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Throwing off the chains of tyranny

Happy Independence weekend! This time of celebration deserves prayers and praises to God because we are in the process of throwing off the chains of tyranny.

Think of what we experienced in the past four years. Americans have been through a worldwide pandemic, unconstitutional lockdowns, masks, coerced covid vaccinations, the summer of love, taking a knee, J6 political prisoners, transgender madness, drag queen story hour, a stolen presidential election, record inflation, and skyrocketing crime and homelessness in our once great big cities.

Democrats Chuck Schumer (L) and Nancy Pelosi (R) taking a knee in solidarity with the Marxist Black Lives Matter Movement

Where were the political leaders willing to fight for us?There was no one of significance, save for President Donald Trump.

President Trump returning from an Iowa Rally celebrating the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill July 3, 2025

The only man in the past eight years who put Americans first was under constant assault from a corrupt ruling class headed by the puppet President Joe Biden. They tried to embarrass him, bankrupt him, imprison him. When that all failed, they tried to kill him.

Mugshot of President Donald Trump August 24, 2023

However, their efforts backfired. Instead of demonizing Trump a he became a cause celebre, gaining the attention of Democrat blacks, Hispanics and moderate whites. These rational people saw through the witch-hunts and the Kangaroo courts and began to ask ,”Why is there so much opposition against this man?”

Americans listened to the character assassination of Trump as a Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini and questioned. They saw no concentration camps, gulags, brown shirts or political imprisonments under this man’s presidency, unlike the murderous dictators the propaganda media kept comparing him to.

What Americans saw playing out was a crucial link in the chains of tyranny. It wasn’t enough the wicked authoritarians wanted to break our spirit, they tried to destroy the one inspirational figure to the patriotic people of the country.

They tried and failed. In fact, the tyrants of the left and the deep state shot the proverbial wad. In trying to eliminate Trump , they created an almost mythological figure. The image of him rising ,wounded with his fist in the air and yelling to “Fight, fight, fight!” is indelible.

Trump defiant after assassination attempt in Butler, PA Sept. 13,2024

Patriots know he’s only a man, but they also know God appoints certain people for the times. Trump is the man for these times of righting the American ship. MAGA loves Trump because they know he genuinely loves the people of this country.

That’s the difference between a hack politician and genuine statesman. Oh yes, Trump is a statesman along the lines of the Founding Fathers.

“Seriously Dex, you’re comparing Bad Orange Man to George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson?” Yes I am. Like these great men, Trump is a transformative figure, unmotivated by political expediency. His focus does not seem to be himself, but instead, the freedom, prosperity and security of the American people.

Like the Founders, he also risked everything, including his life, fortune and sacred honor.

In many ways he symbolizes all we’ve overcome in these last four years, which makes Trump’s re-election such an historical landmark. He is the living embodiment of that American tenacity that never quits, despite overwhelming odds.

I don’t know about you , but this was the first Independence Day in five years where peace, not worry, was my first thought about the direction of America.

How appropriate President Trump is heading the nation as it begins the year long celebration leading to its 250th birthday. Throwing off the chains of tyranny symbolized this nation at its founding and now. Happy Independence weekend!

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How far we have fallen

How many times a week do comment to yourself, or others, how far we have fallen as a society? Perhaps this observation is a daily occurrence?

While stopped at an intersection one recent early evening, I noted a lone man in the crosswalk wearing a covid mask. I repeat: he was alone and wearing a mask! Cue head shaking and eyes rolling.

Then, someone sends me this tweet a few days later, ” BRADY BUNCH FAMILY GETS THE MEASLES IN 1969.” Boy, is this video on point. Watch:

What a difference half a century makes. Certainly, there were no such things as safe-spaces or trigger warnings because the culture was, predominantly, mentally tougher 55 years ago.

What caused this change from a culture laughing off once common illnesses, to people now scared for their lives the moment someone coughs or sneezes? I believe it’s America collectively losing the fear of God. I commented on this in my book American Christian: A Treatise of Spiritual, Cultural and Political Discernment. From the chapter titled, “On the Fear of the Lord,”:

“The West has reached the point where it has normalized pathological fear. Perhaps my statement could be construed as over-the-top, but you have only to reflect upon the culture’s obsessive fright over germs (what used to be seasonal maladies, such as the common cold or the flu) to see its accuracy. Fear has crossed from the reasonable to the irrational for an ever-growing number of Americans.” (Bahr, 2023. pg 23-24)

Fear of the Lord does not mean worrying if or when God will smite or punish you for some reason. Scripture actually tells us the fear of the Lord in the beginning of wisdom and, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Proverbs 9:10).

