The Holidays

Christmas is the main Holiday at this time of year. We celebrate on December 25 the birth of my Savior, Jesus Christ. Though it is not likely Christ was born in December (most scholars say the spring, and some have argued early fall as his approximate dates of birth), it is a fixed date of celebration, and the memory of what He brought us is the main theme.

Over the years, Christmas has picked up many traditions from many societies (Christmas trees, decorations, etc.) and incorporated those.

Some years back, the politically correct term "Happy Holidays" was pushed as a replacement for the more traditional "Merry Christmas" greeting. Let's analyze that.

The major Holidays this time of year are Christmas, New Year's day, and Hanukkah.

Christmas, we have covered.

New Year's Day is just that, the celebration of a New Year.

Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is a minor Jewish Holiday celebrating a time when the Jews took back their temple. The commercialization of Hanukkah has grown in the past 100-200 years, as the commercialization of Christmas has increased.


Another commonly noted event, Kwanzaa, is not a Holiday.

Here's why Kwanzaa is not a Holiday:
The word Holiday stems from the conjoining of two other words: "Holy Day."
To be "Holy" means that something is sacred, and worthy of spiritual respect.
Kwanzaa was formed in the 1960's.
Kwanzaa's founder, Maulana Karenga, is a Marxist. Karenga originally tried to deceive people into thinking that Kwanzaa was an ancient African tradition, but the information age shot that idea down, as Africans knew nothing of it.
In reality, Karenga created Kwanzaa to celebrate racist ideals. From the Link above:

"During the early years of Kwanzaa, Karenga said that it was meant to be an alternative to Christmas, that Jesus was psychotic, and that Christianity was a white religion that black people should shun."

No matter what anyone says, racist goals are in no way worthy of spiritual respect. Therefore, by definition, Kwanzaa is not a Holiday.



Therefore, I say Merry Christmas.