Brussels erases Jesus’ face from Grand Place crèche, spends €150k on faceless rag dolls. Cathedral nods along. This is not diversity – it’s surrender
Newsroom (04/12/2025 Gaudium Press ) They finally did it. After years of renaming Christmas markets “winter markets,” banning carols in schools, and hiding crosses so nobody feels “excluded,” the progressive elites of Brussels have gone straight for the jugular of Western civilization: they have simply erased the face of God.
In the glittering shadow of the Grand Place Christmas tree, the traditional Nativity scene has been replaced by €150,000 worth of life-size rag dolls wrapped in recycled textiles. Mary: faceless. Joseph: faceless. And the Baby Jesus Himself? A blank, featureless patch of cloth where the most depicted, most kissed, most wept-over face in human history is supposed to be.
City hall called the old wooden crèche “too damaged” to repair. Translation: too Christian, too European, too recognizably ours. Mayor Philippe Close, the secular socialist who never met a tradition he couldn’t neuter, insisted Brussels would not go as far as cities that abolish Nativity scenes altogether. So instead they abolished the Nativity while pretending to keep it, commissioning five years of expensive ideological upholstery and calling it progress.
Even more grotesque: they asked the Church for permission. St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral – the spiritual guardian of Brussels for centuries – looked at these faceless mannequins and said, “Sure, why not?” A cathedral that once housed relics and crowned kings has now crowned cowardice.
The artist, Victoria-Maria Geyer, babbles about “sustainability” and “fabrics of coexistence.” The result looks like a luxury laundry hamper that wandered into sacred history.
No Muslim association demanded this. No Jewish council protested carved wooden faces. No immigrant group marched against Baby Jesus having European features. This desecration was 100 % made-in-Brussels by the same pampered caste that regards Christianity as an embarrassing family heirloom to be hidden when progressive friends come round.
This is iconoclasm with a EU subsidy. The original Iconoclastic controversy tore the Byzantine Empire apart for two centuries because it went to the heart of Christmas itself: if God truly became man, if the Word took flesh and received a human face that could be touched and depicted, then matter itself is sanctified and images are not idolatry but theology in colour and line. The icon-lovers won in 843, and the West was born. Brussels just voted to lose again.
Christmas is the wild claim that the invisible God dared to have cheekbones, tears, and a mouth that would one day say “Forgive them.” By scrubbing that face from face, Brussels proclaims the opposite: disincarnation. A continent terrified to look its own God in the eye.
Real inclusion would have been easy – add the black Magus who has been part of European art since the Middle Ages, throw in some shepherd boys, maybe even a wondering Roman centurion. Instead they subtracted humanity itself, producing a tableau so neutered it offends precisely the people it was meant to represent: the Christians of Europe.
Our God has a face. For two thousand years we have painted it, carved it, kissed it in icons, wept before it on the Cross. Rip that face away and what is left is not universalism; it is surrender. These expensive, mute rag dolls on the Grand Place until 2029 are not a celebration of diversity.
They are a monument to cowardice, teaching the next generation that faith, to be tolerable in modern Europe, must first be made faceless, anonymous, and dead.
Merry Disincarnate Christmas, Brussels. You just cancelled the reason for the season.
- Raju Hasmukh with files from Brussels Signal
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