Beullogeo's

Christmas has been tainted in the West by the very materialism which Jesus fought against. The Pharisaic menace are alive and well, and actively fighting to replace the spiritual essence of Christianity, and the feast of Christmas in particular, with an anti-Christian materialism.

Not that I wish to cast gloom upon the festivities, but it must be noted that Christmas is becoming every year more SHOPmas. People are judged by how much they spend, and how much they have spent on them. In the era of the phony Global Warming farce, people are encouraged to turn their homes into spiritually void illuminations, akin to the vulgar spectacle in the English seaside town of Blackpool. No mention of wasting electric and cutting one's carbon emissions is made as regards to these demonstrations of tackiness and egomania!

I am personally celebrating with my family in a low key and inexpensive manner. This does not mean that I do not love my family - far from it. I value my family in the truest sense. I see my kin for the spiritual beings they are. Sadly their are members of my family who prattle on about the Coca Cola advertising ploy known as Santa, but in my immediate family, the bearded salesman has no sway. We have been accused of neglect, for failing to spend a fortune on shiny bits of plastic which will be an amusement for a day, and forgotten tomorrow. Our Christmas is one of enjoying each others company, eating heartily and taking the time to reconnect free from the intrusion of the wage slavery of work.

Christmas should be a time for reflection. Rather it has become a time for anger and jealousy - for fevered planning and fear of disappointment for ones self and others. Not in our house though! My family is far from perfect, but we are at least to as great a degree as practicable, cushioned from the materialist madness sweeping the West.

Christmas is a time for giving - yes, but giving of ones self, not of material goods. Jesus Christ came to save us from the plague of commercialism. It is to crucify Him again to cavort in the diabolical dance of consumerism.

To all my readers I wish you a peaceful and contented Christmas. I wish for you the blessings which materialism cannot bring. Let us take this opportunity to recharge our batteries, to consider which battles we can win (and how to do so), and to accept that which is beyond us so that we do not expend our energies unnecessarily. Evil never rests, which is why our time for solace is under attack. We must fight in every way we can - starting with protecting and nurturing our loved ones in the real spiritual sense, not in the fake and illusory way of materialistic one-upmanship.

Merry Christmas!