From the Editor
By Dr. Jay Zinn
In a day where universalism (all paths lead to God) is on the rise, tolerance for all other religions but Christianity has muddied the waters of truth. Christmas has been replaced with the Holiday Season and Jesus has been replaced with Santa Claus (not that I have anything against the original Saint Nicholas, the Bishop of Myra).
The Spirit of Christmas has been shrouded in political correctness. When shoppers head for the stores, they’re no longer greeted with “Merry Christmas!” Instead, it’s “Season’s Greetings,” “Happy Holidays,” or any other slogan that might serve to avoid the appearance of religious “intolerance.” Why intolerance? Because Christmas is about Christ and his birth. It’s his holiday. Jesus claimed that only he could save us from our sins, which reduces all other religions as false, null and void. This is what makes us intolerant of the so-called tolerant. To celebrate the true meaning of Christmas is to agree with who and what Christ claimed about himself. It is a “Christian” holiday hijacked by the “intolerant” minority of other religious faiths.
The fathers of “other” religions were men born from this world—born into sin, with sin in their lives. Not so with Christ. He was born into this world from the outside—born without sin, as God incarnate.
Man-made religions are created by those who better themselves through strict disciplines and religious ceremonies. They rise from the mire of their own guilt and shame, to a higher order of “self-induced” goodness (so as to calm their tormented conscience). They then compare their external purity with the lesser of human beings, and create a new pathway for all to enlightenment.
As the “enlightened-ones” evolve, their new-found religion grows into a following of believers who claim to be “another” path, or “the” path to eternal bliss. In the end, because it evolves from the imaginations of fallen man, it’s nothing more than a fragile house built on a foundation of sand—tolerant of universalism, but intolerant of the claims of Christ: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”
Jesus didn’t evolve out of history or the human race with its stain of sin, he was born into history. He wasn’t a fallen man who made himself a “better” man; he was born blameless and faultless in every way. Man’s religion evolves from the lowest point in life to the highest effort of religious achievement. Jesus, however, came from the highest place, the holiest of all places in heaven, and inserted himself into history through the lowliest door of the human flesh, in a manger, in the humble town of Bethlehem. No other man has that claim, which is why the word “Christmas” is disdained by the “politically correct” intolerant tolerant.
As for me and my house, however—Merry Christmas everyone!
Jay Zinn