As always happens in the run-up to Christmas, we have to endure grotesque and fanciful speculation about the so-called “real date” of Christ’s birth, written to make matters worse in inept prose by currinches who use Grok to write their nonsense. … According to these grotesque speculations, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, the Church deliberately moved its holiday to coincide with a pagan celebration honoring the winter solstice. In this way, the Church would have skillfully taken advantage of a pagan religious habit so that the new imposed festival entered with vaseline into the consciousness of Roman citizens, without provoking resistance.
These birrias of the currinches are the sinister traces of a theological drift that began with the Reformation, which introduced the poison of decomposition into biblical exegesis, by proclaiming the doctrine of “free examination”, linked to the principle of “Sola Scriptura”. As the great Leonardo Castellani declared with his characteristic wit, “ever since Luther assured every reader of the Bible of the assistance of the Holy Spirit, this person of the Holy Trinity has begun to say terrible things.” The Lutheran Free Examination in effect unleashed the disease of intelligence called dilettantism, which then infected, by a virulent process of metastasis, the whole of Western culture, first with the appearance of stupid intellectual deification, then with the pitiful rags of the desire to know without studying and the arrogance of ignorance, which we finally discover in these gross journalistic absurdities published at Christmas. In the past at least, the efforts of rationalist criticism to destroy the faith of believers, even if they gave rise to speculations as grotesque as they were fanciful, contained a great fanciful display of “ant scholarship”; and, above all, they did it with calculated malice and softened hatred, so that the believer, when reading them, did not think that they were attacking Christianity and allowed himself to be infiltrated by their Suavon perfidies, who killed their faith with a kiss, like Judas. This rationalist criticism stripped the Gospel of everything that was supposed to be useless dressing, legendary trash, until it managed to open a fissure between the so-called “historical Jesus” and the “Christ of faith”. Thus, the figure of the “Christ of faith” became more and more nebulous, unrecognizable and inexplicable; and the most erudite and bizarre reconstructions of the “historical Jesus” presented him as a revolutionary who fights established powers, or as a benevolent moralist who preaches an all-approving global love, or as a healer with Zoroastrian knowledge.
In the Gospel of Luke, we read that the angel Gabriel, in announcing to Mary that she is going to become the mother of Jesus, tells her that her cousin Elizabeth is six months pregnant; and Elizabeth’s pregnancy occurs while her husband Zechariah is officiating in the temple. Zechariah was part of “Abijah’s team,” one of twenty-four priestly castes organized in immutable order who, in addition to common services in the temple, were each assigned to serve for a week twice a year. One of these two weeks which corresponded to the turn of Abijah, according to the specialists of the Qumram manuscripts, would correspond to what our calendar places in the last week of September, where the conception of Saint John would have taken place. This would explain why the Conception of Jesus is celebrated in the last week of March (six months before, the six months when Elizabeth was pregnant at the Annunciation), that the birth of Saint John is celebrated in the last week of June (nine months after the appearance of the angel to Zechariah) and that Christmas is celebrated in the last week of December. I don’t know if these Qumram scroll experts are right; What is evident is that the alignment of the festivities of the Incarnation, the nativity of Saint John the Baptist and the nativity of Jesus is not arbitrary, but rather obeys knowledge passed down from generation to generation. A Tradition (“I give you what I have received”) which is for the believer a source of faith, like Revelation itself.
In the journalistic nonsense published these days, claiming that Christ was actually born at another time of the year, it is still claimed that, according to the Gospel account, near the cave where Jesus was born there were shepherds – to whom the angel appears and “the glory of the Lord is surrounded with brightness” – who took care of their sheep in the open air, which would be impossible in mid-December, unless they wanted to catch pneumonia and frostbite. my father and lord. But the truth is that the Gospels are primarily a record of supernatural events; And if the death of Christ caused the sky to darken, the earth to shake, and the veil of the temple to be torn, the tombs to open, and many deceased saints to rise to life, it seems modest in comparison that the birth of Christ provided, even in Bethlehem, a peaceful, warm night that allowed the shepherds to spend it outside, awash in the glory of God. I find it wonderful that furious atheists do not want to believe that the death or birth of Christ causes phenomena inexplicable according to physical laws; But then it would be enough for them to say that the Gospels are a fable, and to stop the scientific nonsense and boring scholarship. Of course, the great rationalistic effort of impiety, in its desire to destroy the Gospel, has in the past been a determining factor in the present confusion and apostasy; But those who today believe in the absurdities of the inept prose streams surrounding the so-called “real date” of Christ’s birth must necessarily be the moronic masses. Merry Christmas to the three or four readers who still support me.
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