When our Savior was born, there was no Christmas music playing in the hotels, if you could get into one. The Romans were moving people around for social control, while celebrating the pagan feast of Saturnalia, the birthday of the sun and light. Herod, the half–Arab King of the Jews, in the name of “choice” (his), ordered a mass post–partum abortion of all the male Christmas babies. No one had a clue that it was Christmas.

I write these articles to try to explain what is happening in our culture, behind and below the headlines, at the deepest spiritual level. A case in point: we have all noticed that the word “Christmas” is avoided in public discourse, more or less. On my local “cool Jazz” radio station, the cool host wished us “happy Holidays,” and then played “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Oops!

Surely sanity, fair play and the good old days of Christmas past will return! My sense is, though, if our social handlers and media moguls have anything to do with it, we are fast approaching the “last Noel.” The “Give–A–Christmas” charity drive has become the “Holiday Fund.” After Thanksgiving, we do our “holiday shopping,” to fill our children’s “holiday stockings,” when we get back from the office “holiday party.”

The sociologists saw this coming. “We used to be a Christian nation,” said sociologist Alan Wolfe of Boston University in 1998. “Recently we have become a nation tolerant of all religions” –except Christianity. Behind the diversity and tolerance lies the view all religions are ultimately the same. Since this is not the Christian message, Christmas will not bring us together, so Christmas must go. But not only Christmas.

Winter and Spring Break now replace Christmas and Easter. The Ten Commandments are banished from the public square. Academics no longer refer to history as BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini), but with the meaningless BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era), thereby eliminating Christ as the center of history. One apostate theologian predicts that in the future the world will begin redating history, replacing the year 2000 with GE 1, year one of the Global Era! At the street level, according to Barna, only 8% of Americans are evangelical. All this spells the end, not just of Christmas, but of Christendom.

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