A Photo-op with Jolly Old Santa, Square One Mall, Mississauga
I'm trying to imagine what Larry Auster would have said, this Christmas. Everywhere people are talking about "goodwill" and "peace" and being "merry," but the world is showing very little of that.
I wrote on Christmas Eve about the lecture I attended where Michael Coren presented his book on the massacres of Egyptian, and other Middle Eastern, Christians by Muslims.
Right here in Mississauga, we may have all Christmas decorations up, but the malls are not playing carols much (in fact, in the main areas, where there is no music at all, the silence is palpable), and the stores are all half-hearted about their decorations. I would have thought that malls would go all out, but the effort here is restrained.
Celebration Square, right outside the mall, though, is fully decked with Christmas trees and lights. The prevailing (for now) Christian tradition was behind these Christmas designs. It is pleasant to be around such pretty, twinkling lights and colorful decorations. But it is all generic, with no mention about the real reason for Christmas. There is no nativity, and no mention of, or reference to, the baby Jesus, whose birth is what this whole thing is about after all.
Everyone can participate in this generic Christmas. Everyone can have "goodwill toward men" when their specific ways of life and beliefs are not threatened. And we can all sing "Silent Night" as long as we also have the jingle bells song, and that one about the frosty snowman, which tell us how wonderful the wintery weather is, but say nothing about Mary or Jesus. And that is how we have now structured Christmas, an amalgam of events that are mostly fun, and with a small multicultural nod to the religious aspect. But always full of cheer and goodwill. Then everyone can join in!
Michael Coren, during his lecture when he presented his new book Hatred: Islam's War against Christianity, talked about Middle Eastern Christians, and specifically in the Egyptian Christians.
But he could have talked about the war against Christianity here. So far, it is still somewhat cautious, although there are occasions when it is directly attacked, but when the holy message is continuously, and repeatedly omitted, that is a war that is being waged.
A couple of days ago when I was at the mall, there was a large line-up for Santa. It was an interesting mesh of multicultural kids, and I wondered how many of their families really do believe in the message of Christmas.
Christmas has been translated into a generic, happy period, where people give each other gifts and have a day off to have a nice meal with their families.
This diluted, non-religious Christianity is what will eventually evolve into the lethal, anti-Christ Christianity that is making its way around the world.
As I wrote yesterday, about Coren's presentation:
I think the situation [in Egypt] is as bad as Coren told us last night at his presentation...where Coren said that this is worse than anything he has ever seen, and it has been kept hidden for so long that these people have been indeed forgotten.
It is time now not to betray them. But, not simply for them. We all stand to be in their shoes.
Skating around the bright Christmas lights at Celebration Square, in Mississauga
Here is what Larry wrote, in 2008, about Christmas. I read this after I wrote the above post.
As I type, I’m glancing at some grotesque thing on ABC, about the Grinch and Christmas, in which humans interact in brotherhood with a variety of monstrous looking other species, and a little girl has a tender relationship with an unsettlingly hideous but sensitive and kind-hearted being called the Grinch, and everyone loves each other. This is not our society celebrating the beautiful holiday of Christmas. This is the Liberal Controllers of our society carefully teaching children an unnatural and dangerous lie that they would never believe unless they were carefully taught. How many whites will militate against vitally necessary immigration restrictions in the decades to come...?
Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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