Un Christ Mass, Reindeer Instead. By Gene W. Edwards. Posted, 12/27/2023.

I’VE HAD IT with incessant, and weeks-long, songs around but not about “Christmas,” about reindeer, sleighs, snowmen, and Santa Claus. After you’ve heard some of those songs hundreds of times, they are BORING, and they have nothing at all to do with Jesus’ birth, Christmas. The same condemnation applies to greeting cards about everything but the birth of Christianity 2,000 years ago, which has passed the test of time and is as relevant today as it was in Roman Judea.

Instead, Christmas is all about selling. Moneychangers are in the temple! Nah, you don’t have to throw them out. Just ignore them and celebrate Christmas for what it means: the gradual evolution of man, from then to eventually now, and in the future, take his place among the stars — as a spiritualized being! That’s the potential of the real Jesus’ message. All else is ignorant and distracting adultery.

Hmm. By the way, this time of year male reindeer lose their antlers, and their women are pregnant and hardly moving around at all, let along flying. No adult believes in that myth stuff about flying B.S., even if you are under it and get hit with it, or St. Nick being omnipresent, omnipotent, and (milk and cookies) omnivorous. Nor does he scoot his rotund body down and up chimneys. What would Freud say about that?

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Instead, go to YouTube and listen to “Silent Night,” and “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,” and “Oh, Holy Night,“ and buy a Bing Crosby Christmas album or one…