Just recently
I was shaken in my Christmas spirit
By a video presentation
From a religious critic.
He called me a heathen
Because I celebrate Christmas,
And a hypocrite
Because I engage in the fuss.
He took a swipe at Santa Clause
And at the Christmas tree,
And that all year we neglect the poor
But at Christmas give a treat.
He quoted from Jeremiah
In chapter 10 verses 1 to 4
There he cited the decorated tree
That the heathen bowed before.
He shook me in my spirit
With his harsh criticisms
As he ransacked our
Christmas traditions
And its pagan like customs.
He spoke to the nativity scene
We have of the baby Jesus
And said we should throw it in the garbage
Along with the other stuff.
He knocked the date of birth
That Christmas commemorates,
And castigated Christians who celebrate it
As a bunch of hell-bound fakes.
He quoted from the Gospel of Luke
In chapter 1 verse 26
Showing the timing of Jesus’ birth
To be an erroneous mix.
He showed December is wrong
And certainly the twenty-fifth
And that by celebrating on this date
We condone a biblical shift.
Your pastor is a liar
And so too your mamma
For all of these damned lies
That they have been “telling to yuh.”
Strong language indeed
And harsh are these criticisms
But perhaps it is an opportune time
To re-examine our Christmas traditions.
Christmas has become a sacred cow
For most professing Christians
And the tendency to go overboard
Is their prevailing custom.
The X in Christmas is working
To take Jesus Christ out
And, that Christmas is about everything else
To my mind, there is no doubt.
My plea, therefore, this Christmas
Is that we take a conscious look
At all we are doing to celebrate Christmas
And get back to the Holy Book.
Stewart Russell © December 2019
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