If the fear of the Lord (whether in reverence, awe, or dread) is the beginning of wisdom, therefore, no fear of the Lord results in folly, stupidity or irrationality; take your pick.

The Brady Bunch clip featured in this piece came from a time when Americans predominately feared God. The Law and Order: SVU clip , replete with dramatic pearl-clutching doom -and-gloom is from our “enlightened” (sarc) modern times.

Need I say more?

My, how far we have fallen.

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Reference

Bahr, Dex. (2023)American Christian: A Treatise of Spiritual, Cultural and Political Discernment. https://www.amazon.com/American-Christian-Spiritual-Political-Discernment-ebook/dp

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Thank God for President Trump

Thank God for President Trump. If you study history, there’s no doubt God appoints all leaders for specific times . (Daniel 2:21, NKJV). These are men and women, equipped with certain skillsets, strengths and even weaknesses for God’s will and purposes.

Can you imagine just how terrible things would be right now if Kamala Harris won the presidency and the clowns sitting on their hands at President Trump’s Joint Speech to Congress were in absolute power?
We’d be done as a nation: plain and simple.

Think about the nearly mortal wounds inflicted on this country under the Biden Presidency. From the wide-open southern border, runaway inflation, rising energy prices, to President Biden demonizing half the country as extremists : metaphorically speaking, every day was another cut, gradually sapping our life away.

The Age of Nonsense, that was the Biden era. An apt term– what with the media’s and government’s obsession of convincing us two plus two equals five. If this term is unfamiliar you can read it’s about it here.

Remember these Orwellian examples of two plus two equal five? America is a nation of immigrants, therefore we must have a wide-open border. The covid lockdowns kept us safe by isolating us from loved ones /friends , decimating intellectual/social milestones for children and nearly destroying the economy. Transgendered men competing in women’s sports or accessing women’s bathrooms is perfectly normal.

Biden’s satanic minions slandered us as evil, racist, misogynist, transphobic, xenophobic, bigots, because we rejected their warped moral arithmetic. They tried to bully us into standing down against their wicked morality

However, all their efforts to break us backfired. How did this happen?

One thing about Dems, overkill consumes them when it comes to their enemies. Their efforts to destroy President Trump, whether through corrupt show trials, an FBI raid of his Mar -A- Lago home, and two assassination attempts exemplified this bloodlust.

A “bipartisan” and crooked unselect January 6 committee was the Deep State’s effort to make a Trump conviction nice and legal-like. Under the guise of saving democracy, the pulled out the stops to brand Trump an insurrectionist . That included possible witness tampering and the destruction of any evidence exonerating Trump.

Except, the opposite happened. Americans saw this onslaught on one man and it re-awakened in them an instinctual revulsion of tyranny.

Oh yeah, the nation got red-pilled.

Not Trump’s base, they never abandoned him. However, once solid Dem constituencies such as black men and latinos broke free of the Democrat matrix. A reality check was happening.

For years these black and brown communities protested abuse at the hands of the law. Now they were seeing that play out against the orange man who the media characterized as a racist. Something didn’t compute , hence the red-pilling of these constituencies.

They noted the abuse of the law against Trump and said to themselves, “Trump may have posted mean tweets, but my bank account was bigger when he was President. Food /utilities were definitely cheaper , America was energy independent and we were respected in the world. Biden reversed all of this.”

And so ushered in this golden era of Common Sense, dismaying the Dems. Through this new lens, former Dem supporters now a see a political party losing their minds over the lawful deportation of murderous illegal-alien gang-bangers and willing to die on the hill of transgenderism.

I recently wrote of the Dems as the real party of hate. Their Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) has unmasked their loathing of America and this vitriol is literally driving them mad.

God is exposing them for all to see through their TDS. All I can say is, thank God for President Trump.

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Preach Christ

And he said to them,” Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. Mark 15-16.

