The holiday of Christmas is so precious to many for its significance, yet it has been brutalized and taken hostage to countless interests that serve to defile its meaning.
All of retail – the giants and the small storefronts alike – that lives for this window of excessive buying certainly benefits from Christmas as a season of giving. Then there are the “offended,” who demand “safe spaces” and claim but never demonstrate harm from the exposure to certain beliefs of faith, especially of the Judeo-Christian belief, that are universally good – charity, love and sacrificial giving.
In the lexicon of life, the word “holiday” originates from the Old English, haligdg. Brace yourself, you fragile snowflakes of delicate esteem, it means holy day. Oh, dear. A day that is deemed holy, “sacred” and “devoted entirely to the deity or the work of the deity” according to Merriam-Webster, is celebrated by billions globally because it honors an aspect of their faith.
Simply, Christmas commemorates the ultimate gift of love through Jesus Christ, who was born to die for the sins of the world.
Hmm. Maybe if we rewrote the story to reflect the victims of climate change, Mary and Joseph, being forced to flee their hometown, Nazareth, to find shelter in Bethlehem from harsh environmental conditions, it would be palatable to the secular left that worships at the altar of their trinity – me, myself and I.