By: Seyyed Ali Shahbaz
     
“Jesus, many were the nations I destroyed for their committing of sins.”
This is what God Almighty told His humble servant, the Virgin-born Messiah, sent to the “lost sheep of Israel”, which remains perpetually lost, as is evident by the horrifying crimes the racist/terrorist Zionist entity continues to commit against humanity with the criminal support of the supposedly Christian regimes of North America and West Europe. 
Today, as Christians in West mark January 1 as the First Day of the year 2025, it is worth recalling the gist of the message of Prophet Jesus (peace upon him), who left no stone unturned to try to guide the Israelites – a nation of ingrates who always disobey God Almighty.
He campaigned against oppression and injustice. He forbade fornication, adultery, promiscuity, sodomy, lesbianism, cheating, cheating, telling lies, usury, occupying others’ houses and homelands, stealing, coveting, vandalism, murder, genocide, desecration of sanctities, hypocrisy, unveiling of women, associating partners with the One and Only God, and all evil acts, which are unfortunately widely prevalent in the western societies, despite their claim to be Christian.
This means, the West is alienated from the message of the Son of Mary in whose name the Gregorian calendar starts, although it is linked to the heathen heritage of ancient Rome with no connection to either Jesus or his Virgin Mother (peace upon them) – who are venerated by Muslims but slandered by the Zionists whom today’s Christians unwittingly support.
Wonder, how many of the officials in the West, especially of the supposedly big powers, have the soul and the mind to reflect on their strategic blunders of the past year that have worsened the misery of mankind, especially in view of the adage that says:
“The object of a New Year is to have a new soul, and to prepare for the present requires proper pondering on incidents of the year gone by.”
Unfortunately, last night the decadent western culture ushered in the New Year with the usual depravities – wild celebrations as revelers committed the oldest sins in the newest ways, as if the goal of life is sadism and pleasures of the flesh, without the least thought for the sufferings of fellow humans.
In view of these undeniable facts, the New Year of the Gregorian Calendar Year, whatever its origin and in whatever way the West and its client regimes in the Arab World and its former colonies in Asia and Africa celebrate it, is not expected to bring any relief to humanity.
It is for this reason January 1 is often called the Day of the Depraved because of its pagan Roman origins and the indulgence of the misled on this occasion in the most cardinal sins on which the Bible frowns upon.
The fact of the matter is that January 1 is not the New Year of the Jews, neither of the Christians, nor of the Muslims – or of the Zoroastrians, the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Shamanists, the Animists, the Chinese, and the indigenous Amerindians.
In other words, none of the religious texts of the said creeds or their principle figures, including Prophet Jesus (AS), ever said anything about of January 1.
Then whose New Year is it? How did it find way into Christianity? Who imposed on world countries? What purpose does it serve?
Interesting questions indeed. History provides answers. It was in 45 BC that Julius Caesar ordered the change of the Roman calendar from the spring of March to the gloom of winter by fixing January 1 as the start of the New Year in order to commemorate one of his military exploits.
The origin of January 1 is thus a celebration of brutal military force in a part of central Europe that had resulted in such human misery as massacre of men, rape and enslavement of women, orphaning of children and destruction of homes and hearths.
Over three centuries later when Emperor Constantine imposed on the Roman Empire the polytheist concept of Trinity – coined by Paul the Hellenized Jew who had artfully emptied the message of Jesus of its monotheistic contents, the Church christianized the Julian calendar.
It renamed pagan festivals – e.g. Christmas for the day of the wild bacchanal festivities of Dionysius and Mithra – and changed the beginning of the New Year to various dates in the subsequent eras, ranging from December 25 to Easter in March-April, and finally to September.
A millennium later in 1582, Pope Gregory after some revisions of the Julian calendar launched a new calendar in his name (Gregorian) on February 24 of that year, but strangely, he neither chose the Spring Equinox nor the Autumnal Equinox, and decided to revert to the pagan practice of January 1 as the New Year.
This is how the wintry gloom of the pagan Roman New Year appeared for the first time amongst the Christians, though it took several more centuries for acceptance of January 1 as the start of the New Year for most European countries.
For instance, the Netherlands adopted the Gregorian or so-called Christian calendar in 1698; Britain and its colonies including what is now the US in 1752; Russia in 1918, a after the atheist Bolshevik Revolution, and Greece as late as 1923.
Interestingly, British history marks September 2, 1752 as the day of the 12-day sleep. That Wednesday night millions in England and the colonies went to sleep and when they woke up the next morning on Thursday, it was 14 of September instead of September 3.
At any rate, it was only in the 20th century between the Two World Wars that the neo imperialists in London imposed the Gregorian calendar, along with January 1 as New Year Day, upon the rest of the world in order to hold the globe in ransom to their hegemonic policies.
In other words, the neo colonialist regimes in North America and Western Europe pay only lip service to Christianity, while hating from the depth of their hearts the Virgin-born Messiah and his monotheistic message of peace, virtue, and social justice.
It is worth noting that none of the Orthodox Churches – Greece, Cyprus, Constantinople (Istanbul), Alexandria (Egypt), Antioch (Syria), Cyprus, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, etc. – have accepted the Vatican’s imposition of the Gregorian calendar and January 1 as New Year Day.
To sum up, it is the path of the Prophets of God that ensures universal peace and fraternity, and not the devilish designs of the Zionists and the Americans, those avowed enemies of Jesus and the Virgin Mary (peace upon them).