Let’s Be Honest: Christmas’ ‘Problem’ Is Not The Offense Of The Manger

To my unbelieving friends at Christmas:

My wish is that you would consider the source of your antagonism toward observant Christians. Unless you’re a major shareholder in Radio Shack or Barnes & Noble, why should you care if we prefer to shop with other companies that aren’t so Christo-phobic? OK, so we’re hung up about “Merry Christmas” over “Happy Holidays”. Then just write us off as people who can’t take a joke.

If you really think Christianity is just a bunch of stuff and nonsense, then why should any of this matter to you at all? Because that’s not really what it’s all about.

As Jeff “You Know You’re a Redneck When” Foxworthy declared a few years ago when hosting the County Music awards, “We sing about God because we believe in Him. We are not trying to offend anybody, but the evidence that we have seen of Him in our small little lives trumps your opinion about whether or not He exists.”

Right. The operative word is “trying.” We’re not trying to offend you. But we do. We really can’t help it. And let me suggest a reason why: It’s not the babe in the manger or the shepherds or the wise men or even the nativity scenes on public property that cause you to be so offended. It’s what they all lead up to and portend.

It’s the offense of the Cross. Jesus, son of God, was born to die for sinners. Talk about politically incorrect. You know instinctively that honoring Jesus is to dishonor sinners. Think about it: Nobody naturally wants to believe that their sin is so bad as to require an atoning sacrifice so extreme as that paid by Jesus in such excruciating fashion. It’s like the horror of hell. And that’s the red flag that the babe in the Christmas manger waves in your face, is it not?


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Marching To The Beat Of Condemnation

Humanity seeks to replace Christ for the pursuit of an unconventional uncharted path in order to fulfill life’s void and establish secret bliss that is apparently, yet to be discovered. Off-the-wall culture attributes spirituality to forces in the universe by sending out positive energy which will not return void.

The one true God is no longer good enough because within his framework we discover limits, boundaries and expectations. The modern day approach is that if it feels good we should have the right to divulge as we see fit. “This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil,” John 3:19.

Society’s favorite comeback is ‘don’t judge me’ in order to dodge accountability while others respond by testifying ‘only God can judge me’ without having a clue about God’s judgment as outlined in scripture. We are to call one another to accountability, and sharpen one another through fellowship, “so watch yourselves! If another believer sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance – forgive,” Luke 17:3.

Granted, God’s mercy and forgiveness expands far beyond our comprehension. He is a God of clemency, but people purposefully forget and even deny that He is also a God of wrath and judgment. His anger is righteous anger – scripture embodies condemnation for those who do not repent and turn away from their sinful habits. Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God (Romans 12:2; Matthew 3:8). Those who believe and repent become heirs in the kingdom of God (Romans 8:17).


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Our Friends Are Killing Us

There is a prophetic verse of Scripture that records the conquering Messiah as being asked about the wounds that are in his hands. He responds, “Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.” (Zechariah 13:6 KJV) Indeed. It wasn’t the Romans that were fixated with killing Christ; it was the Lord’s own brethren. “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” (John 1:11 KJV) In like manner, our nation is quickly losing its liberties and Natural rights, not because of our enemies, but because of our so-called friends and brothers.

Edmund Burke summarized it beautifully: “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” And, for the most part, that is what good men are doing today: nothing!

As regular readers of this column know, I am passionate in my defense of the Natural right of self-defense. I firmly believe that the only thing standing between us and tyranny is the right of the people to keep and bear arms. The freedom of speech, the right to assemble and redress government, the right to be secure in our own homes, the right to a trial by jury, the freedom of worship, etc., all depend on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. When the people of America surrender this right, all of the other rights will quickly disappear.

Furthermore, Daniel Webster was absolutely right when he said, "Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world." Amen!

Not only does the Second Amendment protect the liberties of the people of the United States, the Second Amendment protects the free peoples of the world. Without the armed citizenry of the people of America, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, France, and the rest of the free world would plummet into abject tyranny and oppression. Look at how socialistic and enslaved people in these countries already are. Can one imagine how quickly they would plunge into the Dark Ages without the power and influence of the last bulwark of liberty: a free and armed United States of America?

Daniel Webster uttered another profound truth: "There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter: from the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing."

Ladies and gentlemen, that is exactly what many of our so-called friends and brothers have become: “instruments of their own undoing.” It is not the liberals, socialists, amoralists, elitists, globalists, etc., who are killing us; it is the pastors, Christians, conservatives, Republicans, etc., who sit back and do nothing that are killing us.


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