Timothy Birdnow

My brother Brian received an e-mail from Fred Pestello, President of St. Louis University (our mutual alma matre) wishing alum a merry Christmas. Now this is in no ways unusual, but Dr. Pistello (a socialist turned administrator) was actually violating his own custom of wishing "Happy Holidays" to alumni.

St. Louis University is a Jesuit-run Catholic university and not a secular college. Pistelli angered Brian and many others by refusing to say Christmas, so this year he chose to wish everyone a merry Christmas.

But of course he couldn't stop there; he also wished everyone else a happy this or that - including a happy KWANZAA! Liberals just can't help themselves.

Kwanzaa is a fake holiday created by an afro-centric college professor named Maulana Ron Karenga, the artist formerly known as Ronald McKinley Everett) to be a black competitor to "white Christmas" back in 1966. He claimed it was a traditional African harvest celebration (in December?) and he promoted things that are just knock-offs of Judeo-Christian ideals.

(In 1971, he was convicted of felony assault, torture, and false imprisonment of women,I might add. https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/31/kwanzaa-is-a-fake-holiday-invented-by-a-criminal-marxist/)

Anyway the whole thing is something the man just pulled from his posterior. In short, it was and remains fake news, yet the media still doesn't fully report it that way. I doubt Facebook would fact-check it if it was presented as a traditional African festival, as Mr. Karenga initially claimed.

So why is the President of St. Louis University wishing a happy Kwanzaa to the SLU community?

Liberals just ca't help themselves; they promote anything that tears down our culture, our shared heritage, our religious beliefs. No idea, no matter how insane or just plain kooky, is off the table provided it acts in opposition to the norm.

In 1John2: "Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come."

Does it not occur to Pestello that a counter-Christmas based on lies is in fact antichrist? A head of a Catholic university should understand that. The sole purpose of Kwanzaa is to seduce those of African descent away from our western Judeo-Christian beliefs. It is the spirit of antichrist.

Also:

2Thessalonians 2:

3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

[...]

10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie

Isn't this exaclty what we are witnessing these days? And isn't that what Pestello is promoting? Oh, I'm sure he just thinks he's being big and open and tolerant but in the end if the President of a Catholic university cannot be content to wish his community a merry Christmas but must throw in Kwanzaa at the same time there is something profoundly wrong going on.

Pestello also presided over the invasion of SLU by Black Lives Matter and let the "Occupy SLU" movement trespass on campus for months. The seige only ended with the infamous "Clocktower Accords" in which the university removed Christian statues and promised to put up a statue celebrating the invaders. They also affirmed a formal commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). https://www.slu.edu/news/2022/february/clock-tower-accords.php and https://www.slu.edu/diversity/occupy-slu/clock-tower-accords/index.php

Slu was already inclusive, diverse, and equitable but that's not what DEI is about; it's about PREFERENTIAL treatment for those whom the mandarins of cultural marxism deem fit. In short, the spirit of antichrist.

St. Louis University will never get a penny from me unless they change their evil ways. I am not going to underwrite DEI.

And lest you think Pestello did this under duress, think again. https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/new-slu-president-promises-inclusion/article_6e1a7834-b549-11e3-b308-0019bb2963f4.html

Pestello should not have been hired in the first place. He's the first secular president of the university and he radicalized his previous college in Syracuse.

He is one of those deceived by the spirit of antichrist. And he is a deceiver himself.

If Catholic universities cannot actually be Catholic then the time is at hand.

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