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Jason Pitzl-Waters on Dec 9th 2008 at 3:01 pm Uncategorized

The Christians Want to Give It Back!

You know you’re in for a good time when a Christian editorial about Christmas starts off with a H.L. Mencken quote. Writer and budding parenting guru Tony Woodlief wants to give Pagans the greatest gift of all this holiday season, he wants to give us our winter holiday back.

“We succeeded in supplanting the pagan holiday, but we didn’t rid ourselves of the pagans. Instead, a good many of us joined in, gradually helping to associate Christmas with over-consumption, drunken revelry, and self-centered celebration. One can’t help but wonder if Christ would just as soon have us call what America now celebrates something else, something that doesn’t invoke his name. In this I find myself increasingly on the side of the grievance-minded and the anti-Christians—let’s publicly call this big event the “Happy Holidays,” or “Winter Festival,” or even “Saturnalia,” and stop—for the love of God—calling it Christmas.”

We here at The Wild Hunt fully support Woodlief’s proposition for Christians to fully surrender to a post-Christian inevitability. Here’s hoping his suggestion for all Christians to “quietly celebrate the birth of Christ in our churches and homes” reaches far and wide! Now that Pagans have retaken Halloween, and the tide is turning for the Winter holidays, could it be time for “the grievance-minded and the anti-Christians” to set their sights on Eas… I mean Eostre?

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6 responses so far

  • Tomb

    Eeeeech he does not sound like a actual supporter of pagans. He is definitly taking a more condeming tone of us hahaha. Ah, but let them have their dislike and we can get out holiday back.

  • WitchDoctorJoe

    *Easter* Oh crap, here comes Jesus! Quick! Hide the eggs!!!

  • Celestite

    Christmas, Solstice, Yule, it’s what you make it. Nobody forces people to go on a buying frenzy, spending too much money and wearing out their limited vocabulary of curses. Many people of all religions have given up the rat race and just celebrate whatever they believe in at this time of year, quietly, sans piles of gifts. That said, I would say a hearty ‘thank you’ if the Christians en masse decided to pick another day for their celebration. First look at a good pagan calendar and then pick a day that something important isn’t going on.

  • Kyt Dotson

    We’ll take it!

  • Yewtree

    I object to his association of “pagan” with “over-consumption, drunken revelry, and self-centered celebration” — nope, I think he’ll find that is called hedonism or perhaps materialism. But still, why don’t they celebrate Christmas in September when he was supposedly actually born? So yeah, we’ll have it back.

  • dragondaddy

    Yeah, it’s not exactly supporting pagans, but I’ll take my Yuletide back anyway. Our holiday wasn’t gift giving just lots of food and companionship, the way it should be.