Merry Christmas!

Posted December 24, 2008, 12:30 a.m.

As you are no-doubt aware, Christians worldwide celebrate Christmas tomorrow (December 25). Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, who has had more impact on humanity over the last ~2,000 years than all other men, governments, and movements combined. This is not a time for mindless consumerism. Christmas is when we should spend time with our families, spend time in worship, and celebrate the momentous arrival of the Son of God.

It is important that Christians reclaim this holiday from the secularized monstrosity it has become.

Later today, Melissa and I will be traveling to visit our family in southern Virginia for Christmas, and as we celebrate this holiday I will likely be a bit lax in posting on the site but will be back in time to ring in the new year. I wish all of you safe travels, and a Merry Christmas (or, for my Jewish friends, an ongoing Happy Hanukkah). God bless you, and please remember what we’re celebrating!

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

I’d have no desire to penalize a man because he’s worth only fifteen dollars a week. But I’ll be damned if I can see why a man worth forty must be penalized—and penalized in favor of the one who’s less competent.

Not the perversities of others, not their sins of commission or omission, but his own misdeeds and negligences should a sage take notice of.

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death.

One of the things that has constantly amazed me is the delight that decent people take in the ability to provide opportunities to those over whom they currently exercise authority.

I die the king’s faithful servant, and God’s first.

The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable, and God has willed them to be knowable, even in the absence of strong emotion or apparent miracles.

Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

But, as a fact, men have almost always suffered under new tyrannies . . . that had been public liberties hardly twenty years before.

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

There is no such thing as success in a bad business.

Communism, in particular, was attractive not so much to oppressed workers, its hypothetical beneficiaries, but to intellectuals—to those whose arrogant pride in intellect assured them they were always right.

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.

A free Press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that freemen prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.

If the people are stupid, they can be easily governed.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

The strange American ardor for passing laws, the insane belief in regulation and punishment, plays into the hands of the reformers, most of them quacks themselves. Their efforts, even when honest, seldom accomplish any appreciable good.

There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed.

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