How To Celebrate Christmas
Yuletide greetings from Yuri featuring holy art, Billy Graham, and the story of my spiritual journey
Comrades: Merry Christmas!
In March 2020, we left Karenland FUPAZ for several months to escape the COVID lockdowns. On Easter Sunday, I went for a hike. The trails were closed off with police tape, but I ignored them. Then a masked Karen started yelling at me to mask up and go home. For the first time, I felt demonic possession and mass formation psychosis. Hell is empty and all the devils are here; once you see them you can’t unsee them.
While resting at a babbling brook, I got goosebumps taking in its beauty in contrast to the ugliness I had just witnessed. Something supernatural spoke to me. The hair stood on the back of my neck. I felt compelled to learn more about Easter and Jesus Christ.
Then I found Billy Graham. He changed my life. I am awestruck by how his sermons are more relevant today than ever before. Through his crusades around the world, he preached the gospel to more humans in person than anyone in the history of Christianity. His estimated lifetime audience including TV/radio exceeds 2 billion. When he passed away in 2018, he was the first religious leader and fourth private citizen to Lie in Honor in the Capitol. His voice and preaching style are unmatched. Most of the churches in our area are demoralized, so I watch his videos every Sunday instead.
Here are my favorite Billy Graham sermons:
I did not grow up in a religious family and never went to church. However, I hope to raise Baby Yulia in a holy way. Her arrival into the world was by far the most spiritual event I have ever experienced. I lost many earthly things this year, but gained a heavenly peace. It has given me joy and resilience that I never knew. Memes help too.
The decline of Western civilization has followed the decline of Christianity. Several generations grew up in broken homes and schools with no moral foundation. Nature abhors a vacuum, so the secular cult of Current Thingism has filled the void. The masses now worship DEI, BLM, ESG, LGBTQ+, drugs, sportsball, Islam, video games, porn, and COVID fear porn through CCP TikTok sermons. Idolatry, blasphemy, degeneracy, and desecration are everywhere.
Once again, Yuri was right:
The most difficult and at the same time the simplest answer to the subversion, is to start it at the process of demoralization and even before. It’s to bring the society back to religion. Something that you cannot touch, or eat, or put on yourself. Something that rules society and preserves it. Have you ever met a person who would sacrifice his life, freedom for 2+2=4?. I never met someone who did. But millions sacrifice their life, freedom, comfort for things like God. Something which is not material moves society and helps it to survive. The moment we turn to this [2 + 2 = 4] and make it a guiding principle of our life and existence, we die. Even though this [math] is true and this [religion] you cannot prove.”
Christmas and Easter are about the birth and death of Jesus Christ. God sent his only son to die on the cross for our sins. It is the greatest sacrifice ever made and the greatest story ever told. I cannot comprehend that level of agape love. Both holidays have strayed away from religious meaning towards commercialization and demoralization. Christmas is saturated with Black Friday consoomerism, Santa with reindeer, and Frosty the snowman; Easter is centered around bunnies, eggs, and chocolate.
In times of darkness, we must let the light within us shine brighter than ever. I pray for those who are more upset by the existence of this Substack than the darkness it shines a light upon.
Thank you for all your prayers and kind words for our Godson, who is in for the battle of his life against leukemia:
Let us all pray that the world can rediscover the true spirit of Christmas.
Merry Christmas to All, and to all a Good Night!
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Merry Christmas, Yuri! Thanks for a year of great posts to help keep us all sane. I had a similar experience to the one you had with Billy Graham. I was a typical “religion isn’t logical, so I’ll smugly dismiss it with no further thought or reflection” atheist for a long time. I came across C.S. Lewis’s “Mere Christianity” and over the course of several months began to peel back some of the layers of my own ignorance. I think Lewis has an apologetic style that helped me get over a lot of ego-related mental blocks. To start seeing further than just what is measurable and tangible to us.
Thanks again, I will keep your godson in my prayers.
I was raised evangelical fundamentalist and watched a lot of Billy Graham growing up. After attending Christian college I left the church behind and turned to the ancient pagan religions, or so I thought. The past five years have been quite eye-opening and we are indeed in a spiritual battle. Being raised protestant, and even in Christian college, our Christianity classes started with the reformation. A couple years ago I wanted to find the roots of Christianity which has let me to Eastern Orthodoxy. It is amazing and I'm continuing to learn all I can. The closest Orthodox church is over an hour away, so I don't go often, but when I do it is the liturgy is the most worshipful, reverent service I've ever experienced. Once I got the idea of the icons and saints, it has added to my understanding of faith and guidance.
I'll be praying for your godson.