America's Two Christmases, and Why Santa Lives On
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Why Santa Lives On
SANTA IS HAVING A MOMENT—well, the same moment he has every year. This once-obscure fourth-century saint, a bishop fancifully alleged by medieval hagiographers to h…
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Trump officials showed their hostility to the Constitution on Christmas Day… The Trump administration’s overtly religious social media posts appear to forget a key line from the First Amendment, writes Anthony L. Fisher at MS Now.
Good Cheer… Jay Nordlinger on a program of Christmas music.
The Best Things… The Defector staff heard In 2025.
This week’s discussion prompt: What is something over the holidays that motivated you? (For me: Realizing that Abigail Spanberger is about to become Governor of Virginia in mere days.)
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Sam Stein spreading rumors????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxkvFqL8jx0
God is dead. This is the important lesson the Bulwark needs to learn. Moving forward, humanity needs to shed religion. It has become the biggest procrastination on the human project. It is akin to abuse to raise a child religiously. Scare children with hell, God's wrath, and being gay. What a nice set of values. No hate like Christian love.
We all see how the big fights are within the Judeo-Christian-Mulsim families. We also see our largest countries and institutions fail us. All of this in the context of the Bibles, God, Jesus, etc. And yet no true moral code exists within these paradigms. 10 commandments could be improved by a child. The books cannot be edited of the bad stuff: support of slavery, killing gays, etc.
We also need to look to doughnut economics. Look it up. Time to grow up and out of trickle down, tax cuts for the rich, and the sense that no rules are good rules.
Next year, celebrate the Winter Solstice Bulwark. Time to shed Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Happy holidays!!!!!