Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!
During this month of December, most Americans will celebrate Christmas. For Christians it commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, God becoming man. Also, for believers and many others, Christmas, as celebrated in America, is also a national tradition—one which profoundly expresses our heritage and culture.
As a consequence, Christmas has become a target for multicultural bigots who want to erase traditional America, particularly her religious and cultural antecedents, and erect a globalist Babel on the site. These elitists do this under the guise of promoting “tolerance,” but it is plain that they will tolerate no views other than their own. Thus they label any speech they hate as “hate speech,” and express utter contempt for traditional Americans.
An example of the latter was the statement by Barak Obama, during the last presidential campaign, that people in rural and small town America compensate for their alleged frustration and backwardness by embracing religion, guns and anti-immigration sentiments. On the contrary, one might wonder what elitists are compensating for when they so regularly denigrate their fellow citizens.
In any case, unfortunately, the campaign against Christmas has scored many successes. Knuckling under to the multi-cultists, quite a number of businesses, schools, and other institutions have replaced all references to what was Christmas with the bland and insipid “Holiday Season.” Even so, many Americans are not about to surrender the public recognition of Christmas. One simple way they stand for their faith and heritage is to ignore multi-cult, politically-correct etiquette and greet friend and stranger alike with “Merry Christmas.” Expressing good will to men, in this fashion, also serves to defy cultural tyranny. And that defiance is certainly a blessing to mankind.
Aside from Christmas, patriotic Americans may draw inspiration from the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, also celebrated in December. The story behind it is universal in its appeal and message.
It began a little more than a century and a half before the birth of Christ. During that time, adoption of pagan Greek culture was the mark of sophistication throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. It was the path often chosen by self-promoters with little loyalty to their own countries, people much like our modern globalists.
Backing this adherence to Greek culture with military might was the Greco-Syrian Empire ruled by Antiochus IV. Judea was one of his provinces. To placate Antiochus, the elites of Jewish society cast off their heritage, even abandoning the God of Israel to worship Greek deities. But not everyone in Judea went along. One who stood defiant against the Greco-Syrians and the Jewish elites was a man named Judah, later known for his military exploits as Judah Maccabee (Judah the Hammer).
He was a mere peasant, a man so unsophisticated that he could not appreciate the advantage of betraying his people and the God of his fathers. No doubt his self-presumed Jewish betters looked down on Judah. If the Hebraic language of that time had words equivalent to “hick,” “redneck,” “right-wing extremist” and “hater,” they probably hurled these epithets against him.
But whatever they may have called him, Judah Maccabee didn’t care. With zeal inspired by love of God and country, he took up arms, organized an army of his countrymen, and went to war. Sometimes outnumbered ten-to-one, he repeatedly defeated the forces of Antiochus and his puppets. With their armies beaten, Judah secured the freedom and independence of his country.
May patriots everywhere recall the exploits of Judah Maccabee, as globalism rears its ugly malice against God, country and heritage. Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah to all men of good will!