War on White Christmas

 

So many people talk about war on Christmas but fail to grasp just how wide the scope of said War is. I believe most people on the right would agree on the fact that some sort of War is being waged against those of us who hold Christmas celebrations. This year in particular, as the falsehoods of the pandemic has led to new battles that many Christians and Western countrymen seem not willing to face. But not only must we face these challenges, we must win them.

 

One can watch on the History Channel (or on Youtube, like I did) a series that purports to showcase Christmas traditions from decades past. I tuned in to this out of mild interest, as traditions are something I am always eager to learn more about. Sadly, I tuned out after a few minutes as I realized this multi-part series was nothing more than a gross glorification, not of changing traditions, but of changing consumerist tastes. “Guess what toys kids begged their parents for in the 70s? You’ll never believe what Christmas song topped the charts in ‘87!” That sort of thing. But it did get me wondering, where did all the old stories of the Christmas traditions go to? You know the ones. About why we bring trees in the house and light them, or the early myths of St. Nicholas and St. Peter, or the traditions of Yule Logs and Wreaths. Maybe this was never taught in public schools. I only remember when I was a young lad and my parents, indulging my curiosity in histories and traditions, bought me a few books on Christmas traditions, books which I read and re-read voraciously.

 

There was a short time when I was very young that I remember we did not have Christmas trees or lights or any decorations. My family believed at that time that trees and wreaths and all that were evil and demonic due to their pagan, non-Christian roots. For a few years, we would celebrate Christmas with a more quiet and somber tone, reading from the Bible in the morning, exchanging a few gifts and later eating heartily. It did not take long for us to return to more traditional roots and we turned the Christmas decorating into a family affair. Ornaments were hand-crafted each year and some were passed down from previous generations. While still somber, a certain familial joy had crept in with the celebration of tradition.

 

I think a lot of Christians get confused about traditions. Many, while rightly throwing away the brazen commercialism of Christmas the world has placed upon that holy day, have also wrongly thrown out the celebratory nature of Christmas altogether. I know of many sects of Christianity that do not celebrate Christmas in any way, as they perceive in it some form of evil that must be rejected. For some Christians it is not only the commercial aspect that must be rejected, but the traditions as well, as they harken back to ancient pagan rituals. These pagan roots of tradition have spoiled the whole barrel for these Christians, so they reject Christmas and all of its joy.

 

This has unfortunately led to us opening a new front of assault for the enemy, as they can now easily divide and conquer. Not only can our enemies now wage war for us on a Christian front, but they can seek to separate us from our past and attack us on the point of tradition as well. Since so many of us are spending so much time asking what is right and what is evil, what is pagan and what is Christian, we fail to see that everything gets slowly replaced by the monolithic corporate entities of store savings cards and Coca-Cola salesmen. We have allowed the enemies of Christmas to turn us against each other for their own personal gain.

 

We must realize this about our enemies. Many of them do not believe in Christ. They simply choose to live in ignorance, or even outright rejection of our Lord and Savior. That is a sad fact of the world, but it is true. They do not want us to celebrate Christmas because they do not want us to give God the glory, they do not want us to remember Jesus and they most certainly do not want us to celebrate his birth and later, his subsequent victory over Death. Jesus is anathema to these people, these Prometheans of the world. They care only for materialistic gain and wealth. Anything they can do to harm us and by extension, Christ, they will attempt. Even if that means concocting a mild flu-like virus pandemic to force you to stay indoors and not gather with your family to pray and sing praises to our King.

 

Likewise, many of these enemies do not understand our culture. Look at the faces of those who spearhead anti-Christmas movements. They have foreign faces and come from faraway lands, lands without 2,000 years of Christian history and thousands more years of Greek, Roman and Western roots. These lands may not even celebrate a Winter Solstice, as winter could never appear on their sunny, sub-tropical or oriental shores. Yet they come here, to America and the West, and we allow them to sit in positions of power and they in turn look down on us in disdain. After all, we do not understand them or their culture. Neither do they care to understand ours. Our Christmas to them is an oddity. Our brightly-lit trees, our carols and Christmas treats are as foreign to them as camels, jungles, or pagodas would be to us. They do not know or do not care to know of the traditions with roots in ancient Celtic, Teutonic or Roman beliefs. It is all foreign nonsense to them, yet they are not in a foreign land. They are here, in our country. They are in your public offices and on your screens, telling you how to live your life.

