as the others, and the
American Communist Lawyers Union’s practice of suing our culture into oblivion
has gotten a lot of ink.  Yet there is
another attack on Christmas — actually, another attack on Christianity itself —
one that could ultimately prove more damaging than the usual atheistic
assaults.  And it’s embraced by
religionists themselves.

I’m
sure you’ve heard the charges.  Christmas
is a “pagan holiday,” they say.  It
originated with a celebration dedicated to Saturn
(the Roman god of agriculture), which, upon coming to full flower, took place
between December 17 and 23.  Or perhaps
it was inspired by the commemoration of a sun-god’s birth, and here we have two
candidates: the Indo-Iranian god Mithras and the Roman god Sol.  And people often seem to confuse these two
deities — and their festivals — mixing and matching them in a game of musical
myths.  But it doesn’t really matter
because both Mithras’ and Sol’s mythical births, we’re told, occurred on the
same day: December 25th.

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7 responses to “Pagan Propaganda: The Other Attack on Christmas”

  1. Steve Avatar
    Steve

    I don’t think that these people are really worried about the fact of when Jesus was born. I believe they are worried about the fact he will return! The more they get to forget that fact the less they have to face it. If you don’t remember it coming you don’t worry about it.
    Being left behind can be very frightening. If you don’t remember your future fate there is nothing to be worried about for the sins in this life.

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  2. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Both the birth and re-birth of Christ are worthy of celebration. The date is not at all important but the rituals attached are. If the predominant ritual for the Christmas season is materialism and going into debt to fit in we have a problem. If the pride of having better lights than your neighbor is your ritual, we have a problem. If you spend $200 on a tree and watch your neighbor go hungry, we have a problem. We must celebrate the culmination of thousands of years of prophecy fulfilled and the birth of the one who came to us for a short while and changed Heaven and Earth forever.
    Easter on the other hand simply needs re-naming; perhaps Resurrection Day, Day of Re-Birth, Salvation Sunday, The Day of the Perfect Gift or something else besides Easter.

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  3. Philip France Avatar
    Philip France

    In response to Steve’s post and with respect to Selwyn’s erudite article I wish to share the following anecdote:
    Just the other day, I had just completed my Christmas shopping and I was in gleeful bliss at the gifts that I had purchased for my loved ones. I was humming Christmas hymns (of which I would argue are the most beautiful melodies of all time) to myself while walking through the parking lot toward my car when I came upon a car displaying a bumper sticker that I had never seen before. It said:
    “When the rapture comes, can I have your car?”
    My first response was a mild guffaw, but then my heart filled with sadness for this poor, lost soul. You see, this anonymous person knows just enough about the return of our Lord to mock it. Let me tell you something: he IS coming back! When he does, it will not be as the meek and humble Shepherd King that we may learn of in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. No, my friends, when he returns he will return as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The promise of God is that every knee shall bow to him (Philippians 2:10).
    Understanding this, it would behoove all of us, especially those of us with doubt, to heed Selwyn’s admonition and celebrate the two high holy days of Christianity.
    O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord.

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  4. yoyo Avatar
    yoyo

    Oh Phil, enjoy the joke, it’s not a bad one. If you are right you get to laugh last anyway. My daughter calls the 25th “happy spagehtthi monster gift giving day”, since she has grwon out of the tooth fairy I’m not too stressed. I’m glad you have a religious reason for enjoying this holiday, for the rest of us, look after the poor, like I do, feed your friends and celebrate the best of what makes us happy.

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  5. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Well Yoyo its good to see you are teaching your daughter nonsense…at least you are consistent. Don’t forget to teach her it is not 2009 AD it is 2009 C.E. (current era) and before the C.E. it is B.C.E. (before current era), like the revisionists are doing at university nowadays. Never let her forget that if the truth conflicts with your agenda one of the two must be altered. But of course you probably know all of this stuff…I am sure you are a student of Alenski.

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  6. yoyo Avatar
    yoyo

    Alenski, balenski, none of us outside of the US give him any creedence whatsoever.
    What I have given my duaghter is permission to discover her own boundaries, analyse her own feelings, be strong, be kind and make her world a little better than she found it. I even think your main religious figure would support those goals.

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  7. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Feelings lie.

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