Christmas is a time to reflect on why that Baby came.

For two thousand years now Christians have celebrated Christmas and announced Peace on Earth and goodwill to those of 'good will'.    We have proclaimed that Christ will reign and better things are ahead.  During that period however all that has happened is that mankind has found more efficient ways of killing and fighting one another.    The bow and arrow and the sword made way for guns, machine guns, and eventually the Atom Bomb.   Institutions set up to forward the cause of peace are taken over by those who believe that peace is established if everyone does what they are told which means of course that they are right and objectors should be silenced.  As objective morality is replaced by subjective ideology, the rights of people to speak out is more and more denied by the establishment.   This builds up resentment among ordinary people who are neither left nor right but have to be labelled as such for the sake of the advancement of that ideology.    So we have people being divided by the very people who cry out for unity.  As one politician put it to a rape victim "You must keep quiet for the sake of diversity"

So why has this 'Peace on Earth" been such a failure?   It was G.K. Chesterton who once remarked "The trouble with Christianity is that it has still to be tried"  From the very beginning there have been scholars and thinkers who decided the Church and her Teaching was wrong.   That they knew better and started forming their own Churches professing to be that of Jesus Christ, although they often contradicted Christ on sexual morality, marriage and divorce, and refused to accept the teachings of Jesus in the Gosels although clinging to the Gospels as though they were the faithful ones.    "Let everyone be subject to a higher power, he who resists the power resists the ordinance of God and he who resists purchases for himself damnation".    But no Paul, the Church is wrong, the Church should be about me.   I find it strange that those who called out it is an 'us' Church were more drawn to what they wanted.

So let us all this Christmas think about two thousand years of heresies, disagreements, I now best, I will follow my conscience.    In such a Church could there ever be "Peace on Earth?".





















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