Christmas isn’t all that political … right (from Northwest Indiana Politics)
I couldn’t resist, even though I know you will all be spending time with family and unwrapping presents … so no one will have time to read this political site … right!
Christmas is a bit political isn’t it? (See Christmas Story on Blueletter) If you believe, as I do, that Jesus is actually God incarnate, born of the virgin Mary, in a stable in Bethlehem roughly 2,000 years ago. If you believe that this birth and his eventual crucifixion and resurrection make up the perfect trifecta of prophetic implication, such that humans can have contact with the only Holy deity. Then Christmas is a lot political, and makes people around you cringe. Words we don’t use much in post modern society aren’t they? Words that can make a conversation go mighty quiet, and people walk away uncomfortable that anyone would be so rude to talk about religion or faith. It’s so much easier to pretend about Santa Claus or gaze at a lit tree, but to push faith in Jesus that’s going too far.
It’s not that faith is uncomfortable, it’s that a faith of specifics and a faith in a specific truth like Christ is uncomfortable. In this culture we celebrate the fact that everyone has their own beliefs … yet the downside is that we’ve lost the ability to truly debate which of those beliefs are right and which are just plain hogwash. It’s even become rude to suggest that one has a belief that is true, since this assigns “false” to another belief. Let’s be frank, truth exists and all other beliefs are false, even if that hurts someone feelings.
Please enjoy your families, pray for peace in Jerusalem, remember Jesus’ birth in the lowly manger, give gifts of joy, worship with hearts of grace and mercy … Merry Christmas Indiana.
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I also have some puzzlement over folks who seemingly aren’t all that concerned about whether their belief is right or not.
I believe that Jesus was a man with some pretty good philosophies primarily cobbled together from the teachings of the rabbis that came before him. His teachings were held to by a small number of followers in the years after his death. These beliefs were noticed by a Roman bureaucrat named Paul who was more instrumental in developing Christianity than Jesus himself was. The divinity of Jesus and his miracles were emphasized more after his death than during his life.
In the early years, the tenets of Christianity were changed flexibly to meet the needs of the time and was still extremely malleable at the time of guys like Augustine and Ambrose. To the extent Paul’s notions were at odds with those expressed by Jesus, the Church fathers threw in their lot with Paul. The Biblical canon wasn’t closed until a couple hundred years after the death of Jesus and its composition was settled upon by mortals with all their failings.
Jesus wasn’t born at Christmas time, rather the date of his birth was probably unknown but celebrating it at Christmas allowed Christians to capitalize on various solstice traditions.
Still, I appreciate the idea of Christmas, with its emphasis on compassion, charity, and love of family. I can embrace that even if I don’t believe in the divinity of Christ. And I can appreciate those ideals being embraced by others regardless of whether embrace is inspired by a belief in the divinity of Jesus.