When the Churches Go Silent at Christmas | The American Spectator

Even in a deeply cynical time, Christmas remains the most joyous holiday of the year for most people, despite the communistic conspiracy against it — the Democratic Party, academia, the legacy news media, and the entertainment media. Because the concept of a Godsent male Savior come to Earth to save Man from sin demolishes their unsacred cows — the State as the supreme judge of morality, truth as a personal interpretation.

This godless philosophy has destroyed Western Europe. The Christian faith that built its civilization and sustained it through a thousand years of darkness has been abandoned, hollowed. Consequently, the two forces Europe soundly defeated — Islam and Marxism — are now conquering it with little resistance, enabled by the nations’ leaders.

All over the continent, charming Yuletide traditions are being canceled for fear of Muslim-induced violence. In Germany, for instance, the beloved Christmas markets, the Weihnachtsmärkte, were scrubbed this year. Evil feeds on fear, and removing a spiritual counter to it only hastens its advance.

Many Christmases ago, I took my first weeklong vacation from USA Today to visit a girlfriend, Jenny, in Dijon, France, where she was studying at the Centre International d’Études Françaises. One chilly night, we left her dorm to take a stroll around the town. Bypassing a small vintage church, we heard the most beautiful violin version of Arcangelo Corelli’s Christmas Concerto (Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8 [1714]) emanating from within. The door was unlocked, and we went inside.

The pews were empty. But on the stage stood nine young musicians in angelic white — six girls on string instruments, three men on horns, and their conductor — obviously rehearsing for a special event. On this night, however, Jenny and I were the whole audience, and we sat there for maybe an hour, enchanted and enthralled, aware we were enjoying something special.

Jenny died of cancer around eight years ago. Her sister Caroline gave me the sad news,  adding one tidbit. For many years before she passed, Jenny often brought up that magical night in a little French church as the most wonderful of her life. That made me happy, if now melancholic. For a memory such as Jenny and I enjoyed will be shared by no one else ever again.

Odds are no church in France today would be trumpeting classical Christian music out to the night for fear of the Moors. The church door would be locked, perhaps permanently. That is if it were not now one of the dozen new mosques built this century in Dijon, where only one stood in 1990.

The Islamists alone did not crush Christmas in Western Europe. They had plenty of help from the secular Left. From people the Muslims would toss off rooftops or veil once they took full power. But only together can they accomplish their great common goal — the elimination of good family-raising society-building Christians who repel their delusions, perversions, and atrocities against babies and children. Christians who point out evil where it lurks, even when protected by its governmental vassals in Britain and Europe.

It could have happened to this country, and still might. But here there is resistance, mounted by the true believers of an old yet eternal story recorded 2,000 years ago: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14). And His glorious Nativity repels all the fantasy and fanaticism shoved on the weak-minded by the leftist-Islamic alliance.

Here, unlike Europe, Christians are winning the War on Christmas, much to the demonic shrieking of the Left. Because we have devout Christian leaders — even though a leftist killed one of the most influential, Charlie Kirk. Progressives scoff when President Trump celebrates “Merry Christmas” over “Happy Holidays.” They mocked the official White House X account photo of Trump beside a Christmas tree with the caption: “We’re saying MERRY CHRISTMAS again!”

But it sticks in their craw, because it exposes their agenda to devalue this most sacred day as a secularist holiday — or a fake one like Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa was fabricated by an anti-Christian black nationalist, Maulana Karenga, who said, “Jesus was psychotic,” and called Judeo-Christianity “spookism.” Which has not kept prominent Democrats from proclaiming their reverence for the sham Christmas substitute.

“Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories,” gushed Kamala Harris in 2020. “The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and we’d tell stories and light the candles.” That’s a story all right. Kwanzaa was created in 1966, Harris in 1964, and the Kwanzaa con didn’t catch on till the 1980s.

Christmas doesn’t need phony endorsement to thrive. On its side it has history — confirming Christ’s Baptism and Crucifixion. Music — some of the most beautiful songs ever composed, like Joy to the World (1719), Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (1739), O Come, All Ye Faithful (1744). Literature — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous, late 14th Century), A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, 1843), The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry, 1905), The Christmas Spirit (Lou Aguilar, 2020).

To quote the most famous line from the most famous Christmas story of all time — though it may soon be deemed hate speech in Europe — “God bless us, every one!”

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