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A Dark and Sad Christmas? I Beg to Differ.

11/28/2021

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I have no desire to  write a post about the "true meaning of Christmas." 

To begin with, the mere concept of "true meaning of Christmas" falsely frames the meaning of Christmas as something that can be easily obscured, buried, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood, or forgotten. This premise reveals nothing about the quality of Christmas, but it does reveal a great deal about the quality of our world. 

Contrary to the countless trite and vapid stories, movies, television specials, sermons, homilies, and articles that have been dedicated to that moment of epiphany when the "true meaning of Christmas" suddenly breaks through the darkness, the mere fact that the "true meaning of Christmas" can be so easily lost, so conveniently misplaced is a testament to how much distance people have actually put between themselves and the Light of the World.

And what "true meaning of Christmas" did those countless trite and vapid stories, movies, television specials, sermons, homilies, and articles end up discovering? 

Be nicer to people? It's not the gift, but the thought that counts? Christmas is a time to be selfless and altruistic? Christmas is a celebration of the universal love of man?

It's the first Sunday of Advent; Christians have begun preparations to celebrate Christmas and the birth of Jesus. At the same time, the side that opposes God and Creation have filled their media with stark warnings of a "dark and sad" Christmas. 

Dark and sad Christmas? Is that even possible? 

I beg to differ. 

Despite what our Satanic overlords promulgate through their media, Christmas can never be dark and sad. On the contrary, the darker and sadder the external world becomes, the more joyous and brighter the awaited arrival of the Light of the World becomes.

How could it be otherwise?

John 8:12 - Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. 
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Whitney
11/28/2021 15:40:23

Agreed. Happy first day of the celebration of the birth of the holy infant Jesus!

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Zork
11/28/2021 18:58:39

Agreed. For those born again believers, there is no dark Christmas, just Christ, whose promises are more than enough to see us through anything this world can throw against Him, and by extension, His people who have accepted the free gift offered.

The war is already over.

We are seeing today the increasingly desperate attempts of a lost and dying world, and the evil powers behind its machinations, kicking against the pricks, knowing their time is short and accelerating their push to organize the world against the Lord when he returns.

A final hail Mary play:) (Pardon the pun:)

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Mike Bryant
11/29/2021 11:18:09

Went to Sainsbury's this morning for my usual shop obviously not wearing a mask and as I was wandering round the bakery a bird flew past me and perched on a shelf and bugger me it was a cheeky Robin, if that's not a good omen I don't know what is.

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Francis Berger
11/29/2021 11:52:19

@ Mike - Ah, brilliant! That is a good omen!

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Serhei
11/29/2021 16:30:26

Stories about ‘the true meaning of Christmas’ are usually uplifting because they’re stories about people who have lost that meaning finding their way back.

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Francis Berger
11/29/2021 20:02:18

@ Serhei - Granted those stories exist, and they are good, but far too many true meaning of Christmas stories are about people who have lost the meaning and find their way back to sentimental, altruistic leftism.

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