 

Of course, these types of enemies do not understand the Christ traditions either. In fact, such religious traditions may be abhorrent to them, these enemies of ours with their own righteous beliefs totally opposite to ours. If our beliefs are sacrilegious to their way of life and they are put in positions of power, why wouldn’t they seek to stamp out our traditions any way they could? We are to be more accepting, we are told by more of the same enemies, even as they tear down our Nativities and cancel our town traditions. After all, it is a multi-cultural society now. Not to mention a sick one that must seek to avoid contact with others of our kind unless we catch the plague. Unfortunately for us and our families, we are beginning to slip to the bottom of the caste system.

 

We do not need to let it be this way. As Christians, we can do much to avoid the worldlier, commercial aspects of Christmas while still practicing our traditions. I myself see nothing wrong with decorating a tree. We have Christianized this ancient pagan tradition and made it our own. No longer do we use it to celebrate Wotan and the eternal forest, but now we celebrate Christ and his eternal gift of Life. Yet this tradition connects us to our ancestors, reminding us of the darkness we have risen from and overcome with the help of Christ Jesus. We can look back with pride at our hardy forefathers who struggled through the long, dark winters that only Northern Europe could make and realize that some of that same hardy spirit lives on in us today. Christmas can and should be a celebration of family. It is a celebration of our immediate family and the joy we can bring one another. It is a celebration of our ancestral family and the folk spirit that we carry on by torchlight. And most importantly, it is a celebration of Christian family, as we realize that we are brought into the realm of the Eternal One because His Divine Son decided to make Himself a little lower than the angels in a little town in Judea over 2,000 years ago.

We're Winning Too Much Sir

 I had fun following the debate this evening and posting along on Gab. Reminded me of those halcyon days of 2016 where I would post along on Twitter and the boards with the bros. This second debate was far better than the first 2020 debate, where Trump didn't quite know how to approach Biden so he hit the old politician with everything he had, billowing and blustering. Great fun, but far less memorable. No catchphrase meme moments if you will. This time around? Hoo boy. Needless to say, Joe lost. He lost bigly.

Number 1 -- he went on public record saying he wanted to end the oil industry. Trump looked elated. Even the debate moderator paused for a moment. "Why would you do that?" She asked in disbelief. Joe says oil is poisonous or some such nonsense. 

Number 2 -- he said he would re-enter the Paris Accord without changing it. But he would hold China accountable he says! Yes, but Trump had just said China wouldn't have to do anything until 2030. I don't think Americans want to pay for filthy China for ten years while they pocket even more of our money.

Number 3 -- zero prison time for "pure" drug offenses. Very odd one to hold to for me, why would he do this? He literally said he wouldn't arrest someone for cocaine possession. Sure, rehab sounds all well and good until people realize the sheer amount of drugs flowing in from very powerful people and very big foreign gangs. Heads up foreign gangs, none of you will be arrested any longer. It's called boosting the economy in Joe's world, I guess.

Number 4 -- 11 million illegal immigrants would be made citizens within the first year. 11 million. That's a decent size city's worth. I assume this works in tangent with point #3, as the foreign drug dealers would have to be American citizens in order to not be arrested for selling dope to your boy Johnny. But don't worry, Johnny will be taken and put into rehab. On the taxpayer's dime of course.

Any one of these points alone would kill an average politician before they hit the primaries. But this is clown world. These points are real platforms. We don't even need to discuss Biden's constant confusion. There was no mere stuttering. I have friends who stutter. They don't say "B-52... B-1 Bombers..." or "Poor Boys" on a stutter. That's just confusion. The old man noticeably shut down -- more than once! -- during the debate as he attempted to answer questions. A system reboot I suppose.

