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Tuesday, December 25, 2018

The Spirit of X-Mas!

In mathematics, the end of every equation, trivial and non-trivial, is to find a certain unknown. This unknown could be represented by/with any variable one wishes to use.
In physics, certain kinds of radiations were discovered, and not knowing a suitable name to give them, scientists used the English-cum-Greek alphabetic characters such as α-, β-, and even X-to represent these unknown, or rather, unnamed radiations.
When St. Paul went to preach in Athens, he came across the alter dedicated to an unknown god. He made to cease the opportunity to educate the philosophical Greeks about their own unknown god. Well, we know the result of such bravery on the parts of St. Paul and the Athenians alike. Little Wonder why there is no Paul's letter to the Athenians!
The effect is the same in both instances: the concept of the Unknown. Before the fall of the Roman Empire, there was always a pagan feast on every 25th day of the 10th month, which happened to be December. This feast was the feast of a Roman god - the sun-god. During such feasts, people engaged in all sorts of immoral displays compounded by eating and drinking orgies. People always lived to suffer the consequences of these practices - yet those were religious practices done in the name of prayer and piety.
And these would go on until the Empire was overcome by the nascent Christianity. It was an option to abolish such ungodly practices. However, there was always a better option of turning what was bad, though based on some pious intentions to what would become plausible based on even holier intentions. The feast of the sun-god became the feast of the Son of God (don't mind those rhymes). And so the reason for the season became all the more worthwhile.
You would think everyone was happy with this transformation: you may be wrong eventually. The spirit of the world, which prompted and motivated such mundane activities in the feast of the initial feast of the sun-god has always fought to overturn this. And it seems it is gradually succeeding. Apart from bringing back those frivolities which would rather be known as side attractions to the celebration of Christmas, the world has slowly but steadily tried to get back the unknown god to the centre stages. It does this by distracting the minds of Christians (so called) from the real message of the Season, and by getting them to replace the Christ in Christmas with X. It presents it as shorter way, or rather time-saving way of saying the same thing. More insanely, it makes it look Childish to say Christmas; and a sign of maturity to say Xmas. However, the simple truth, you now can tell, is none of these but the removal of Christ from the hearts of those who claim to follow Him.
It is Christians, the so called who celebrate Christmas. And they are the ones who turn it to a mere celebration without the Christ. Just like in mathematics, we can always solve this riddle or equation in order to find the X - the unknown. When we do this, we shall also find that the place where X now occupies is the same place where Christ used to be.
Then and only then, will we see the need to do away with the world's X, and re-instate our own Christ. Until we do this, the Spirit of the season will always elude us.
Happy Christmas, (and not Xmas) to your
Have a tremendous and a blessed 12 days...

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