CHRISTMAS OR NOT?

   Probably not since 2020, have we seen a time when such a deep gloom hung over the Christmas holidays. The Junta had just seized power, announced the implementation of the Great Reset, Big Tech and Cancel Culture were suppressing dissent, and the nation was still mostly under the de facto Martial Law of the Scamdemic. Many were trying to seek solace in Faith at that time.

   Three years later, we've seen the progress of the Great Reset. Their brand of Materialist Dictatorship---which had then seized control of our Government, today seems to have seized control of our Churches as well. The Vatican, which has been teetering delicately on the balance between its eternal values and succumbing to the general decay of the West for some time, finally plunged into complete apostasy last week and, for all intents and purposes, nullified the Sacrament of Marriage. The Vatican, like the Government of the United States, is headed by an octogenarian in poor health who is really little more than putty in the hands of unscrupulous cabals who are entrenching themselves in permanent power. 

  The main difference between the Christmas malaise of 2020 and that of 2023 reflects the degree to which the sociopolitical rot which has spread throughout the Anglosphere has accelerated. In 2020, this degeneracy hadn't yet reached the point where it became a New Normal in the public conscientiousness although the seeds of it were clearly present. Then, people were turning to Faith, as they frequently do during times of stress: today, the representatives of Faith have become so corrupted that to speak of the Message of Hope has lost any meaning. The sheer hypocrisy of seeing the Holy Family depicted in a Nativity Scene within a Church that makes a mockery of the family is revolting to both Faith and Reason. 

  In Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Christ, the Christians have agreed not to hold Christmas ceremonies in solidarity with others in their nation who are being massacred by their own Government. Here, however, in Western nations, churches have made themselves conspicuous by standing with the Zionist Regime and even cheering on their atrocities. The Israeli Government---which openly imposes a Left-Wing ethno-State headed by the descendants of the very people who crucified Christ, and has made no secret of its goal of ethnically cleansing the Holy Land---are praised as the leaders of some kind of moral crusade defending Civilization. 

    This year, I don't plan to observe Christmas, not only in solidarity with our Palestinian brothers, but because the meaning of the holiday has ceased to exist. This isn't to say that Christ's Advent wasn't real: but it's become like the 4th of July with an unfree people celebrating their Independence won by men whose ideals Americans largely no longer believe in. I don't believe at this point that Jesus Himself would endorse the Christmas Holiday. The New Testament certainly doesn't advocate the go-along-to-get-along approach of the Vatican, nor would it sanction support of a Technofascist Police State in the Holy Land which draws its spiritual inspiration from the Pharisees, as the Churchian Right is doing. 

   Consider that the first miracle that Jesus performed was at a wedding, and His first act entering Jerusalem was driving crooked money-changers from the Temple, and compare those examples to what Christianity looks like in December 2023. I realize that thinking has become a lost art in Postmodern America, and that AI and fact-checkers might dispute the conclusions that one could draw using actual logic; but at least we should stop pretending that this holiday really means anything anymore.

      

    Americans are going to approach Christmas this year with the same spirit they approach ecclesiastical and political corruption: by downing enough dope and sitting stupefied in front of the Big Screen absorbing a few 30-second soundbites of the Official Narrative along the way. Here in my very Red county, there were---as usual around every holiday---lines down the sidewalk at all Marijuana Dispensaries. Between that and post-Thanksgiving Black Friday scenes at the malls, it tells us all that we really need to know about the cultural and spiritual levels of the average American. 

    But if we followed the example of our friends in Bethlehem and flatly boycotted Christmas, it might have the same effect that we refuseniks had by standing up to the Mask Mandates. It might cause a few to start thinking about what they're doing and questioning what they're being told as opposed to the reality of the situation. Lines simply have to be drawn somewhere, and maybe it's time that we started saying no a little more often.