Our primary Christian duty is to carry out the Great Commission. We are to call people to repentance and salvation by preaching Christ to the world. We are to preach Christ, crucified and resurrected.

Jesus did not come into the temporal, fully man and fully God to make the world a better place through peace and unity. You wouldn’t know that based on the shaky doctrine taught in most mainstream denominations , but the Bible backs this up.

“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to ‘set[a] a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’–Matthew 10:34-36 (NKJV)

Preaching Christ means not only rejection from the world, but also from one’s own family members. The problem is the world is in darkness and hates the light.

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”– John 3:19-21

Christians reflect the light of Jesus when they seek Him with all heart, mind and strength . We become a beacon in a world of darkness.

Satan has annexed many former houses of worship into his kingdom.. You can tell these places because there is no fear of God and therefore, no wisdom (Proverbs 9:10). These churches ignore the authority of Scripture, picking and choosing verses to fit their agenda. They don’t preach repentance and salvation, but instead, prosperity, or being the best person you can be. The Apostle Paul warned of these times in 2 Timothy 4:3-4:

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

False doctrine are ideas adding to, reducing , perverting or nullifying God’s Word. False teachers deviate from scripture, denying Holy truths about God and leading the deceived from Christ, to hell.

But the lost sinner does not know this. Their rationale for seeking a church is a place with nice people, a positive message, and convenience. They hear, without discernment, the sermon of the liberal male, female or gay pastor telling them sin is merely a state of mind and that Christ welcomes everyone.

Lies like those, are why God-fearing Christians must be vigorous and unyielding in our testimony about the one true Christ. Sinners must hear why God sent Jesus to ransom them from Satan’s bondage.

Telling the truth in a time of widespread deception is the ultimate rebellion; but so be it. As Christians we are in , but not of the world (John 15:18-19), therefore, we must preach Christ whenever the Holy Spirit prompts us.

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Trump’s inaugural speech: “Liberation Day”

“January 20, 2025 is Liberation day” an awesome line from President Trump’s liberating second inaugural speech. Trump’s sincere earnestness and the lack of empty platitudes was a standout.

Video cued to 8:09 , but watch the speech in its entirety.

As President Trump laid out the challenges Americans face, due the abject failure of the Biden Administration, I could not help but think of the level of damage done.

If anyone’s suited for this mission it’s Donald J. Trump. I believe God has appointed him for this very task.

We must cover President Trump with our prayers daily.

Do not become slack. The greatness of this country rests in God-fearing people, not in a single president. Our job is to pray in Jesus’ name for our leaders, families, neighbors and for the United States of America.

God willing, we have four years to get this right so JD Vance can continue for another two terms and his vice president for another eight years after.

What are your thoughts on the speech?

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The eve of a new golden age

Remember as a kid that excitement for Christmas? That’s describes the night before Donald Trump’s inauguration: the eve of a new golden age.

The long nightmare of the Joe Biden Presidency ends tomorrow, January 20th, when President Trump places his hand on the Bible for the second time as the 47th President of the United States. Unlike his predecessor, he will sincerely carry out the text of the oath of office listed below:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

We heard a lot about “democracy” during the last four years, but nothing about the Constitution of the United States. Biden and the Democrats did little to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, choosing , instead, to make a mockery of our founding document.

Who can forget the Covid lockdowns, the intentional opening of the southern border and the weaponization of the Department of Justice against Trump, just to name a few Biden infamies?

I don’t wish want to recount all the unconstitutional actions of the worst administration in the history of the modern era ( if not the history of the United States). Let’s focus on what we’ve achieved.

You made history on November 5. You rose to the occasion and took back the country at the ballot box. In doing so, you destroyed the legacy media and made the Democrat Party the weakest it has been in a generation.

Freedom prevailed because it’s inherent in our DNA. Patriotic Americans are wired to hate bullies and dictators, which is what the Democrat Party has become.

The horror of Biden’s tenure red-pilled millions of Americas, awaking them from their apathetic stupor. What’s been the result? The realization that it’s not only Democrats destroying America, but also RINOs, both forming a Uniparty.

The lightning rod for all of this exposure has been none other than President Trump.

