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Category Archives: Christmas
Jews & Christmas (12-26-20)
I’m accidentally muted for the first two minutes. 02:00 The war on Christmas, http://www.vdare.com/articles/war-against-christmas-2005-competition-iii-christmas-jews-de-assimilation-and-decline 11:00 Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990 19:00 WASP A.R. Gurney’s play Love Letters, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136100 21:00 T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” documentary … Continue reading
Jews & Christmas
Stan Adams writes: At my first office job (in college), I continued my childhood habit (instilled in me by my mother and grandmother) of giving small Christmas gifts to all of my co-workers. One of my female co-workers looked at … Continue reading
From Adventism To Judaism
Background.
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LAT: The profane origins of ‘Merry Christmas’
I wonder why the news media and the entertainment industry revel in trashing the sacredness of Christmas. Why are there incentives among our elites to trash the public observance of Christianity? A nation that does not have a sacred zone … Continue reading
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The case for Christmas
Ricky Vaughn writes: “Stephen Miller is the most based Jew of all time.” Stephen Miller writes in 2006: It’s the most wonderful time of year-but you wouldn’t know it looking around Duke’s campus. You’d probably find more Christmas decorations at … Continue reading
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Some of Jerusalem’s rabbis are waging their own war on Christmas
Different groups have different interests. Diversity and proximity equal conflict. Washington Post: In a letter faxed to hoteliers in Jerusalem, two of the city’s chief rabbis warned against displaying Christmas trees on their premises. “As the secular year ends we … Continue reading
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Forward: ‘This rhetorical shift may give opportunity for the majority to impose views on the minority’
Nathan Guttman writes: Many of Trump’s supporters, especially Christian evangelicals, have responded well to his campaign promise of restoring Christmas’s role as an all-American major holiday, a concept seen as providing the religious element to Trump’s pledge of “making America … Continue reading
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Should Jews Say Merry Christmas?
As a convert to Orthodox Judaism, I try to not say, “Merry Christmas.” Even though it is lame, I try to say instead, “Happy holidays” to the goyim. If I were to say, “Merry Christmas,” I am granting legitimacy to … Continue reading
Whites & Christmas
Comments: * Asian Americans are like Orthodox Jews/Hasidic Jews and Muslims, in that they do not celebrate Christmas unless they are Catholic Filipinos who were colonized by the Spaniards who brought this yearly European tradition to The Philippines. The vast … Continue reading
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ALL-STAR TEAM OF JEWS DEFILES CHRISTMAS IN BILLY BOB THORNTON’S ‘BAD SANTA’
I wonder if these Jews think that there will be no consequences to defiling Christmas and Christianity? Adam Chandler writes: Ten years after its release, Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa, a rail whiskey blend of Brecht and Bukowski, has become a … Continue reading
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