In Defense of Christmas by Melody Seppi

"On this rock [Christ] I will build My Church

and the Gates of Hell will not prevail against it."

Halloween has long held proudly the stigma of witchcraft and pagan idol worship, but Christmas? It is said by some that both are high feast days especially for witchcraft, the occult and false gods worshiped by pagan peoples. You can pick any day of the year and if you or I went back far enough we could find something terrible or horrendous, great or simply wonderful that happened on that day.

On October 31^st Satan is worshiped and God Glorified: Satan through the participation of thousands in the cute-ifacation of magic, witchcraft, the dumbing down and open rebellion to God’s law-word, and God honored and glorified through the remembrance of Reformation Day celebrating the marvelous works of God in the Reformers: Luther, Calvin, Knox and many others. On this day Martin Luther nailed his 95 thesis to the Church door in Wittenberg.

During the early missionary movement in Europe after the fall of Rome, tribe after tribe were converted to Christianity, the winter cult festivals were gone—leaving a gaping void—and as a result of following Christ their cultures were radically changed, instead of sin, bondage, a culture of death & human sacrifice, there was liberty in His law, freedom in Christ, a culture of Life, and the worship of the one true and living God.

The celebration of Christmas was birthed out of a movement of building the foundations of Christendom. In the midst of seemingly impenetrable darkness the light of Christ shone in glory, instead of the winter cult festivals, the celebration of the birth of our Savior. The old has passed away, and behold all things are made new.

As George Grant says: “Joy replaced desperation. Celebration replaced propitiation. Christmas feasts replaced new moon sacrifices. God replaced Baal, Molech, Apollo, and Thor. Glad tidings of great joy indeed.”

Veritas Liberabit Vos