Right Les, Christmas has become a commercialize festival of consumption, but that doesn't make it any less illegitimate or any less harmful in my opinion. Christmas is really a holiday celebrating the western civilisation, thats what it is, more than anything else. And as such appropriately its based entirely on lie upon lie, fabrication upon fabrication, and on the complete mutilation of historical and prophetic reality.
Christmas is about upholding the foundational false narrative of the West. A narrative that has been responsible of the spilling of oceans of bloods. In reality Christmas is a holiday celebrating the triumph of Jesus's enemies who succeded in corrupting his message and his mission-->
Not to mention the lie about his date of birth, and they keep celebrating a festival that Jesus himself would have prohibited.
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Nothing to disagree with here!
Thing is, Christmas has fallen victim to the demands of capitalism!
And sadly, the moment Hallmark Cards saw the profit potential of Kwanzaa, the celebration started losing its spiritual meaning!
I remember attending very private & tight knit Kwanzaa gatherings in Harlem & Brooklyn in the mid-90s, and how uplifting the experience was; then Kwanzaa critics, like Henry Louis Gates, started writing opinion pieces putting down the celebration. Ever since, part of the celebration started losing its appeal. Also, the growing commercialism of Kwanzaa became a turn off to many.
One positive development: in terms of ancient Black Hebrew roots, its no longer a taboo subject as social media - including YouTube, TikTok etc - continue to give voice to those exposing such suppressed bits of history. Let's see how long the power elites are gonna tolerate or allow such discussions. The truth is an offense to some.