Dec. 20, 2024 - The David Knight Show
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| Well, finally, as we're starting to come to a close, this article from The Center. | |
| And I thought it was really good. | |
| Santa is competing with Christ for the worship of your children. | |
| You know, it's not just at the schools. | |
| It's the culture that we live in. | |
| And he says, this isn't the benevolent figure of yore, a generous bishop pointing weary sinners to Christ. | |
| Today's Santa is something even more sinister. | |
| He is a usurper, an idol, an affront to the glory of the incarnate God who is the true focus of Christmas. | |
| As I've said, Jesus saves, Santa sells merchandise. | |
| Let's start with the obvious. | |
| Children are practically taught to treat Santa Claus like a deity. | |
| They bow to him literally, figuratively. | |
| They sit on his throne if he allows it. | |
| They whisper their deepest desires into his or some weird old man's ears as if he's got the power to grant it to them. | |
| Yeah, because we got someone who is, as the song goes, Santa Claus coming to town, you know? | |
| He's omniscient. | |
| He's omnipresent. | |
| You know, he knows if you've been good or bad. | |
| He knows if you're sleeping. | |
| He knows if you're awake and all the rest of this stuff, right? | |
| These are all attributes of God. | |
| You know, and that song goes back to 1934. I looked it up today. | |
| That has been around for a long time. | |
| But they go to painstaking links many parents do to perpetuate this lie. | |
| And I always said that, you know, I told our kids there is no Santa Claus because I didn't want to have a situation someday where they think, well, they lied to me about Santa Claus. | |
| What else is he lying to me about? | |
| Don't lie to your kids. | |
| And I just, you know, always remind him every Christmas, and I said that to a whistler one year when he was little, and he said, I know that, Dad. | |
| If there was somebody like Santa Claus, they'd be in the Bible. | |
| I thought that was the best reply I've ever seen. | |
| But this is idolatry, says dissenter, and I agree with that. | |
| Santa isn't just a figure of fantasy. | |
| He's a competitor competing with Christ himself for the worship of children. | |
| And the world has been more than happy to make room for him. | |
| Children sing songs in his honor, songs that extol his virtues and his power. | |
| They sit for photo shoots with him, eager to bask in the glow of his presence. | |
| They leave offerings for him, milk and cookies. | |
| Like a pagan ritual. | |
| Some children even pray to him, clasping their hands and whispering requests because Santa, let's not forget, has become their benevolent giver of gifts. | |
| And let's not let the adults off the hook either. | |
| Santa doesn't just captivate children. | |
| He enchants grown men and women too. | |
| Adults perpetuate the myth with zeal, investing time, money, and creativity into the charade. | |
| They wear his likeness on ugly sweaters. | |
| They plaster his face on cards. | |
| The irony here is razor sharp. | |
| While churches lament the secularization of Christmas, they often fail to recognize that Santa has become its golden calf. | |
| That's it, right? | |
| Fox News. | |
| Oh, wow. | |
| Look, you can't say Merry Christmas. | |
| But like Megyn Kelly would say, but we all know that Santa Claus is white. | |
| What ridiculous nonsense. | |
| Santa is the idol par excellence, tailor-made for a materialistic society. | |
| You get gifts without repentance. | |
| You get blessings without sacrifice. | |
| You get joy without the cross. | |
| He's everything our sinful hearts desire, generous, non-judgmental, and entirely harmless. | |
| Some will argue that Santa is just a bit of fun, a harmless tradition. | |
| We ought to lighten up, right? | |
| But this is a lie that we tell to ourselves to justify our complicity. | |
| Idols are never harmless. | |
| They always distort the truth. | |
| And he said, a lot of this turns Christmas into a time of, you know, what can I give? | |
| Instead of that, you get, what can I get? | |
| And look, I understand. | |
| You know, I grew up in a household that they didn't even celebrate Christmas from a religious standpoint. | |
| We have to also, inside what we look at from a religious standpoint, distinguish between truth and falsity. | |
| I don't care about what time of year it is. | |
| I'm not going to die on it being December 25th. | |
| I don't think it was. | |
| I've got other times of the year that I think it was. | |
| But I think it's an opportunity to celebrate Christ's incarnation. | |
| It's an opportunity for us to talk about it, and we still should. | |
| Civil, a place I started homeschooling this year. | |
| Best thing I've ever done as a parent. | |
| David convinced me it was possible. | |
| Well, thank you for giving me that information. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I wish I had the Christmas night album. | |
| Hot dog! | |
| You can get the Christmas night album at thedavidnightshow.com for just $13.99. | |
| It was right in the second floor there, see? | |
| What'd you wish, George? | |
| Well, not just one wish, a whole hat for them. | |
| First, I'm going to the davidknightshow.com and purchase the Christmas Night album. | |
| Then I'm going to listen to Christmas classics, like... | |
| Are you going to throw a rug? | |
| I want the Christmas Night album, too. | |
| Hey, that's pretty good. | |
| Huffalo, girls, can't you come out tonight? | |
| Can't you come out tonight? | |
| David's Christmas Night album includes 21 instrumental Christmas melodies like God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Silent Night, and as all new, I'll be home for Christmas. | |
| What do you want? | |
| You want the moon? | |
| Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. | |
| I'll take it. | |
| Then what? | |
| And then I'll buy you your own download of David Knight's Christmas Night album. |
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