I'll be curious to see how the MSM spins it. And of course, we still have the Laptop from Hell lurking in the background...

The Devil In Our Midst

 I never quite got Catholicism. I was raised far away from that sort of Christianity and while I did a little research on them as I got older, they were never quite my wheelhouse. I'm sure there's quite a few decent Catholics out there and I don't disparage Catholicism as a whole, but what the hell is up with the Pope? He certainly doesn't seem to be speaking on God's behalf, as evidenced in his latest remarks on same-sex marriages.

This is where they catch you, by the way. Look at the wording the Pope uses.

“Homosexual people have the right to be in a family,” Francis said in the film. “They are children of God. What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered.”

 Civil union law. See, it's not about right or wrong on a moral level on their part. They just need civil law, basic law of the land. No, the moral imperative is shifted onto you, the Christian Catholic. YOU are the one that needs to recognize that they have rights and are children of god. I'm not sure whose god, as I recall the Bible being quite clear that we are all created for God's glory but if we reject Christ and continue living in sin, then he removes us from His tree, but perhaps Catholicism is different. Everybody gets to be on the tree, even those who produce rotten fruit. Why not? The more the merrier.

Civil union law. Now the church is removing itself from its own moral doctrine. The church itself now no longer holds marriage as a holy union between man and woman. These children of whatever god they worship do this frequently, employing subtle language changes to shift focus away from God and the Gospel. It is the oldest Luciferian trick in the book. Present something that seems good as a replacement for the true good and pretend it is the same as the true good. 

I also note as an aside, that homosexuality even fails the civil union test. There is nothing civilly productive about a same sex marriage. There is no contribution to society or community. There is no family and any family production the two have is a product of a labyrinthine system of disassociation without any real bond. We need no laws to protect this sort of nonsense. We need laws to protect from this nonsense, but without a foundation on true Christian moral structure, society will never allow it. 

The Masks Come Off

 Trump, like most Americans, is more than tired of a lot of BS things. We tire of the lies, the constant threats, the totalitarian WuFlu lockdowns, the never-ending spin by MSM and of course, the masks.

Another "gotcha" moment from Conservative Inc? Likely not, this is Trump we're talking about. Supposedly he's planning on releasing the full, unedited 60 Minutes interview before it airs on television. It will be interesting to see what was discussed and whether or not any info was exchanged on why Americans no longer need to wear masks. 60 Minutes is supposed to air on Sunday (does anyone even watch that any longer?) so we'll have to see.

No Power to Halloween

 

I can’t speak much to my own fond childhood memories of Halloween as I have none. Halloween was vehemently banned in my household as a night given over to devil worship and evil voodoo. As good stout Christians, we read the Bible together as a family and prayed for deliverance from the evils of this world. Which in of itself is actually quite a nice memory, so I feel no real loss. Due to this lack of “real” Halloween experiences though, the holiday was largely a mystery to me. Now that I’m older and married, living on my own, I realize that holiday from my childhood years has vanished.

The Halloween of today is no longer the Halloween of yesterday and the Halloween of yesterday is no longer the Halloween of my parents’ yesterday. Think about it. Think back to the original Halloween film from 1978, where oodles of kids run around town unsupervised throughout the night. Half the town in that film didn’t even have their doors locked. Haddonfield was supposed to representative of any small, quiet suburb in the US. Even now I think that’s crazy. But go ask any boomer old enough to remember those days. They will almost certainly agree that’s actually how it was back then and chalk it up to the world just being better or people being better. Never mind the mass importation of un-Americans, the addition of low-income housing to the suburbs, the forced integration of multiple cultures that ever so slowly built up a growing distrust among neighbors. But I digress.

