2006 Christmas

Christmas 2006

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

It seems to be, there are two different Christmas. One is the real one, the other one belongs to Hollywood. We have to deem Christmas as a Feast of Christ and not of anybody else. However Hollywood would have liked and would like to teach the people a Christmas without Jesus and they do it on a very common way.

If you would like to create fake things then you should have a pinch of the truth, you should mix it with a lot of fibs, and you will have a believable story.

The atheist manifesto insists that there is no God. This is a clear and wicked lie. It is very simple to identify it. But what, if the lie is a complicated mixture of crumbs of truth, fibs and whoppers. That kind of complex lie is confusing, because that kind of lie is called to ideology, which is always strongly manipulating as it comes out of its own nature.

You can see a general Santa Claus movie in the cinema, and you can meet in the movie an unreal Santa, who is obviously rather a sort of winter-season mysterious wizard in red clothes than a real Christian bishop of the city Myra of the ancient asian Greece from the III-rd century.

You can meet in that kind movies Jack Frost, Mother Nature, Father Time, Easter Bunny ! etc., everyone else but not Jesus, the Christ, who is the only subject of Christmas.

The Christmas is a remembrance day, not for shopping and selling, but it remembers us God’s unthinkable grace, that he gave himself us in a weak human child, whose rule is unendless, whose love is self-sacrificing and allmighty. (link to: Isaiah 9:5.)

We have to be faithful to the real Christmas, we must not ever forget who is who and what is what.

St. Nicholas,the ancient charitable greek bishop is real, the Santa Claus is a fairy tale.

The Christmas must be more than fairy tale, because the Lord is true, his Gospel is the truth, and the Christ child of Christmas is very real.

A Fairy Tale could be nice in itself, but being a mock reality it could confuse whole generations including children, our children.

St. Nicholas, the ancient greek bishop, was a true believer and a true follower of Jesus Christ, as he gave a sample of generousity for others, but after all we have an enormously generous giver, our Loving God, who is the real Father of Christmas, who gave his Son for the world by the Holy Spirit. Amen

Attila L. Gyorgy