The Michael Knowles Show - December 20, 2025


Michael Knowles REACTS To Anti-Christmas TikToks


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16 minutes

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2,479

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233

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In this episode, we talk about the anti-Christmas sentiment and how to deal with it. We also talk about why we don't celebrate Christmas anymore and why we shouldn't even celebrate Christmas at all, and why that's a good thing.

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00:00:00.000 One of the biggest problems we deal with this time of year
00:00:02.640 is the people who love Christmas too much.
00:00:04.720 Okay, people, tomorrow morning, 10 a.m., Santa's coming to town.
00:00:09.940 And I know it's good to love Christmas at Christmas,
00:00:12.480 but they love Christmas so much they erase Advent.
00:00:14.580 Well, Merry Christmas.
00:00:15.900 Happy Holidays.
00:00:17.040 Just say it!
00:00:17.640 Okay, and we have to deal with them.
00:00:19.040 We need to get the Mariah Carey off the radio.
00:00:21.240 We need to get a little O' Come O' Come Emanuel back into People's Series.
00:00:24.460 There's another kind of problem, though, and that's the Christmas haters.
00:00:45.300 Oh, brother, this guy stinks!
00:00:48.800 How can there be a Christmas hater?
00:00:49.920 Who hates Christmas?
00:00:50.680 I know you have to be so, your soul has to be so perverse to hate Christmas,
00:00:55.480 and yet there are such people, and they are on TikTok.
00:00:58.680 Do they know it's Christmas is racist.
00:01:00.960 It has such wonderful lines as
00:01:02.840 Well, tonight, thank God it's there instead of you
00:01:08.760 And, of course
00:01:10.240 Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
00:01:16.140 Yes, Bob, there's been a Christian church in Africa since 50 A.D.
00:01:19.120 I'm pretty sure they know it's fucking Christmas.
00:01:21.280 Do they know it's Christmas is the worst of liberal charity?
00:01:24.860 So this Christmas, why not ask Santa to give you the end of neoliberal capitalism?
00:01:30.900 Ha la la la la la la la la la la 0.90
00:01:32.980 Okay, so they're focusing on that song, Do They Know It's Christmas,
00:01:36.540 and it's about these poor kids in Africa who, you know, I don't know,
00:01:40.500 they don't get a new iPad, so they don't know that it's Christmas.
00:01:44.120 And, yes, that's kind of cringe when you make Christmas just all about money and buying stuff.
00:01:49.220 And, okay, I agree with that critique of neoliberal capitalism.
00:01:52.220 But that's the farthest my agreement goes.
00:01:55.060 Because he makes a good point.
00:01:56.220 He says, look, we've had Christianity on the African continent since 50 A.D.
00:02:01.780 That's North Africa, which is very different from sub-Saharan Africa.
00:02:05.920 But then, yes, okay, then we get Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa eventually, too.
00:02:09.560 The problem, though, in both of those places is then the Christian communities were overrun by violent Muslims starting in the 7th century. 1.00
00:02:20.440 1,400 years ago and still today, severely persecutes those Christians, crucifies the church in Africa. 0.99
00:02:26.980 And so that's a deeper version of the neoliberal Do They Know It's Christmas?
00:02:31.320 Some people might not know it's Christmas because Christianity has been all but blotted out by Muslims there.
00:02:36.840 And that is a much deeper struggle.
00:02:41.080 Ah, yeah, cool.
00:02:42.140 All right.
00:02:42.500 All right, buddy.
00:02:43.280 Pass the eggnog.
00:02:44.220 Ah, who invited Uncle Bob to Christmas this year?
00:02:47.380 Next one.
00:02:48.280 I told my 13-year-old daughter that we won't be doing Christmas this year.
00:02:51.520 And she asked why.
00:02:53.000 And I simply told her that we don't let white men inside this house. 0.99
00:02:56.460 And she said she understood.
00:02:58.900 And Santa's a white man, right? 0.65
00:03:00.560 Though St. Nicholas was a little swarthy.
00:03:02.400 It's St. Nicholas a barry, isn't he?
