Meditation for December 19th
America’s Christmas
This is a continuation of Cracked Pot Meditations’ war on Christmas.
If the conservative Christians understood history at all, they would realize that their historical counterpart were actually anti-Christmas. This country’s founders were Puritans who fled England, where Christmas was beginning to be celebrated again. And before you say they were escaping persecution, they were actually wanting to be somewhere they could get away from persecuting others.
Puritans even outlawed Christmas in Boston in the 18th century. They felt that this was a front to the first and second commandments: “Thou shalt have no gods before me”, and “Thou shalt make unto thee any graven image.” The Puritans were very orthodox in their beliefs. Remember, these were the idiots who burnt witches.
It was the Dutch who brought the Santa Claus Christmas to America with their Sinterklaas in New Amsterdam, now called New York City. If the Catholic Dutch didn’t come to America, the Americans would never have had Christmas.
The South, the people who were pro-slavery? They were into Christmas. In fact, while Boston and other northern cities wouldn’t celebrate Christmas, the South would lavish Christmas celebrations. Alabama became the first state to make Christmas a legitimate holiday in 1836. It also still had legal slavery.
The very invention of psychological warfare in America came from the Civil War and Christmas. Abraham Lincoln had Thomas Nast draw Santa Claus visiting Union soldiers, weakening the South. The psychological warfare continues with the music.
So Christmas didn’t even become universally accepted until the twentieth century, thanks to advertising. Even in the 1920s, there was an adverse reaction to the popularity of the modern Christmas with Santa, the tree, and the presents.
So now the traditional American Christian wants to claim that Christmas is a traditional American institution, but it was actually the opposite. Immigrants and pro-slavery anti-patriots celebrated it. The very reason for the religious freedom in the Constitution was to protect the Puritans, who felt that Christmas was a pagan, materialistic sin and a competing celebration. This is what the founding fathers were protecting.
In fact, the revolutionaries who fought for independence didn’t celebrate Christmas. The British that we fought for our independence did. Santa wears a red suit just like the British soldiers we fought.
This holiday is celebrated by remembering the Savior of all of our sins being born in a manger because they were poor by buying a lot of expensive presents for the kids. Makes sense. It is even weirder because the presents are delivered by someone completely separate from Jesus down the chimney and placed under a decorated tree.
And now every year we have to hear about his so-called War on Christmas from mudracking “journalists” and politicians who want to stir the anger, except 200 years ago these same religious nut jobs would be claiming Christmas was a war on Christianity.
Prayer
Please, for the love of god,
Be more consistent.
I feel like you keep giving mixed messages.
Slavery was good then; slavery is bad.
Child brides were good, then they are bad.
Gay was bad, now every church has a rainbow flag.
Mixed-race dating was bad; now it’s fine.
No one can really tell what your position is on killing.
Can we accept the Son of god as our lord and Savior and go to heaven?
Or is it really a lot more complicated than that?
Like, what are the sins that override the acceptance?
The book you wrote,
Doesn’t help at all, either.
We need more clarification.
Amen
Craft
Pinecone Christmas Decorations.
Pinecones are great for a variety of crafts. In this one, you will need a couple of dozen small pinecones, usually the kind from firs.
Before anything, frost them with white so they look like they’ve been out in the snow.
Glue them in a pyramid shape so they look like a tree.
Yay! Christmas is easy!
Goal
There was a time in the War on Christmas when the assholes were against it.