You have to celebrate Christmas. It's not just enough to believe that this child born of a virgin was the logos from before the ages, right? We can say we believe that or we want to. But if we don't act on that information in some way, And the way that you act on this information, Taylor

referred, talks about liturgy and like, let's say, you talked about the feast, the act of celebration

as being like a song, right? So the song has a melody, like a, think of like a little melody,

has sequential moments, you know, all these different notes and everything. But really, the beginning

to the end of that song all happened in the same moment because

it's a unit.

So if you don't sing the song, then you're not actually, you have no way of participating

in that moment.

And if you don't celebrate Christmas, then the moment, this holy moment, right, this

moment with heaven and earth, everything comes together into this point, right?

That moment just passes you by and and pretty soon, you stop believing at all.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

So hello, I am back here with Richard Rowland for another episode of Universal History.

As all of you know, Richard and I wrapped up a major course on Beowulf where Richard took us

through very convincingly why Baywolf is a Christian poem. And if you watch it, you'll see at the end,

I myself have a like a mouth agape like you'll see at the end, I myself have a like a mouth

agape like he just, at the end, there's no doubt. It's just like all comes together. It's very

beautiful. So, so you can still check that out. By the way, if you're interested, the,

the course is going to stay on for sale on the website, so you can check that out. But today,

we are going to talk about

Christmas, about how Christmas came together as a piece in the church, why it's so important,

you know, why we celebrate Christmas the way we do today. And so it's going to be a great

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