Is Christmas Pagan?

I want to go to some pains to explain that I mean no offense to Christians. I am indebted to Christians and Christianity in many ways.

I am indebted to Christianity because without it, I would likely know nothing of the Tanakh. I am indebted to Christians because they are the last bastion of divine ethics in a country and world rapidly heading the way of Molech. Were it not for Christians, we would certainly be further gone down the path of destruction than we are. Indeed, I firmly believe that G-d has blessed the Christians, despite what I would perceive to be the shortcomings of their creed. I am personally indebted to Christians and Christianity.

This will be an unpopular viewpoint, but I firmly believe that the reason America had so much success from Plymouth Rock onwards is because of the blessing of G-d. The story of the founding of America is a very Biblical story. A cruel people who worshiped false gods and could not even come together in unity in the face of extinction, were supplanted by a people of the Book, however imperfectly they understood it, and however cruel they themselves were. That is a viewpoint that would likely generate a lot of hate in my direction, but I happen to believe it is true. That blessing is now in danger, if it is not gone altogether.

Thus having established that I think having Christians in this country is a very GOOD thing, I now have to explain the ugly truth.

Christmas is pagan because Christianity is pagan.

(Or shall we say, strongly tainted with paganism.)

The idea of a man being god is absolutely alien to the ancient Hebraic understanding of G-d. To say that G-d was EVER a created being, would utterly be blasphemous beyond description. One of the most fundamental of the Ten Commandments is this:


You will not make an image OR ANY MANNER OF LIKENESS of anything that is in the sky above or the Earth below or the waters below the Earth: you must not worship them.

It is repeated multiple times, even in the New Testament, that to worship a created being or G-d in the image of a created being is ultimate anathema.  N E V E R  do it.

Well, a man is a created being. Jesus was a man.

Just to recap, G-D ALONE delivered the Israelites from the power of a man who claimed to be a god. Pharaoh claimed to be a god. The idea that G-d would deliver them from one man to deliver them to another man is ludicrous on its face. G-D alone, YHWH alone, is our salvation and our King.

No man ever was or could be.

The Israelites were delivered from the subjugation of Man altogether, into covenant with G-d's laws not human laws. We have no other king. We need no other king. When the Israelites decide to choose a king in the books of Samuel, G-d denounces that choice but allows them to have their way. Allows them to sin, basically, because that is what they choose. And what sin are they committing? Believing that a man is fit to rule, which overturns the entire salvation of the Hebrew people in Exodus.

They have gone back to Pharaoh, in other words. They have chosen Pharaoh over G-d. David, Jesus, Pharaoh, Solomon, makes no difference. The choice of ANY HUMAN KING over G-d's law and G-d's kingship is sin.

So the idea that Jesus as a Davidic king would be a GOOD thing is wrong-headed. Davidic kings, kings in general, are something that G-d allowed but not something that G-d condoned. He blessed David for Israel's sake, and blessed other kings, but that does not mean that G-d blesses the IDEA of human kings. The books of Samuel makes that clear.

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One of the highest commandments in the Tanakh is to know and respect this simple statement:

HEAR O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR G-D, THE LORD IS ONE 

(or, THE LORD ALONE. Both readings are correct. The Lord is One, The Lord Alone, The Lord is Unity, are all technically correct readings of the original Hebrew.)

Simple logic should tell Christians that Jesus was not G-d. Just answer this question: did Jesus die on the cross?

If the answer is yes, Jesus was not G-d because the idea of G-d dying is ultimate blasphemy. G-d CANNOT DIE. To think He could is a stupid, blasphemous and unreal conception.

If the answer is no, that Jesus' death was mere appearance only, then his death was useless because it was nonexistent. An illusory sacrifice is not a sacrifice.

Indeed, the idea of Jesus dying for sins appears to be based on some crazy idea that G-d never forgave anyone their sins before that. In the Tanakh G-d forgave sins many times! Psalmists looked forward to their redemption from death, from Sheol, and no carpenter from Galilee was mentioned. G-d alone would save them. Only G-d could.

So based on every part of the Tanakh (including Isaiah which is a straw desperately grabbed,) the idea that a man could be G-d or that G-d would ever Himself appear as a man was beyond wrong, it is ludicrious. It's madness.

It is idolatry.

Sorry to say it, but I am bound to tell the truth. Christianity is idolatrous. It is a measure of how bad off the world is now that an idolatrous religion is much to be preferred to the available alternatives. Christianity was founded by pagans, influenced by pagans, and introduced the idea of Jesus as himself G-d (which is never clearly stated in the oldest documents.) All this was the later interpretation of the pagan Roman Catholic Church in the early centuries A.D.

Now, is modern Judaism also an idolatrous religion? As it currently exists, not as it was stated in the Tanakh, YES it is. I'll tell you why.

Rabbinical Judaism regards the opinions of rabbis to be equal to direct statements from G-d in the Torah. That is blasphemy. Rabbinical Judaism reveres the idea of a Messiah, which as I already stated is completely wrong-headed (no human would ever, ever be fit to be king - no king but G-D ALONE.)



So there is plenty to go around for everyone, but in short Christmas is pagan because CHRISTIANITY is pagan.