Kirk Cameron’s Christmas movie flops


Received the following in Mike Gendron’s newsletter today about Kirk Cameron’s film Saving Christmas:

Kirk Cameron was relying on a large turnout of Christians for the success of his new movie Saving Christmas; however its two week run ended with a thud. Sunny Shell, reporting for The Christian Post, said, “Thankfully, Christians are smarter than some think, and not even the glitter of a celebrity Christian can cause us to bow down to a golden calf wrapped in faux ‘holiday cheer.'” Cameron responded to the low ratings by blasting haters and atheists.

In an interview with The Christian News Network, Mike Gendron noted that Christmas in itself is a Roman Catholic holiday mixed with pagan traditions. He said, “The word Christmas means the mass of Christ when a wafer is said to become the physical body and blood of Jesus Christ. The Mass becomes a ritualistic slaying of Jesus Christ on an altar for the purpose of appeasing the wrath of God. This is official Roman Catholic doctrine, and ‘Christmas’ is a word they invented for Christ’s mass. When people say, ‘Merry Christmas,’ they probably don’t know the meaning behind the greeting. They are mixing the holy name of Christ with a pagan holiday and a blasphemous representation of Christ on an altar.”

Christmas is a repackaged pagan holiday.  While Protestants, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and others observe it, it never was a Christian holy day. Mike Gendron is a former Roman Catholic who now espouses a Protestant faith.

We in the Continuing Church of God do not observe Christmas and teach why Christians would not wish to.  Instead, we keep the same days as holy as Jesus did.

Notice something else about the movie:

Was Santa Claus a Christian? A ‘defender of the faith’? Is this reason to sit on the lap of the bearded man at the mall who “knows if you’ve been naughty or nice”? That is what Kirk Cameron is claiming as proof why Christians should celebrate Christmas in a new documentary that opens this Friday in theaters across the country—an assertion that is raising concerns over Cameron’s confusion of Roman Catholicism with Christianity. …

After recently asserting that Christians should celebrate Halloween, in a video clip released … entitled “Do You Love Santa Claus,” Cameron stated that “maybe someone like Santa Claus is actually on our team.” He then released a second video providing the history of the figure of Santa Claus, who was actually the Roman Catholic Bishop Nicholas of Myra, Turkey under Pope Sylvester I.

“He was a devout Christian,” Cameron states, but not noting Nicholas’ Roman Catholic faith. “He was left with a large sum of money when his parents died, and be became famous for his kindness toward the poor and his generous giving of gifts to children.”



Actor Darren Doane, the director and co-writer of “Saving Christmas” and who also plays “Christian” in the film, referred to Catholics as his Christian brothers in a Tweet this past May, writing, “My Catholic brothers worshiping Mary is no more weird to me than my evangelical brothers worshiping atheistic Israel land borders.”


Cameron said that the use of Santa Claus, who had developed from the person of St. Nicholas, was therefore not so bad after all.

“So the guy that many of us think is distracting from the birth of the Christ child, is really the defender of the faith you and I want to be,” he asserted. “So now that you know who the real Santa Claus is, you want to take a picture with him at the mall this Christmas? I do.”

But some do not agree with Cameron’s assertions, and believe that Christians should stay away from joining with the Roman Catholic Church or honoring its icons.  http://christiannews.net/2014/11/12/kirk-cameron-raising-concerns-after-coming-out-in-support-of-santa-claus/

Nicholas was not a real saint nor man of the true Christian faith.  Notice also that at Nicea he actually punched someone he did not agree with (more details on him are in the post Catholic Saint Nicholas Day). Notice that Nicholas also claimed to see an apparition of Mary–and that certainly was not Jesus’ mother (see also Mary, the Mother of Jesus and the Apparitions).  Christians are to worship God, not Mary.

The whole Christmas season began as a big party to honor the sun god (Do You Practice Mithraism?), not Jesus. So much so, that was the reason that December 25th was chosen.  December 25th was the date to honor the sun god Mithras (see Do You Practice Mithraism? and What Does the Catholic Church Teach About Christmas and the Holy Days?).

Christmas IS NOT a biblical holy day, nor did early Christians observe it.

There are numerous pagan practices associated with Christmas, and Kirk Cameron has sadly wanted to push them as well as improper aspects of the ecumenical agenda that many Protestants seem to be falling for.

Some items of possibly related interest may include the following:

Hanukkah Originally a Jewish national holiday, has Hanukkah morphed into a Jewish Christmas?
Was Jesus Born in the Grotto of the Nativity? Was Jesus born in a below ground cave? Was Jesus born below the “Church of the Nativity”? Were the wise men there?
How did December 25th become Christmas? Was Jesus born then? If not, why December 25? Here is the article translated into Mandarin Chinese 12月25日最后是怎么被许多基督的信仰者采纳的.
Is Keeping Christmas a Sin? Is keeping Christmas acceptable for true Christians? What are some scriptures to consider?
International ‘Halloween’ Should Christians observe Halloween? There are many cultures that have celebrations and observances that are similar to some associated with Halloween. What did the Druids do? Is Halloween one of the most important holidays for Satanists? Do the Japanese, Indians, and Chinese have any practices that are similar to some associated with Halloween? Does the Bible endorse or condemn practices that are associated with Halloween? This is a video.

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