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The most seminal event in human history — the birth of God in human form — is celebrated on December 25th each year, even though the actual birthdate of Jesus Christ isn’t truly known. It’s believed to have taken place sometime in early spring. 

There has never been, nor will there ever be, a figure as polarizing as Jesus. No, not even Donald Trump comes close to generating intense love or hatred in the way that mankind has treated the Son of God for the last 2,000-plus years. 

The culture war on Christmas that’s been ongoing in this country for the last 60 years or so continues, although there might be a bit of a pendulum swing back to faith after Americans witnessed how far progressives pushed during their time in power the last four years. And the pendulum swing begun with a cartoon.

Back in the 1965, Charles Schulz had to fight with his producers and CBS executives over A Charlie Brown Christmas, because of one scene. This one. 

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The Bible thing scared them, and begged Schulz to consent to remove it. He stood his ground. For decades, it was the only time during the year on network television The Gospel was told. Not from the book of Lebron, though.

On Christmas, Lebron James, shadow ambassador to the CCP, staked his claim for Christmas day ownership on behalf of the National Basketball Association. 

Set aside the fact that Christmas is technically the Lord’s day. Lebron’s mediocre team, the Los Angeles Lakers, is a staple playing on Christmas Day, but cannot draw the numbers they once drew, either in the arena or on television, largely because basketball has become unwatchable. 

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The election of Donald Trump in November provided a lot of data below the top line of winning the Electoral College decisively, and winning the popular vote by about a point and a half. The country reacted to virtually the same ticket – Trump V. Biden/Harris, by moving to the right nationally by about 6 points over the course of four years. Joe Biden beat Trump in 2020 by 4.5%. 

Economics, as is often the case in presidential elections, was the primary driver for Trump turnout. Whether it’s grocery bills, gasoline and/or energy prices, or housing unaffordability, inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Democratic Party’s stimulus spending was the number one issue. Illegal immigration, and the crime that flows from it, ranked right up there as well. But underlying all of the leading hot button issues is the overall sense that things are upside down. We’re not normal right now. Everything seems like it’s going to hell.  

Woke culture overreached badly under the Biden administration, being that the country is at least 80/20 against it. Preferred pronouns, men playing in women’s sports, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusivity), especially coming out of the pandemic, caused a lot of people, including many younger Americans, to either discover or rediscover religious faith. They are seeking order and purpose out of the chaos we’re currently in, something government has shown clearly it will never be able to provide.

The list is mounting of companies that have abandoned DEI programs because of the backlash from the majority of Americans. Ford, Toyota, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and Starbucks are just a few of the big names on this list. Disney is also walking back off the ledge of woke they found themselves for the last few years. They have removed trans-themed plotlines from their forthcoming Pixar animated film project, and at the theme parks, at least at California’s Disneyland, they’ve removed Pride day from their annual list of “days”. 

My wife and I were just at the park a couple weeks ago in order to watch the Candlelight Processional. Disneyland doesn’t advertise this, nor does it have to. Thousands of people just know about it, make reservations, and show up to watch. It’s glorious to see the true story of Christmas set to orchestration and a several hundred-piece amalgam of local choirs, narrated by a celebrity reading out of Luke, Matthew, and Isaiah. 

All this is good news. I’m not optimistic that culture will get back to where it morally used to be, but a cessation of decline, even if it’s a dead cat bounce, will be quite welcome for the next few years. But that doesn’t meant the progressives will stop their anti-God march. They’re not about to roll over and give up the ground they believe they’ve gained. 

Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist, reads the room a little differently than you and I, releasing this column four days before Christmas. 

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Politico came out with this headline.

The Guardian offered up similar reasons to bring you this breaking news.

Then you’ve got a legion of these types of people who are offended when you wish them a Merry Christmas.

This is the same argument people use who get tweaked when you misgender them. This, of course, is utter nonsense. If this logic holds, a right to not have to hear something that offends them, I would never have to wait the mandatory 5 seconds before skipping a YouTube commercial interruption of a Goose concert I’m trying to watch. I’d never have to be subjected to a Kamala Harris ad while trying to watch a football game. You have a lot of rights as an American. one of them is not the right to not be talked to. If you wish to live a life where no one talks to you, there are places in the country, and the world, where that can happen. If you’re around other people, they’re going to talk to you, and then they’re going to ask you if you need solar panels on your house. 

Pronouns are parts of speech in the English language that allow me to refer to other people in a fashion that the vast majority of other English speakers will understand. If you are a he but want to be referred to as a she, I’m calling you a he, because that’s how I refer to a male person in the third person. That’s my pronouns. I may look at you funny if you refer to me with a pronoun that doesn’t make sense, but that’s not going to ruin my entire day.  

Telling me that I cannot say Merry Christmas to someone because they might be offended violates my freedom to practice the religion of my choice. My faith, Evangelical Christianity, holds two basic tenets. I must believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and get to know Him through the study of God’s Word. Number two, I must tell others about Him and his saving grace. That’s it. Those are the big two items on the list. If someone rejects me wishing them Merry Christmas, that’s on them, not me. You’ll notice that Christians are not calling for a ban on the term ‘happy holidays’. When I hear it, I almost reflexively reply with Merry Christmas, because I can, and because it more aptly describes the reason for the season. Take that, Kamala.

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Kamala’s husband, the second fella, Doug Emhoff, was at a Chanukah party and had this to say to the group. 

Don’t get me wrong. There are plenty of Jews who are fearful about living openly as Jew. We saw plenty of that at the Ivy League schools over the last few years, and a lot out on the West Coast at UCLA, where activist literally were conducting Jew hunts on campus. All of that is bad, and it’s almost exclusively anti-semitism on the ideological hard left right now, because Democrats are appealing to them for their vote. Certainly, the far right certainly has its share of Jew hatred as well, but the party as a whole rejects wholly the antisemitic ugliness we saw during Joe Biden’s presidency. Doug Emhoff, however, is not facing that problem, nor is Kamala Harris his protectorate. His premise is a straw man. 

Of all the things I’m most grateful about after winning the election, right at the top is an assurance that religious liberty will be protected at all levels of government for the foreseeable future. 2020 was billed as a return to normalcy campaign, but 2025 will actually be that return to normalcy, and a healthy respect for religion is what will make that possible.