Even by my childhood, Halloween seemed different. There were certainly no roving bands of children and everyone had their doors locked by then. Parents then worried whether needles or razor blades would be stashed in their kids’ candy by some crazed lunatic. I frankly wonder whether that ever happened or if it was just something else cooked up by the MSM to keep people afraid of each other. For myself personally, growing up in a rural Christian environment, the whole thing was just distant weirdness. It’s only when I look back now that I see even that Halloween is dead.

Do people even trick or treat any longer? I’ve lived closer to town these past few years and I know of several families on our street, yet I’ve never seen a single trick or treater. Apparently families here go trunk or treating. They all get together in a parking lot and the kids go around in a circle taking candy from people’s cars. It’s big with church crowds. I’m convinced Halloween around here is basically rumspringa for Baptists. The kids can dress up as Darth Vader and get their sugar high, the teens can dress up as slutty Darth Vader and go smoke some weed somewhere while the adults give a wink and a nod as if they know what’s up but they’ll let the kids have their fun just this once. No devil worship or goat sacrifices here, just good ol’ fun with a bit of spookiness, just like the old days used to be.

I don’t have anything against fun, but I find this particular fun to be more dangerous than fun. This sort of fun is more similar to an ostrich sticking its head in the sand and hiding from the world. Never mind the teenagers in severe need of discipline, think about Halloween outside of the context presented here. Read the news where the MSM gloats with glee about how witches are gathering this Halloween to hex the president. Go to Facebook or Tiktok or wherever and see where people are not just talking about what we would call the evil side of Halloween, but are fully embracing it.

While we continue to pretend the evil isn’t really there, one of the heads of BLM talks about how she chants the name of her spirit friend to give her energy. Antifa is in the streets eating the raw, bloodied heart of only God knows what. Every Barnes and Noble across the US has a section on Personal Development, and there you will find books on basic spells, crystal healing and spiritual self-empowerment. Let’s not even talk about what we now know the elite are doing to children or what spirit cooking is.

An absolutely horrific darkness has grown unabated in America. Our churches and their trunk or treating have done nothing to stop it. In fact, many churches have only helped this darkness grow. How many churches support BLM? How many churches have a female pastor with a side OnlyFans account? How many churches have only the false light of Lucifer as they continue to poison and dull the minds of its flock?

We would do well to pray this Halloween. The idolatry of the world has grown to such a mass proportion that it can no longer be ignored by even those without the light of Christ. This Halloween also has special significance to those given over to the darkness. There will be a full moon this October 31^st, the second in this month – a rare portent. Those versed in occult knowledge will know that all witches and warlocks and Satan worshippers will take special advantage of this night. They know that for the first time in a long time, they are being exposed to the Light for all to see. Their grotesqueries are being laid bare to the world, something they cannot have else their powers fail.

I’m not going to tell anyone to not celebrate Halloween this year, however they may choose to celebrate it. That’s hardly my place. I’m only going to ask others to pray this Halloween as they go about that day and that night. Pray for strength, wisdom and spiritual discernment. Pray to avoid evil. Pray for our president, who will receive an extremely large amount of negative spiritual energy this 31^st. He will be under attack along with the rest of Christ’s followers. Remember, they want us broken and defeated, our heads in the sand. Worse, they want us dead. They hate us, the bearers of Christ’s Light. Show them no fear and walk this world with confidence, knowing you are protected by the power of the Lord. And pray, always pray.

We Live A Good Life

 

Sometimes I think it’s worth thinking about how blessed us peons are in this world. We all have those fleeting moments where we turn green with envy when we hear someone else got that promotion. Someone less talented. Someone less handsome got that girl. Someone less worthy received that windfall. Stop that envy. Stop and be thankful that you are not part of that world. Because it is a wholly separate world that you will never be able to join. Those celebrities, debutantes, billionaires and other assorted filth have all lost something you still have. They have all sacrifice something that you would regret sacrificing to become part of that world. We little peons may be talented or intelligent or even charismatic, good-looking individuals – but we will never be morally compromised.

