An Innately Human Christmas

Remember Tash, the nurse who quit because of the mandates and I hired to help me out with domestic chores? Here's her three-month old son (with his dad) under our Christmas tree opening a copy of Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi...

Speaking about the sinister agenda to cancel Christmas trees and everything Yuletide, Neil Oliver recently observed:

...the story at the heart of Christmas is also the story at the heart of humanity and the best of human nature. It's a simple story about a family — indeed the making of a family by the birth of a baby. It's about a baby born into the most humble of circumstances — in a barn for animals — dependent upon the kindness of strangers.

Why would anyone good and honest want to take issue with the simplicity of the family and all that the family has meant and continues to mean?

Except, of course, that the family is the ultimate obstacle for those intent on resetting the world away from the human and in favour of the machine.

Again and again those who have it in mind to establish centralized top-down control of populations have targeted the family as the final stumbling block in their path.

Always, however, the family has prevailed, because the desire for family life is innately human.

The way things have been in the West for 2,000 years is a direct and undeniable consequence of the overarching influence of Christianity: Our ethics, our morality, the laws by which we live, commitment to the sanctity of the individual — all are founded upon the Christianity of our forebears.

You can listen to Neil Oliver's full talk on the December 3rd episode of GBNews or as part of the (highly recommended) newly released Christmas special with my favourite podcast, Just Right, titled "Peace on Earth — The Unknown Ideal."

Wishing you a Merry Christmas,

John C. A. Manley

PS Here's another photo of the tree (delivered yesterday by my resourceful proofreader Pete "Typolino" Toccalino), along with Tash, Pascal, baby Orville, my son Jonah and me...

PPS My late wife's favourite Christmas album, ever since she was a little girl, was The Roger Whitaker Christmas Album. Her favourite song was "Darcy the Dragon." Our son Jonah's is "Momma Mary." Mine is "The Governor's Dream." It's available on Spotify, YouTube Music, Deezer, iTunes and Discogs. Here's Nicole with our son Jonah back in Christmas 2012...
 

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