Ep 430 – Matt’s Christmas Story: Putting the Jesus back in X-Mas

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Matt shares a recording that he made with his family on Christmas eve, where he discusses his recent rediscovery the value of Jesus.

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0:00.0	This is Infants on Thrones.
0:04.0	Minnesot.
0:05.0	Minnesot.
0:06.0	Yay!
0:07.0	Yay!
0:10.0	A... I really like Christmas. It's sentimental I know but I just really like it
0:28.0	Hey everybody this is Matt and on this episode I wanted to share with you the Christmas story I told my family.
0:35.8	And from my family to yours, we wish you a Merry Christmas, a happy holidays, and
0:41.9	rebirth and resurrection in the new year.
0:45.0	And yes I have all of the usual objections to consumerism to the commercialization of an ancient religion
0:56.6	to the Westernization of a dead Palestinian press ganged into selling playstations and beer.
1:09.0	But I still really like him. I'm looking forward to Christmas though I'm not expecting a visit from Jesus. I'll be seeing my dad.
1:36.0	My brother and sisters, my grand and my mom,
1:41.0	they'll be drinking white wine in the sun.
1:45.0	I'll be seeing my dad,
1:49.0	my brother and sisters, my grand and my mom
1:55.0	They'll be drinking white wine in the sun Mom and I've been going through a little bit of the journey here we want to let you know about.
2:11.0	Christmas time is an appropriate time to do it.
2:13.2	Because Jesus was someone that was very important to me. I had a particular
2:20.0	understanding of what Jesus was and it always inspired me and I love that part
2:26.5	about Christmas and I feel like I've taken that from you guys since we left the
2:31.1	church and our atheist and I've had a different shift in my perspective and it's really helped me out and I think it'll help you guys out too.
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