Think about it. You will never be like HB or his ilk. True, you will never receive millions of dollars for literally just showing up to some think tank committee. But you will also not be compromised. You will never lose sleep over the guilt of what you did on some bender in some foreign country and the bodies that had to quietly be removed in your wake. You will never be wracked with the thought that someday your sins may catch up to you and destroy your life, your family’s life, and the lives of those in your social circle. You will never look in the mirror and see a ghost of a man, a demon-possessed consciousness that only wishes to forget and buries itself deeper in a maelstrom of selfish desires and lusts.

Those people you and I occasionally envy, they are not people, and we would do well to remember this. They have sold their souls long ago and now have nothing to live for while they shamble about this earth, mere specters of greatness, reflecting nothing through their moth-ridden souls. Be blessed with what you have. Know that your talents are for the Lord, your family and your church. For what is greatness in this life, if it costs you your soul? Stay morally strong and keep the faith in Christ.

Why You Need to Stop Being Nice

I find there are few things more loathsome than a Nice Person. I’m not talking about the friendly folk you see on the street and give a polite smile and a “how do you do” as you pass. I wouldn’t call that nice so much as good simple etiquette. Nice used to mean a good and agreeable sort of person who you could depend on to come through for you in a jam. Nice used to be a simple statement with which to express a modicum of pleasure in something. I would argue it means something entirely different in today’s world, the sort of something that would best be avoided.

Just think of the most well-known bad sort of nice, the perennially dreaded yet always lauded Nice Guy. He exists everywhere in our media, the sort of hands-in-pockets stooped-shouldered fellow who hovers in the back, never quite aggressive enough to say what he believes or thinks. He is indeed a good and agreeable fellow, but hardly the sort anyone should ever want to aspire to be. He is horribly mistreated, rejected at every turn by women, laughed at by his peers but never sees any reason to defend himself or take a stand for anything important. Ah, but it is not all bad for Nice Guy. After all, we see that if he hovers around a particular female he is attracted to for a long enough period of time that she will come to see that he is a good fellow who deserves her love and sex. What a happy ending for Nice Guy.

A crock of lies of course. These sorts of fairy tales where one just has to wait around for a happy ending are nothing more than feel-good nonsense peddled around by our modern bards. I think deep down we all know this from our own experiences but refuse to accept it because of the enticing fairy tale ending. Why bother doing anything hard or God forbid, a bit mean, when we can just wait around for our dream girl to get tired of the endless array of men that warm her at night?

But of course this nonsensical bad nice extends beyond the well-known Nice Guy archetype and can be seen everywhere one looks. This sort of nice that isn’t simply being an agreeable chap who gets along with others, but a harmful and self-denigrating type of nice, is all too common. This is the type of Nice Person that I find loathsome, as this Nice Person usually hates themselves and makes sure everyone else knows it, going back to that self-defeatism I talked about last week. Beyond that they are often perfectly willing to drag everyone else down to their level. This often isn’t even a conscious choice so much as them instinctively leveling the playing field in a twisted way of making their own lowly social status look all the more appealing.

Now I’m not going to spend all my time just whaling on these Nice People. But what I would like to do is point out how harmful being Nice is and how destructive the behavior is that stems from this Niceness. Think about the usual sort of nice, that agreeable and polite person that says hello. That sort of nice is twisted and taken to its furthest extreme to become Nice. When you become Nice you are no longer allowed to speak out against something you disagree with or don’t like. That wouldn’t be very nice after all. A Nice person can’t just help others; they must help others at their own cost, going out of their way to be helpful even it harms them.  A Nice Person is a groveling sort of fellow with a back bowed from carrying others’ burdens alongside their own. A Nice Person frequently ends up in a state of paralysis, unable to make the simplest of decisions for fear of offending someone somehow and being discovered as not being nice. Because everything must be sacrificed on their self-made altar of Niceness, especially their own well-being.

