Welcome to Politics by Faith.

Thanks for being here. It is October 31st.

So it is time for my annual lament about the holiday season and what the holidays have become in our secular pagan country.

All of the holy days that we have on our calendar used to be, I should say to

all of our holidays that we still have on our calendar used to be holy days. It's a better way of

putting it. Thanksgiving started off as a day of prayer and fasting. Fasting. Thanksgiving used to be a day of not eating. And now it's a day of

football and gluttony. Christmas was about the birth of Jesus. Now it's Santa and presents.

Easter was about the resurrection of Jesus. Now it's an Easter bunny and eggs.

St. Patrick's Day even.

It was a day.

Patrick was this guy.

He was born in England.

It's not even an Irish.

And he was abducted and he was put on a slave ship to Ireland and he spent six years there.

And then he escaped to his home country spent six years there, six years there,

and then he escaped to his home country, became a Christian, went back to the people who

enslaved him to spread the gospel to these lost people. And now it's drink green beer and pinch me.

I was like, this hit me, I think it was like five years ago. It was not Halloween. I've never really

liked Halloween. But it was like five years ago. It was not Halloween. I've never really liked Halloween.

But it was like especially meaningless.

Whatever shred of meaning there even was.

And I was like, this is really, like, what is this?

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