Trump is that rare figure in history who inspires others through courage, love of country and blunt honesty. Witnessing the full weight of government thrown against this man ,via an FBI a raid on his home, Soviet style show-trials, a mugshot, and two assassination attempts, rekindled the fire natural in the hearts of patriots: a visceral hatred of injustice.

The Biden Administration is loathed because of its embrace of lawlessness. However, I thank God for the tyranny of these past four years.

Trump re-enters office more popular than ever because of his winning both the electoral college and popular vote. Unlike 2016, he has an unequivocal mandate to Make America Great Again.

Like Ronald Reagan and George Washington , Trump is the people’s President. Uninterested in power, he’s a man taking office for love of country and the rule of law.

Citizens like you and me lifted up their prayers for God’s blessing and protection over this man. The Good Lord answered because no weapon forged against Trump prevailed. Every corrupt and evil scheme backfired against the Uniparty, strengthening Trump and weakening them, instead.

May we continue to pray, in the name of Jesus Christ, for God’s peace and protection over President Trump, his family , his administration and this nation. Prayer works and is desperately needed for this country. Because of God’s grace and mercy, we are on the eve of new golden age for America.

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Fires of judgment

Behold, they shall be as stubble,
The fire shall burn them;
They shall not deliver themselves
From the power of the flame;
It shall not be a coal to be warmed by,
Nor a fire to sit before!– Isaiah 47:14 (NKJV)

The fires of judgment continue to rage in Southern California. Besides apocalyptic level destruction and death, the blaze is revealing the incompetence of leadership on the state and local level.

Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, you two are an absolute disgrace. You have failed your state , your city and every constituent affected by these wildfires.

You can both try to blame this devastation on climate change all you want, but even liberals’ eyes are now opening to the fecklessness of Democrat rule in California. Both of you are profiles in failure.

What’s been Newsom’s mission of late? Oh yeah, Trump-proofing California.

Hey governor, how about placing the same effort into fire-proofing burn areas? You know, like ,creating task forces to clear the brush and undergrowth. Additionally, you could have issued public service announcements highlighting of the importance of homeowners fire-proofing their properties.

Imagine if you did those things and came up with innovations for storing the millions of cubic feet of water from snowmelt and rain-runoff instead of letting it flow to the ocean? Instead you serve your globalist, environmentalist masters by diverting water from the people, farmers and cities; all this, supposedly, for saving some bait-fish known as the Delta Smelt .

Yeah, prior to California’s most devastating wildfire, I’m sure many of those very rich (and liberal) homeowners in Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Altadena, Hollywood and Calabasas , unquestioningly believed your BS about Trump being the biggest existential threat to California and America.

But I got news for you, governor. I’m willing to bet that after losing everything they’re going to look at you , your policies and every syllable you say in an entirely different light. We’re talking red-pilling.

Under your watch, California has worsened as a state. Homelessness is rampant, crime is skyrocketing, people and businesses (that is taxpayers ) are leaving the state in droves.

Actually, I stand corrected, Newsom. One business your policies have benefitted is U-haul which has had record profits thanks to people getting the hell out of California.

Which brings me to Mayor Bass , what on earth were you doing in Africa as your city burned? You should have been on the first jet back to California when you got word of the potential seriousness of these Santa Ana winds and the fire danger they posed.

When you finally returned after the initial devastation, it was deer in headlights as you then refused to answer a reporter’s questions regarding your competence?!

Mayor, your primary responsibility is to provide leadership, which means the buck stops with you. That’s your job!

How ironic those Pacific Palisades fire hydrants will become symbolic of yours and Newsom’s leadership: empty. But what else can we expect from leaders focused on DEI rather than taxpayers?

DEI breeds incompetence because when any of these ideologues are elected to leadership, it’s due to identity , not ability.

LA City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley’ made history being the first female and LGBTQ Fire Chief. But was her first leadership challenge ensuring the reservoirs were filled so fire hydrants can work? No it was increasing diversity in the LA City Fire Department by hiring more women.

Bass is the first black female ever elected mayor, yet she recently slashed the fire department’s budget by nearly $20 million, prioritizing the homeless. And of course, Pacific Palisades hydrants went dry under the watch of Janisse Quinones, the first Latina to lead the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP).

As of this writing, the fires of judgment continue as tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, thousands of structures destroyed and at least 10 people dead. Winds are forecasted to continue off and on through the weekend.

