The Wide, Wide World of Walmart

Walmart is a world wide organization and must remain conscious of this. The majority of the world still has different practices other than "christmas" which is an ancient tradition that has its roots in Siberian shamanism. The colors associated with "christmas" red and white are actually a representation of of the aminita mascera mushroom. Santa is also borrowed from the Caucuses, mistletoe from the Celts, yule log from the Goths, the time from the Visigoth and the tree from the worship of Baal. It is a wide wide world.

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Oh, all right, the devil made me do it. My headline wrote itself, and was too good not to share. But somebody at Walmart has evidently read Santa Was a Shaman (and so should you, if you haven't), though he evidently knows as little of mycology as he does of public relations. So Christians are boycotting Walmart for Christmas. I am more impressed by Christians who boycott Christmas. Or who celebrate their religious holiday on another calendar.

Lord of the World

And now it was come to this. Christianity had smouldered away from Europe like a sunset on darkening peaks; Eternal Rome was a heap of ruins; in East and West alike a man had been set upon the throne of God, had been acclaimed as divine. The world had leaped forward; social science was supreme; men had learned consistency; they had learned, too, the social lessons of Christianity apart from a Divine Teacher, or, rather, they said, in spite of Him. There were left, perhaps, three millions, perhaps five, at the utmost ten millions -- it was impossible to know -- throughout the entire inhabited globe who still worshipped Jesus Christ as God. And the Vicar of Christ sat in a whitewashed room in Nazareth, dressed as simply as His master, waiting for the end.

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Another e-book, a very long text file of another of Robert Hugh Benson's future histories, this one earlier than The Dawn of All, which I gave you a couple of days ago, and rather less sanguine about the historical fate of his religion. This is premillennial adventism as surely as the other was postmillennial. I find it fascinating that Benson, an Anglican turned Catholic, should have been so able to envision either with equal facility.

Bensoniana

No, not the Benson who worked for the Governor. Or the one they named Bensonhurst after. The one I was linking to e-texts by.

Well, I now see the two novels of the (then) future I sent you off in search of are in print, along with some of his historical novels and (yes!) horror stories: http://www.benson-unabridged.com/

Enjoy

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