Is It Possible To Celebrate an Environmentally Friendly Christmas?

Given that carbon neutral home heating methods are yet to be invented for colder climes, are their ways to lower our carbon footprint while celebrating the Yuletide Season?

By: Ringo Bones

Given the deadlock in this year’s UN COP 25 negotiations and scores of climate change denying heads-of-state had been recently elected into office, it seems that keeping our carbon footprint to a minimum when celebrating this Holiday season has become a necessity just to keep our planet livable for the next generation. Having an environmentally conscious Christmas is probably what Greta Thunberg wished for Santa this year and we can do our part too.

Using plastic disposable utensils during Christmas dinner is not only tacky it is also uglier in the landfill and puts more pressure on our fragile environment. Using natural biodegradable Christmas décor also helps in a big way and if you can keep a tree alive as a Christmas tree for a number of years, this too will put a big dent on your carbon footprint this Yuletide Season. And carbon offsetting when you come home for the Holidays – especially if your workplace requires you to take a plane ride to be home for Christmas.

Gifts should be dictated by quality and not quantity. Some of your well-heeled gift recipients this Holiday Season will probably appreciate donating to charity in their behalf given that you are probably be too poor to buy them a Learjet powered by sustainably produced jet fuel. And while eating meat can drastically increase your carbon footprint, choosing to eat one only during special occasions at least would reduce it to a manageable level.

Was Jesus Christ Gay?

Even though the relationship between the LGBT community and the Church has been “less than ideal” throughout the centuries, is there any truth to the so-called “Biblical Evidence” that Jesus was gay?

By: Ringo Bones 

Even though a majority of Christians around the world view the idea of Jesus Christ had a so-called romantic relationship with Mary Magdalene is the stuff of fiction that doesn’t have any Biblical evidence whatsoever, Biblical scholars have recently noted, although all of them are still reluctant of admit, that evidence of Jesus’ homosexuality was actually written down on the Holy Bible. But is there sufficient evidence for this beyond a reasonable doubt?

Given that the historically accurate Jesus Christ was likely to be akin to that of a Hebrew rabbi, since 2,000 years ago, there are no laws forbidding rabbis from marrying and having a family. Jesus being an unmarried rabbi until his crucifixion is unusual indeed. And given that the gospels clearly states that Jesus Christ had loved John the Apostle in a “special way”, the speculation that Jesus might be gay is now sounding more plausible. And during his crucifixion, only three women and one man of his closest inner circle were present at his side. That man was John the Apostle.

The man now known as St. John the Apostle clearly had a unique place in the affection of Jesus. In all classic depictions of The Last Supper – a favorite subject in Christian art, John is next to Jesus, very often is head is resting on Jesus’ breast. As Jesus lay dying on the cross, Jesus asked John to look after his mother and then asked John’s mother to “accept John as her son” – implying that John’s mother has not  ,until that time, fully accepted the homosexuality of her son John or the ongoing homosexual relationship between John the Apostle and Jesus Christ. If you ask me, the gospel-based evidence of Jesus’ homosexuality is more compelling than that of 19^th Century Washington D.C. socialite Virginia Woodburry Fox’s diaries describing Abraham Lincoln’s secret homosexual tryst.