For a Christmas in Freedom

No coronavirus brigade is going to ruin our Christmas — we won’t let them.

We Christians are joyful people. We are surrounded by an imperfect world. Which is why we turn to humor. A humorous look at things helps us to put what we see in perspective. But we are not just cheerful, we are also honest: the world that surrounds us these days is a dump. Our leaders are insane. Suddenly they have all become little Stalins, obsessed with taking care of us, forcing us to lead a healthy life, in what seems like the beginning of a nightmare that will end, sooner rather than later, by making all citizens subject to cholesterol tests, to forbid those of us who don't pass the test from buying seven-story hamburgers. If such a time arrives, I will be more up a creek than after kissing a hundred coronavirus-infected blondes.
I appreciate the zeal of the world's governments to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus on my life, but, believe me, my health would be much better off if they concentrated those efforts on lowering the damn taxes. My ideal of a healthy life is a country without violent redistribution of wealth, with a tiny government and a giant civil society. A country where it is possible to drink and smoke to one's heart's content, where both activities are also not savagely taxed, and where filling the gas tank — and paying its green taxes — is not a cardiovascular risk activity. My health is, in short, a country unashamed of its Christian roots, that does not feel an aphrodisiacal admiration for multiculturalism or for any old nonsense that comes from abroad, and that understands that Islamic radicalism is a moral cancer. My health is a country that is pro-life at all stages and in all circumstances, because I cannot trust the health advice of those who vote for the murder of babies and the elderly.
Ours is the religion of revelry, beer, pretty girls, and old American rock. Christianity does not idealize work, we do not see it as an end in itself. We don't like to work. We know that it is a punishment, originally, although over time God has ...