I took some time off from writing around the holidays and spent time with my family.  But that didn’t stop me from taking a look at my Twitter feed every now and then.  And as Christmas approached I took a screenshot every time I read what I thought was an absolutely horrid take on the holiday.  My thought was to write a piece highlighting the ten worst takes.   

But like many parents of three young kids, my phone’s storage is completely maxed out with videos, photos, apps and games.  So on Christmas Eve, when my wife asked me to snap a few pictures of the kids leaving the Jesus Birthday Cake by the fireplace for Santa along with their note making sure the fat man was properly evangelized, I had to clear some space.  And most all of those screenshots were the first to go.

But I hung on to two.  Two that marked the worst of the worst in my humble opinion.  And to make sure I was equally-opportunity, fair-and-balanced, I kept the worst I saw from the left and the worst I saw from the right.  Let me preface this by saying that in the vast intellectual wasteland that is Twitter I am quite confident there were far worse takes.  But alas, I am only privy to seeing tweets from the people I follow, or in the case of our winners here, their retweets of people they follow.

So without further ado, here’s the worst Christmas take I saw from the right:

I don’t even know what to say.  First of all, who in their right mind is honestly offended at the phrase “Happy Holidays?”  Have we all gone mad?  Is it not strange to think that the best way to react to people who get mad about the phrase “Merry Christmas” is to get mad about the phrase “Happy Holidays?”  If it’s silly to be offended by the first greeting (and it is) then isn’t it silly to be offended by the second greeting (it is). 

The “Info Wars” watermark on the video might make it understandable, but it doesn’t make it okay.  Shooting a piece of cardboard with the words “Happy Holidays” completely misses the mark as to what the season is about. 

As does this worst Christmas take that I saw from the left:

It’s literally about none of those things.  To say that the Incarnation of the God-Man Christ is “about” these things is beyond a stretch even for the most ardent social gospel adherent.  In short, it’s just a stunningly vapid and shamefully inappropriate politicization of the greatest story ever told. 

Notice that nowhere in Carlos’s analysis of what Christmas is “about” did he mention the salvation of lost souls.  If you wonder why so many of us warn about the dangers of the social gospel and woke theology, and how it leads people away from the real Gospel of salvation in Christ alone, this is it.  If you can interpret the coming of Jesus into our world and fail to even mention the salvation of souls, it’s time to stop tweeting and time to start reading the Scriptures.

The Apostle Paul put it best when telling humanity what Christmas is about: “But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.”

You can’t help but ask the haunting question why anyone wearing the name of Christ would be ashamed to bear witness to that truth with the whole world watching on Christmas.  Only Carlos can answer that question.  I’ll just call it what it was: an epically bad take on Christmas.