Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plotcast.

This week, Doug talks about Christmas.

And I wanted to make sure you knew that Doug has a book on Christmas

traditions can appear to dull the powerful

the repetition of Christmas traditions can appear to dull the powerful nature of the holiday.

God resty Mary is meant to rekindle the Christians

understanding of Advent on every front. From politics to shopping to uproarious

celebration. You can find Douglas Wilson's God rest you Mary at canon press.com or better. You can find it

read by Toby Sumter on the Canon app. Yes, God, God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast.

This is episode 171, 171. So I want to talk a little bit, that we're coming up on Christmas

now, right? We're in the Advent season. And so I want to talk a little bit about something that comes up pretty regularly in conservative

Christian circles and that is the problem of the origins of Christmas.

There are some Christians who reject celebrations of Christmas because of its pagan origins,

and there are others that reject it because of its popish origins. So some are very decided

Christians and they don't want to have anything to do with paganism and others are

very decided Protestants and they don't want to have anything to do with Christ,

mass. So how do you answer the person who says, well that Christmas tree and

that mistletoe and that, you know, that you'll'll log all of those things used to be

pagan customs how do you reply to that well I my reply is pretty straightforward I think

it's perfectly all right to celebrate a holiday that used to be a pagan holiday

because we used to be pagans. There you go. It doesn't bother me at all to meet somebody, make an appointment with somebody on Monday, even though that's

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