DURING my years with the evangelical church, I’d be one bemoaning that ‘Jesus has been taken out of Christmas’ around this time of year.

The constant commercialism, manic behaviour to buy largely unwanted presents and the party season (less in fashion in these strange days) is indeed totally at odds with the image of a baby in a manger born to ‘save the world’.

Yet there is another side to this. As with so many other areas of life, ‘churchianity’, a far more appropriate title than ‘Christianity’, has usurped the winter festival rather than the other way round.

Our modern day ‘Christmas’ is a religious makeover of the Roman festival of Saturnalia.

Research Saturnalia for yourselves and you’ll find it includes everything we associated today with Christmas minus the Jesus story.

In short, Saturnalia is a time for eating, drinking and getting merry, giving and receiving presents and getting naked and going wild in the streets (oh how we miss those office Christmas parties!).

But anyone who has given the subject a thought shouldn’t be too surprised that ‘churchianity’ offers nothing but a new layer to what has always existed throughout history through Paganism,

‘Christian’ festivals took over Pagan events, ‘Churches’ were built on Pagan sites, the religious hierarchy replaced Pagan leaders – and it did so whilst demonising the original. Even the story of ‘virgin birth’, ‘the three wise men’ and death and resurrection after three days all have Pagan roots.

Ask a convinced ‘Christian’, the ‘born again’ variety rather than the pious churchgoer, and they’ll parrot their beliefs – my beliefs at one time – that all Paganism is evil, the works of sinful man and the devil.

No, it’s not!

‘Churchianity’ is based on the false belief – one that ensures its power within this world – that mankind doesn’t perform sinful acts and needs salvation but is, per se, sinful.

Untrue.

Can you imagine the injustice of being judged for all the wrong behaviours of anyone in your family?

You wouldn’t do it and nor would anyone with a sense of justice.

And so, removing ourselves from the influence of Rome which produced our modern scriptures and the doctrine of original sin, we see that we are born with the capacity to both do positive and negative actions.

The divide between ‘good’ and what we term ‘evil’ is not our belie system but our intention.

if our intention is to do good, our actions are good. If our intentions are to harm, our actions are evil.

This means that even if we are deceived into doing something our hands are clean as long if we had a positive aim.

The prayers of a ‘Churchian’ are of the same value as the positive thoughts of a ‘witch’

And negative prayers carry the same power as a curse.

It’s time to open our eyes and realise how far we have been played and controlled by Rome which continues to be ‘anti Christ’ to this day.