Merry Christmas to All

Merry Christmas. I like Christmas. I like being a Christian. I just wish their were less hoopla over the commercialism, and more focus on Christ's message. Plus, the mythology surrounding gift-giving is based in a Zoroastrian religion. In fact, many Gnostic religions believe the Magi were looking for the re-incarnation of Zoroaster -- one of the first monotheistic religions that was based in an theology of love and tolerance. (Key word: tolerance. Therefore Akhenaton doesn't count.)

I love my presents as much as the next person. But, I am brought to tears to think how we've twisted a message of love into a theology of jingoism, xenophobia and fear. Where is our "teology;" our desire to better ourselves through achieving what we think is divine? In that case, as Christians, shouldn't we cheer for joy and love, not coercing salvation? Isn't the "First Half" of the Bible a polemic that shows the downfall a civilization meets when she seeks to meld her desire for vengeance from her enemies with divine law?

Eck, I'm just talking. Don't listen to me. I'm just an old-timer ranting about what ain't right in the world. Don't let me spoil the holidays.

89.7 is playing Christmas Carol. I was always spooked by the ghosts as a kid. Not just any ghosts, but the ones on the Disney Cartoon, where Goofy played a very convincing Jacob Morley. (Whatever happen to Goofy?) I used to sleep with the nitelight on -- every night -- for like 3 years after watching it (in 1999). I think that's why I'm such a goody-two shoes because I don't want to be visited by an unfortunate souls on three consecutive nights.

... And to All a Good Night!