RH said (December 24, 2022):

When I read this post and watched the video on how Rudolph is an outsider with a big nose who represents Jews in a Christian culture, for some odd reason it reminded me of a farmer I met years ago when I was in Ag lending. It was the 1980s and times were very hard for farmers with many of them going broke and losing their farms. This one particular farmer said to me personally he didn't mind his neighbors going broke because he would be able to buy their machinery extra cheap and may be even their land. This comment kind of bounced off me at the time he said it, but later I thought it was a hard way to live, hoping or more or less cursing your neighbors into poverty so you can personally and financially gain from their ruin.

And we have all met the office jerk(s) who smirks at our failures because somehow that makes himself feel better.

I am not talking about a specific people group...just people.

We earn a poor reputation from our behaviors with others. In some cases, it is carried forward by an ethnic group. It is this we have to recognize and then attempt to change ourselves for the better.

If it is said, treat our neighbor as we would like to be treated ourselves, do we need to parse the words further? Such as saying, "Who is my neighbor?" I want to think everyone is my neighbor and apply the statement accordingly.

If Christmas songs are written with hidden motives or for devious end means, they certainly can not be in the Spirit of Christmas. They should be discarded. I am learning the same with even pop songs that have catchy tunes but terrible lyrics. No thank you.

I don't want to die being angry at even one person...no matter what they have done to me.

J Jones said (December 10, 2018):

A heartfelt thank you for today's update. So many triggers concerning my own childhood, including watching the Rudolph TV show every year, but they're not really unique and there's very little for me to add but this: we always got gold covered coins in fishnet bags in our stockings, and where do you think that tradition came from? I even remember having Chinese food on Christmas once and wondering why.

Kristine said (December 10, 2018):

Jew” is Esau, who cannot accept that he both sold his birthright and was replaced by Jacob for the blessing. He still hates his brother but there will be hell to pay, soon.

“Jews” cannot "replace God", that is impossible. “Jews” are the chosen people of satan, as they are the children of Cain.

Satan has promised his seed that he will reverse Bible prophecy and kill the Almighty Creator, if the “jews” will help him break the glass ceiling via "climb-it”*, which will provide them with the “change” they believe in.

It is all a hoax and abra-ca-dabra. But until the Almighty comes, there will be blood. And afterward, everlasting destruction for “the jew”.

*”climate; tower of babel take II

Robert M said (December 10, 2018):

I've always been aware of, and have never liked, a key aspect of this song, unusual in a Christmas song - the audience being lectured, taught a morality tale, about inclusivity and prejudice. Just like movies and TV shows in the 70s, even some of our favorite shows from the old days that were still on, started lecturing us about male chauvinism and racial prejudice.

JG said (December 10, 2018):

I remember around Christmas time I use to go to this bar in a working class Polish neighborhood to play pool and listen to their Christmas songs on the juke box. I remember the good cheer that was in that bar this time of year. That bar today is long gone and the neighborhood is no longer working Polish. You might get your car stolen or worse if you were to go to that place today.

It's the people who make the community what it is.
A multicultural third world America and Europe are in the making and the results will be devastating as it already is in many cities.

We all have to be thankful that we once lived in a time and experienced what life can be and not what life shouldn't be.