The worst part about being a Nice Person is that it destroys the part of your brain that would enable you to break free from your bonds and learn to just be a nice person. Because I’m going to take a safe bet that some of you might have read the above paragraph and saw absolutely nothing wrong with the person just described. “A heroic individual! Sacrifice is to be admired, not curbed!” Utterly rubbish I say. That’s hardly sacrifice for starters; sacrifice implies purpose or good coming out of a conscious choice of loss. This being Nice is nothing more than self-destructive behavior, for what good comes out of it? You get to be called nice. Fantastic. The Nice Person gets to watch as life passes them by as they remain frozen by indecision. They get to eternally wait for their dream lover to finally notice them begging at their feet or their boss to see how much hard work and overtime they put in for the company at the expense of their own family or heath. Is this noble? Is this what we are to aspire to live for each day? Sounds like misery to me, a misery that hardly seems worth it.

I’ll also make a special note here for Christians. Modern Christianity seems to preach nothing but a twisted Gospel of Nice, where Christ has become some sort of feelgood communist figurehead who just wanted everyone to get along. This sort of kindergarten Christianity is not only meaningless nonsense, it’s downright heretical. While Jesus did teach to be nice and “turn the other cheek”, he also publicly shamed the religious leaders of the day, frequently used violent imagery in his parables, told his disciples to sell their cloaks and go buy swords (Luke 22), not to mention that one time he very violently attacked everyone misusing the Temple as a marketplace with a homemade whip (John 2:15). Christians should have no more of this Gospel of Nice; Jesus was a man of balance who knew the time and place to be nice, knew when to take command and most importantly, knew when to take a stand.

To those who are not Christians, the above can still be helpful. Being nice is all well and good, something we should incorporate into our daily lives, but being Nice means we are throwing our lives out of balance. We are intentionally bringing harm and injury to ourselves solely for the sake of being seen as Nice. It is a useless thing to try to gain simply because nothing good can be gained from such destructive behavior. All of these Nice People need to realize that sometimes we simply can’t be nice and there’s nothing wrong with that. This article isn’t very nice for instance, but I’m hoping it can be helpful. Criticism isn’t always nice but it’s definitely helpful. Calling out someone’s bad behavior isn’t nice but it may help them. But most importantly, putting our own needs above other people’s needs isn’t always nice but it is something that must be done.

Again, people will likely balk at a statement that seems absurd. It is far from being absurd however; the fact that we must help ourselves before we can help others is basic common sense. How can we even think that we are in a position to help others if we ignore our own troubles? The Nice Person sees no issue with this. They may be financially or emotionally burdened but will go out of their way to take on the problems of others around them. Yet if they are unable to deal with their own problems, how can a Nice Person deal with other problems? They can’t of course. Such harmful behavior permanently swamps them, feeding their own fragility and leaving them unable to grow as a person. Yet we continue to promote such awful behavior! We continue to promote and accept that these harmful emotional and psychological behaviors are for the ever vague “greater good” and will ultimately be best for everyone involved.

Well I say it’s time to stop it all. There’s more to life than constantly seeking approval from others. There’s more things Nice People can do besides keep their faces to the dirt posturing about how wonderfully Nice they are. It’s time to stop intentionally lowering yourself on the social totem pole just to get noticed for being Nice. It’s time Nice People all just stop being Nice. Be selfish. Put yourself before others. This will feel wrong at first, foreign and strange, but double down on it. Learn to build yourselves up, not because you’re Nice, but because you’re You. You’re not just a trait or an emotion, you’re a person. Strive to be a balanced person, a person who’s more than just nice. Be cool, confident, calm, whatever. Hell, be angry if you want. Establish your boundaries. Establish yourself. You don’t need to be hateful and nasty, but also understand that you just will be sometimes. Learn to deal with and even harness such emotions. Balance humility and pride and you’ll find that you will go farther than you ever realized you could by just being Nice. So go on, go be a bit selfish. Be selfish in the sense that you’re going to start making decisions based on what’s best for you instead of what you think would be best for others.