00:03:04.000 A little bit on the duskier side of skin color. 0.97
00:03:08.260 Why are we not going to have Christmas?
00:03:09.140 Because I don't let white men in this house. 1.00
00:03:10.540 Okay.
00:03:11.840 Right back at you, b***h. 1.00
00:03:13.540 Well, I can't really argue with that, can I?
00:03:15.880 I can't argue with the tyranny of your will, I suppose.
00:03:19.520 Okay.
00:03:20.360 Next one.
00:03:21.620 For one cuteth a tree out of the forest.
00:03:24.120 Okay.
00:03:24.520 Now we're getting somewhere.
00:03:25.580 They cut a tree down.
00:03:26.660 Go ahead.
00:03:27.160 The work of the hands of the workmen with the axe.
00:03:30.480 And what do they do with that tree?
00:03:31.580 They deck it with silver and with gold.
00:03:36.040 What holiday in 2025 do we take a tree, bring it into our house, and put gold and silver ornaments on it?
00:03:44.000 What holiday is that?
00:03:46.380 Yeah.
00:03:47.180 I know.
00:03:47.820 It's shocking.
00:03:48.940 That's Christmas.
00:03:49.600 And Jeremiah wrote about Christmas years before Jesus ever touched the earth, showing you Christmas is not the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
00:03:59.680 It's something that our oppressors has put in place to deceive us into believing their rendition of the gospel compared to what God says the gospel is.
00:04:10.560 So we don't celebrate Christmas.
00:04:12.000 It's not even a biblical holiday.
00:04:13.960 Jeremiah told us way before Jesus was born not to do it.
00:04:16.000 So what is the pillar and bulwark of the truth?
00:04:18.700 I like, in a way, I'm kind of charmed by guys like this who, they read the Bible, and they focus in on one verse or two verses, and they come up with their own kind of cockamamie theology that comes in.
00:04:29.560 This is how all heresies begin, because heresy just means choosing.
00:04:32.500 So you take one thing, and you take a partial view of the truth, and you construct a false religion out of it.
00:04:37.940 What is the pillar and bulwark of the truth?
00:04:39.800 And what this guy and many other people will say is the Bible.
00:04:43.480 The Bible is the pillar and bulwark of the truth, but it's not.
00:04:50.360 Because if the pillar and bulwark of the truth were the Bible, then I would go to the Bible, and I would read, and I think it's 1 Peter 3.18, that the pillar and bulwark of the truth is the church.
00:05:00.540 And the church teaches from Scripture, which is inerrant, and Scripture which does not contradict itself, even though sometimes it kind of seems like it does.
00:05:10.320 And it actually establishes the canon of the Bible, and the Scripture which says in 2 Thessalonians, for instance, St. Paul, to adhere to all that we have taught you, both by written word and by word of mouth.
00:05:25.040 Where do we figure out, where do we find the authority for how exactly we should interpret Scripture, which could be interpreted any number of ways?
00:05:33.960 Well, Scripture tells us it's the church.
00:05:35.820 So one of the problems is when you try to interpret Scripture totally outside the 2,000-year tradition of the church, which Christ established and followed by the line of his apostles, you end up with kind of crazy stuff.
00:05:50.760 Like you said, Christmas has nothing to do with Christ.
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00:07:12.880 I'm always thrown off by the people that don't understand why some people don't like Christmas, and it's like, yeah, all those really nice, fun memories that you have that makes you like Christmas, not everybody has those.
00:07:26.740 Or maybe they have bad ones in place of your good ones.
00:07:30.640 That's why they don't like it.
00:07:32.440 It's not a hard concept.
00:07:34.740 I get it.
00:07:35.760 I feel for them.
00:07:36.580 But you know why I feel for them?
00:07:38.040 Because I have some bad memories of Christmas, too.
00:07:40.000 And you know why we're all going to have bad memories of Christmas?
00:07:42.880 Because at some point, your parents are going to die.
00:07:45.300 And that's why people get sad around Christmas.
