The Power of Words

This is my response to the topic on Helium.com “A Call to Put Christ Back in Christmas.”  It currently ranks #1 of the 58 responses to the topic thus far.  I wrote this 2 Christmas’ ago.

We may think that christmas is about the birth of Yahshua (or as referred to Jesus Christ), but folks I am here to tell you that it is yet another tradition of man that we’ve chosen to adopt and perpetuate, no questions asked! Why, pray tell me, why do we do such things? We do we so blatantly, and yes stupidly, swallow everything we are fed – and I’m talking generally, as a whole, most of those of us who call ourselves “christians” do just that; we accept and accept and we never question. Is it because we are lazy, or is it because we just don’t care?

The “idea” behind “Christ-mas” is a good thing, but to say that “Christ-mas” is a thing of Christ, or Yahshua as I refer to him, is a falsehood. Yahshua was not born on December 25th; historically, even just using the handbook that “christians” purportedly base their faith upon, the Bible (consisting of the Old and New Testaments), if you seriously sit down and do some calculations, in all likelihood you’ll come up with a date closer to our September/October months. This is a fact that can be proven! Think about it! Would the sheppards have been sitting on the hills in the middle of the winter, chatting and socializing, when the “angel” appeared to announced the birth of Yahshua? There are many other things that just don’t add up to a December 25th “birth-day” for Yahshua. So, like I said, the “idea” behind “Christ-mas”, that of sharing, giving and love toward all men, is wonderful and the music (except all the commercial crap)is inspirational, uplifting and encouraging. Even my “jewish” friends and associates, in the office environment, participate in some of the festivities.

“Christmas” as we know it, is yet another “pagan” based festivity that got wrapped up in the “supposed” christian movement, making it more palatable, getting more people involved, getting them to contribute to “church coffers.” And now, of course, it’s become a bloody commercial racket for just about every organization there is, starting with the advertising, commercials and brainwashing on television, radios and billboards as early as September each year! Pay attention and you’ll agree with me there; watch when the “christmas toy” commercials start bombarding your children on the television etc.!

Christmas and “Santy” Clause can be traced back to the 3rd century (thus, again, right there you’ll see that the early church and followers of Yahshua, for over 300 years had nothing to do with what we now participate in, “christ-mas” nor the “santa clause” thing; what’s santa got to do with Yahshua’s birth anyway?) and the story about a guy called Saint Nicholas. There was never any mention of elves, chimneys nor flying reindeer. Even the Christmas tree is not mentioned in the story. Christianty had made some headway in Angle Land (England) Hol Land (Holland), Scot Land (Scotland), Fin Land (Finland) and Eire Land (Ireland) until well into the 5th century. If there was a Nicholas in the 3rd century, he was a pagan who obeyed his Druid priests. The only account of someone even remotely like this “saint Nicholas” person would have been in the 3rd century and at that time the peoples were barbarians, pagans and most definitely not christians! They were Druids and let me tell you their practises were so not what Christmas purports to be about; they were involved in things like burning their enemies and criminals in wicker cages over fires, casting money and wealth into lakes to appease their water idols, burning children as offerings to the sun, placing jack-o-laterns outside their homes lit by candles made from the fat of their own children!

There is another claim by the RC church that Nicholas was a bishop, yet at his death on December 6th, he had only reached the ripe age of 17! Bishop means an elder taken from the Greek word presbus (old man). The RC church honrs this man as a saint and the question is how do we get from “Saint Nicholas” to “Santa Claus”? The Santa Claus thing was, originally from the English “Santy” and it wasn’t until later in the 20th century that the Spanish derivative or version “Santa” was used.

For years I wondered why, if christmas is supposed to be the time of ‘joy’ and ‘good will’, people were so angry, so sad and so depressed? And, I am sure I am not alone in that. I worked on the suicide/distress lines as a volunteer for a lot of years. Did you know that the highest suicide rates are from Christmas until about February, year after year after year. Why is that? I am here to suggest that one reason is the commercial exploitation (of a good idea, though misplaced) is such that we have families, single moms spending way beyond their means, so as not to disappoint their children, and then the bills start coming in and the money isn’t there. An deaths from alcohol; they are greatly increased during that same time period. Some are suicides, some are ‘accidents’ that is people drinking and driving or drinking and falling and injuring themselves or drinking and getting violent with another person and physically beating the pulp out of them. Where’s the “merry” and “joy” in our “christ-mas” holidays?

If you want to celebrate the birth of Yahshua, do it every day; he celebrated his Father every day and that is one of the things he was about, he came to show us! If you insist on celebrating his actual birthday, then for heaven’s sakes do some research and at least try to get a date in the right month!

Do I sound harsh? Perhaps, for you see, I was a 40 year product of roman catholicism – I sat, was fed, swallowed, accepted, never thought and just did; like a robot! And then, something clicked and I started asking questions and I haven’t stopped and I shall never stop. I stop on a subject when I have that “I know that I know” kind of feeling; you know, like you “know that you know” that there is YHWH!