Pray for California and pray God will use these fires to burn the scales from people’s eyes regarding the state’s dangerously inept Democrat leadership.

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Happy New Year and thank You

Happy New Year and thank you. As we begin 2025, I would like to express a heartfelt and sincere thank you for your support of the Discerning Pundit.

Thank you for reading and sharing these columns. It is much appreciated.

To say 2024 has been a whirlwind year is an understatement. With all that has occurred, from the Presidential campaign, to the two assassination attempts against President Trump, to the elation of an election night win, the holiday spirit has, strangely, been the last thing on my mind.

But thank God, Jesus is the source of our joy, and that our Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers. Praise the Lord a majority of Americans re-elected President Trump in a landslide for a total and complete victory.

While God answered prayer, keeping Trump safe and this country from collapsing –despite the best efforts of the Biden Administration-I can’t help thinking the real work is beginning.

America is on the ropes and without a shared Christian moral foundation, too many people are easily seduced by lies and fables. Why else do you think woke, DEI and even the plandemic were able to gain prominence?

Christians must dedicate unceasing prayer for America, Congress, the Supreme Court, the Trump Administration, governors , mayors , legislatures and city councils. On another level, Christians must also launch imprecatory prayers against wicked policies on both sides of the aisle and the puppet masters pulling the strings behind the scenes.

Washington was not only built on a swamp, its environment and politics is a swamp of corruption and waste.

As Trump now sees Washington and politicians in a different light than during his first term, we must also view things from a new paradigm.

First, we no longer have the luxury of complacency. The days of farming out our liberty to politicians , whether “D” or “R” , are over.

Here’s a word to memorize: scrutiny. It means a close watch or examination. This is a word we must always associate with politicians from now and forever.

You might understand it better as paying attention to how these hacks vote, rather than falling for what they say. We must figuratively grab their feet and hold it to the fire.

Before you dismiss me for spouting a cliche, keep in mind this is from a Christian perspective. When talking about fire, I’m speaking of God spiritually burning away every deception keeping us from the truth.

That’s the job of this blog: commenting on current events using a Biblical perspective. My mission is helping you discern truth from deception.

So happy New Year and thank you for your support. May 2025 be the year you take your prayer and study of Scripture to an entirely new level.

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Congratulations, we broke the woke

Congratulations, we broke the woke. On Election Day 2024, you, me and more than half of America said no more to woke politics.

We first started the death by a thousand cuts by refusing to support their propaganda spewing movies and tv shows where their message had the subtlety of breaking wind. Then, we drove a stake in the heart of this Marxist ideology with the re-election of President Donald Trump.

I’m no prophet, just a concerned patriot typing out these columns on a laptop in his kitchen, but yours truly predicted the beginning of the end of wokeness in this column from January 28, 2023:

You can try to force woke politics down people throats as entertainment, but the public will always speak with their wallets. Threats, fear and intimidation can only get your message so far. After a while people may pay lipservice to get you off their backs, but they will find ways to throw sand in the cogs.

Fear not. For all of its bombast, wokeism will soon be thrown into the ashheap of history as with all Marxist schemes to divide and weaken America.

November 5, 2024 will go down as the election where America said “enough!” Trump’s election broke the the legacy mockingbird media and broke Hollywood. Both came to the shocking realization no one is listening to them anymore.

MSNBC, the tip of spear of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), finds its future and branding in limbo, with its parent corporation , Comcast threatening to spin off this cable network into a new company. With all this, the network’s anchors are negotiating pay cuts. .

That’s right, pay cuts ,not pay raises.

Rachel Maddow, the face of MSNBC, is reported to have agreed to reduce her $3o million a year salary and now MSNBC is in the process of trimming the salaries of biased hosts Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhle.

MSNBC anchors Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhle

Plummeting ratings mean reduced revenues. That’s capitalism 101 liberals. It means why should the networks pay outlandish salaries if the personalities lose their audiences?

MSNBC has lost more than half its viewers since election night November 5, hemorrhaging 55 percent of its primetime audience. CNN has experienced a 47 percent drop.

You know why this happening, mockingbird media? It’s because you lie. You lie about everything, you even tell the public that what they see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears are wrong (gaslighting).