00:07:47.080 It's because you remember when you were a kid, you had all these relatives at Christmas, and then slowly they died.
00:07:51.700 Which is why your love of Christmas should not come from yourself.
00:07:57.480 It should not just be about yourself and how cozy you were and how good the hot cocoa was.
00:08:01.200 It has to be about Christ.
00:08:03.900 Because the story of Christmas is that the world is waiting for centuries, millennia, waiting in corruption, in decay, in death for this event.
00:08:17.700 When God the Son, God himself, enters into history and saves the whole world.
00:08:23.260 And it is precisely because you have all these bad memories and bad experiences, that is precisely why you should feel such joy at Christmas.
00:08:31.040 Next one.
00:08:32.180 Dashing through the snow on a one-horse open sleigh.
00:08:36.480 Did you know the real Jingle Bells was not about bells?
00:08:40.500 Oh, come on. 0.87
00:08:41.340 It was about sleigh escaping.
00:08:43.220 Did you know that?
00:08:43.940 So the original Jingle Bells was named One Horse Open Sleigh.
00:08:48.380 It was written by this over here, James Pierpoint.
00:08:51.160 And according to an academic paper, the Christmas Carol Jingle Bells has racist origins.
00:08:55.800 The song was first performed in blackface in a Munsteril show in Boston in 1857.
00:09:01.040 What is a Munsteril show?
00:09:02.600 Munsteril show was a popular form of entertainment in the 19th and 20th century, which shows artists performing in blackface.
00:09:09.120 Like this over here.
00:09:09.860 Jingle Bells in particular was a funny one, but you have to do with slaves escaping.
00:09:14.760 Jingle Bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
00:09:18.580 Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.
00:09:23.720 Wow.
00:09:24.300 Wow.
00:09:24.660 Thanks for that education.
00:09:26.440 Gets a little bit wrong there.
00:09:27.940 Even down to minstrelsy.
00:09:29.200 No one wants to defend minstrel shows.
00:09:30.700 So I don't know.
00:09:31.080 I'll defend minstrel shows.
00:09:32.400 They weren't even, he says, he says they were just white people dressing up like black people.
00:09:36.640 And that's not, even that is not totally true because one of the most famous minstrel performers ever was Billy Kersands, who was a black guy.
00:09:42.540 Very famous minstrel performer and writer.
00:09:45.020 So his contention is Jingle Bells is not really about Santa Claus.
00:09:48.500 It's really, really racist.
00:09:50.380 All you would need to disprove that is just to look around and listen and see how Jingle Bells is sung.
00:09:56.640 And it's about Santa Claus.
00:09:59.200 Regardless, like, okay, yeah, we can't have Jingle Bells anymore.
00:10:03.420 Sure.
00:10:04.160 Thank you.
00:10:04.920 Thank you, man with a foreign accent.
00:10:06.560 Thank you for telling me.
00:10:07.460 I'll be sure to take your advice under consideration.
00:10:10.400 Next one.
00:10:11.100 We've totally whitewashed Christmas.
00:10:13.200 We see Christmas cards that are full of glitter and perfectly happy families and little bouncing babies.
00:10:20.060 And I just, that is not, that's not the picture the Bible paints.
00:10:22.940 You've got a despotic tyrant who was obsessed with murdering all the children.
00:10:27.200 You've got teenage pregnancy.
00:10:29.240 You've got, quite frankly, shamanic astrologers.
00:10:32.920 They're not these kind of wise old kings of oriental.
00:10:36.040 Then you've got the filthy shepherds who wouldn't even have been allowed in the temple to worship alongside everyone else.
00:10:41.640 They were total outcasts of society.
00:10:43.920 And then you look at the person of Jesus who was conceived out of wedlock.
00:10:47.760 I mean, that is extreme.
00:10:49.120 He was born to a teenage mum.
00:10:50.900 He was very likely born surrounded by filthy animals and certainly a ragtag bunch of total weirdos.
00:10:56.440 That's the Jesus at the heart of the Christmas stories.
00:10:58.920 We don't see that painted in our Christmas cards.
