The Morning Rant - Merry Christmas

I really liked CBD's rant about Christmas that he posted last week.

The fact is that Christianity has been a huge driver of Western political philosophy, and is indispensable to the cause of freedom. And spare me your sanctimonious lectures about religion being responsible for so much death and destruction in human history...

Screw you...I'll take Christianity, with all of its warts, any day. And don''t forget that much of the glory of Western art and music was financed by the Church, or created to express religious themes.

So here is another example of how Christian faith has inspired some great art. My daughter, who graduated with a degree in music, told me that in order to understand and appreciate all that is going on in the development of Western music, you also need to understand what was going on Church history during that time. The two are so intertwined, they are virtually inseperable.

That said, I've always liked the Medieval Baebes vocal group, they have voices like angels, and this song about Christ's incarnation is one of my favorites. Merry Christmas to all of the Horde!

What A Heart-Warming Christmas Story:

It only takes a moment to show a veteran how much you appreciate their sacrifice. Our flight is overbooked and there’s a WWII veteran here. I can’t leave him stranded during Christmas so I just offered him my wife’s seat on the plane.

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) December 23, 2019

God Bless Texas

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posted by OregonMuse at 11:30 AM

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