Julie Roys has long been a liberal operating in Christian news reporting, and she’s not above petty articles of policing politically incorrect actions as intolerable. Julie Roys’s long history of being a bad actor includes peddling panic porn about the coronavirus. She went after Liberty University for having a snowball fight, as well as repeated articles attacking John MacArthur for reopening his church. Moreover, she is also a PC language police that weaponized cancel culture. Recently, she targeted Rick Warren’s church for creating a video featuring Kung Fu, decrying it as racist. She also went after MacArthur for telling Beth Moore to “go home.” So naturally, Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab is an enemy to her, as he stands for politically incorrect speech and is a man.
Andrew Torba has recently exposed how Christmas music has long been secularized by Jewish songwriters.
Like Replacement Theory, the liberals brag about this achievement while denying it as a conspiracy theory. It’s plainly obvious the role that music has played in secularizing Christmas.
Yet Bob Smietana and Julie Roys ran an article attacking Andrew Torba for calling this a bad thing.
Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University, suggested Christian nationalists such as Torba might want to do a little reading about American history. Firstly, he pointed out, Christmas was not really a part of America’s founding. “The Puritans were opposed to Christmas,” Sarna said….
Sarna said that the songs written by Jewish songwriters fit into the American tradition of celebrating Christmas as a seasonal celebration, rather than a religious one. “They are more in the tradition of Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ than in the tradition of ‘Silent Night,’” he said.
In addition to waxing on how the secularization of Christmas music is good, the article concludes by attacking Christian Nationalism.
If Torba’s defense of Christmas is neither particularly American nor particularly religious, his antisemitism is in keeping with the ideology he espouses, Christian nationalism.
Data from a 2020 national survey found a relationship between Christian nationalism — the idea that America belongs to Christians and that Christians should run the country — and antisemitism. The more that Americans believed in Christian nationalism, the more they supported antisemitic claims that Jews have too much power in America and around the world.
“It’s a function of what psychologists call a social dominance orientation,” said Paul Djupe, associate professor of political science at Denison University. “They think that there’s a rightful order of things and that Christians should be on top.”
Despite the anger of Christian nationalism, Sarna doubted that many people know the religion of Christmas carol writers. Or care what they believe.
Most people who sing Christmas carols, he said, just want to sing their favorites.
Indeed Christian Nationalists believe that Christ is king which is widely labeled antisemetic, which is ultimately the kingship opposed by the likes of Bob Smietana and Julie Roys.
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Can’t say I think very highly of either. Roys is unquestionably bad news, but it’s a stupid post by Torba, at best. As if 25 songs out of thousands, over nearly a century, would somehow substantiate the existence of some sort of Jewish conspiracy and/or the implication that Jews are the cause of all the problems in existence. As if Jews are the only non-Christians to have ever written Christmas songs. Good grief. It’s stupid.
And he wonders why someone might consider him to be antisemitic …
i just want make a statement about groups when certain groups have been targeted as hated groups of people often times they are very sensitive about attack and they can become overly sensitive which means all you have to do is look at them the wrong way and you are attacking them but it doesn’t mean you are attacking them because your prejudice and sometimes they are themselves are very prejudice because there highly opinionated ideas which is ok for them but not you because if you say it your prejudice so offen times you need a meadiator to talk with them after all if your always right then everybody else is always wrong i. mrean you say bathroom i say barthroom you say tomatoe i say tomartoe darling
PBS has produced a series of programs on various ethnic groups in the United States. “The Jewish Americans” stated that the song “White Christmas” had a great influence in turning Christmas in America from a religious holiday to a secular holiday.
In the list above, “Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!,” “Baby, it’s Cold Outside,” “Winter Wonderland,” and “Sleigh Ride” are just winter songs, and have nothing to do with Christmas. The same is true for “Jingle Bells,” “Frosty the Snowman,” and “It’s a Marshmallow World” among others, but most people are too stupid to differentiate between winter and Christmas.