00:11:02.440 Yeah, I basically agree with that.
00:11:04.700 It's not, she's trying to make the scene seem disordered, I think.
00:11:09.120 It's a bunch of weirdos, you know.
00:11:11.220 And I think she's overstating it.
00:11:14.600 It is true that he was surrounded by animals in a cave.
00:11:17.380 You know, that's true in a manger, which is symbolic.
00:11:21.360 And it's actually a prefiguring of the Eucharist because the manger is where the animals eat.
00:11:26.660 But that's true.
00:11:27.760 And it's true that the kings of the orient obviously were wise and they were following the star.
00:11:32.960 And but they were also, yeah, they were pro-Zorastrian.
00:11:36.820 They were definitely a little out there.
00:11:38.540 And it's true, yeah, the despotic tyrant.
00:11:42.040 And yeah, I don't know.
00:11:42.780 I think that's all basically pretty good.
00:11:44.920 It's not a perfect picture of the elite of society.
00:11:47.600 It's not a perfect picture of everything working out exactly as we would all plan it.
00:11:52.240 No one plans to have their kid, you know, in a cave, in a manger.
00:11:54.800 But it is perfect.
00:11:55.940 It is ordered.
00:11:57.180 There is worship that's going on.
00:11:58.560 The kings actually did come because a star.
00:12:00.500 It's so well-ordered that actually the very sky, the heavens, cried out that Christ was being born in Bethlehem.
00:12:06.400 So there is order to this.
00:12:08.020 It's not, it's not like, you know, hey man, like all these guys with tattoos and crazy hair and, you know, like septum piercings.
00:12:16.380 They were all just doing whatever, man.
00:12:17.800 It wasn't that.
00:12:18.380 It was, it was very, very precise and it was perfect.
00:12:21.640 Obviously, it's a perfect event, but it does subvert your expectations.
00:12:24.620 And it subverts your expectations because God's plans are not fully known to us and we need to listen.
00:12:29.940 That's why we need to listen and we need to pay attention.
00:12:31.780 So I agree 96% with what she said.
00:12:34.760 Next one.
00:12:35.360 How dare we speak Merry Christmas?
00:12:38.020 How dare we?
00:12:39.620 Well, guess what?
00:12:41.340 We're saying Merry Christmas again.
00:12:49.320 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
00:12:51.200 Christmas tree at the Christmas party hop.
00:12:55.680 Great.
00:12:56.740 Is that my bonus?
00:12:57.940 Is that my bonus video?
00:12:59.080 That one's great.
00:12:59.840 Could have gone so much worse.
00:13:01.340 Could have gone.
00:13:01.840 Can you?
00:13:02.140 Oh, another, yet another thing to be grateful for this Christmas season.
00:13:05.780 Okay.
00:13:06.340 A blessed advent and a very Merry Christmas.
00:13:09.640 See you next time.
00:13:10.500 So.
00:13:11.460 See you next time.
00:13:13.680 As soon as you're back up, theard is in the Middle East. 0.97
00:13:15.520 The good news that you're back home is at organizational level.
00:13:19.000 If you're back into the middle, you're going to be sad.
00:13:20.500 Have a great arkadaÅŸ.
00:13:21.440 You're back into heaven.
00:13:22.320 That's fine.
00:13:23.400 You're right.
00:13:24.080 Bye.
00:13:24.720 Goodbye.
00:13:25.320 And you're back out of your day.
00:13:27.240 Now, this is your situation.
00:13:27.500 I'll throw you back out of your house. 1.00
00:13:28.200 But in your life.
00:13:29.360 I shall get out of your house.
00:13:29.740 If you meet you, the expensive dude.
00:13:31.620 See you next time.
00:13:32.700 держ her on your house. 1.00
00:13:33.720 Then, you're back.
00:13:34.740 And you're right there and you're back then.
00:13:35.260 You're going to feed me.
00:13:36.360 Thank you.
00:14:06.360 Thank you.
00:14:36.360 Thank you.
00:15:06.360 Thank you.
00:15:36.360 Thank you.