The Horrors of Kitschy Greetings: Why Christians Should Wish for Bright, Not Happy Holidays

There is no sadder day for Christians, so we wish bright, not happy holidays

I have been looking for a long time to meet a person who makes animated greetings on facebook. You know, those flickering, flashing, patterned, glittering cards that they put on their walls or send to their innocent friends with powerful positive-aggressive pathos.

For example, a bouquet of roses and coffee in a painted bone china cup, a duckling with a knitted coat, a piece of marble cake between its legs, a butterfly, flashing sparks, and at the top the inscription: “Controversial new week.” No wonder.

Or a woman’s face with a heavy diamond tiara on her forehead, a flower, a smiling emoticon and writes: “Magical evening! An evening of a dream come true. From me the magic… from you… the dreams…”

I would really like to know how long it takes to make

such a monstrous disgrace

what do the masters of kitsch in question do, what in this life lifts them up and brings them down. As well as where their satisfaction is rooted in the refined work on Facebook, because sharing is completely free. Does the creative heart sing, does the soul light up from the nameless glory of “Light, calm afternoon” with

a kitten in a cognac glass?

The web is overflowing with catalogs of horrors, decorated with cheeky babies and all sorts of puppy snots. The situation worsens sharply during major church holidays, when the imagination of the unknown authors is unleashed and splashed like a pot of tripe soup forgotten on the stove. The grave impiety they demonstrate raises serious concerns about the religious education of the laity. It begs the question

do these citizens have any idea at all why one enters a church,

who does the priest serve and why is a wax candle lit.

Turmoil and shock pours forth in full force from collages dedicated to Good Friday, the saddest day in Christendom. We have: “Happy Holidays!” against the background of a fragment of Michelangelo’s Sistine fresco.

Or: “Blessed be you! Good Morning Good Friday”, topped with an image of

Jesus Christ on the cross with the crown of thorns, and behind is a vague silhouette

It’s probably a reference to the apostles, or it could just be a blurry shot from Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, padded with a Bible and blooming lilies.

Also not to be missed is the card “Controversial Friday – April 14”, glowing with red tulips and fuzzy white flowers, two doves carrying in their beaks a gold necklace in the shape of a heart with a diamond in the middle and two red cups in the foreground with spoons.

As well as “Happy Friday! Good morning!” written above a bunny-shaped cookie, a basket of blue eggs and two blue glasses. It’s also not bad: “Good Friday morning! I wish you a nice, sunny, amazing and successful day today…”.

If there is absolutely nothing to do, I will fill the entire “24 hours” with such absurd messages, they have no end. With the same success

can congratulate the Japanese

August 6, the anniversary of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, which suddenly killed 80 thousand people. Or to greet the Turks and Syrians next year on February 6 – the day when the earth shook eerily and the number of victims reached 41 thousand. For Christian nations, there is no greater tragedy than the crucifixion of Christ, so we wish for bright, not happy holidays.

Faith is first and foremost a personal experience. A person may not have opened a Bible, have no idea of ​​the fall of sin and redemption, paint eggs on Maundy Thursday by intuition, not knowing what is great for him, not make a connection with the Last Supper, and may not have heard of betrayal.

Today’s Christians in Bulgaria, who survived the all-encompassing half-century of communist propaganda, have not had, and probably will not have, religious education classes in school. For most of us, our faith is inherited from our families, along with the respect we owe to our elders.

and good home education

Sometimes that’s enough, but other times it’s not enough.

One person wrote: “I have noticed that whatever happens with Christ, we only eat and drink.” The scary thing is that the pit of conscious ungodliness is getting bigger and bigger. We can fight the greenhouse effect, but I don’t know how we will close it.