You are nothing but the propaganda arm for the Uniparty, DIABLO’s and Democrats. A DIABLO (Hat tip : Mark Steyn) is a , Democrat In All But Label Only and describes turncoat Republicans more accurately than RINO (Republican in Name Only).

The victories continue during this holiday season. In an interview with CNN, Joe Manchin (D-WV) has properly labeled the Democrat Party as “toxic” and unrepresentative of the values of the American people.

Like most self-serving hacks , Senator Manchin speaks the truth on his way out where his power is unaffected. Never forget, this guy voted with his party over 90 percent of the time.

Still, it’s an inside baseball report detailing the collapse of the left . Want more evidence of the woke politics dam busting? Check this out.

The Biden Administration has tossed out the proposed Title IX transgender sports rule. The administration has ditched plans to prohibit states from banning transgendered women (biological men ) from participating in women’s sports. According to published reports, the Department of Education has announced it has withdrawn the proposed rule in the Federal Register. Read more about this here.

Courtesy: Newsweek

This news is in addition to major companies scrapping their DEI programs such as Toyota, Walmart , John Deere and Harley-Davidson. Walmart recently announced, according to Newsweek,

“… it plans to stop using the terms “LatinX” and “DEI” in official communications, won’t continue the Racial Equity Center it founded in 2020 and will ban any sexualized or transgender products marketed toward children.“

This is yuuge folks. Sanity is gradually being restored before our very eyes.

However, let’s be clear, just because the left is severely weakened right now, doesn’t mean these Marxists no longer pose a danger to America.

These godless radicals will merely watch and wait for any opportunity to exploit. Never ever forget, leftists are always scheming, plotting and patiently awaiting any opportunity to divide Americans against each other.

Let’s not fool ourselves. Those in the elite upper echelons of globalists are clever and evil people. God-fearing Americans must remain ever vigilant to their machinations if we hope to turn this country back from darkness to light.

To my Christian brothers and sisters, that means daily reading and studying of Scripture and constant prayer. We must be the light on a hill and the watchmen from the tower warning of danger. Christians can only tell the truth when they know the truth.

Let us bask in our victory for now. Again, congratulations, we broke the woke, but now the real work begins.

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Why is “A Charlie Brown Christmas” a holiday classic?

From its first airing on December 9, 1965 this program is an honest to goodness staple of Christmas viewing. Which begs the question, Why is A Charlie Brown Christmas a holiday classic?

The reason is a simple one, it is the first network Christmas special to feature the true meaning of Christmas: Jesus Christ , the Lord and Savior of the world.

Lee Mendelson approached Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, after Coca-Cola reached out to producer Mendelson over their desire to sponsor a holiday special. Mendelson and Schulz came up with a concept interspersing snow, ice skating , and a school play. The program would also incorporate jazz with traditional Christmas carols.

Lee Mendelson

Most importantly, Schulz wanted a reading of Christ’s birth by Linus. Despite reservations by Mendelson and animator Bill Melendez of controversy. Schulz insisted, “If we don’t do it , who will?”

Charles M. Schulz

We think of America in the early 60’s as being more conducive to Christianity, when in fact very few Christmas television programs, then, featured any substantive reference to religion.

Bill Melendez

Besides the reading of Luke 2, the show was historic for featuring child actors for the voices of the Peanuts gang. Melendez supplied the only adult vocal, voicing Snoopy. Jazz musician Vince Guaraldi composed the memorable soundtrack for the cartoon .

Vince Guaraldi

After screening the finished show, CBS network execs hated it: the pacing, the child voice talent, and the story. Problem was, they were committed to the time slot. The promos were out and Coca Cola was the sponsor.

Mendelson thought they had a flop on their hands and figured it was going to be one-and-done. But then the reviews came in and the rest is history.

As mentioned earlier, Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz insisted this special must put Jesus in the spotlight which was literally done when Linus, under a spotlight, recited Luke 2 :8-14 after Charlie Brown asked about the true meaning of Christmas.

Did you catch Linus dropping his security blanket when he recited “Fear not”? Watch it again, it’s like a subtle mic drop.

Why is A Charlie Brown Christmas a holiday classic? It’s because of that sincere and touching Linus reading of Luke 2. That Linus monologue is why this cartoon is a tradition to families nearly 60 years after its original broadcast .

Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!