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Wednesday, 28 December 2005
Humbuggery

Thank goodness that ridiculous "War on Christmas" nonsense is over for another year. Italians, Spaniards, Frenchmen and Germans are so lucky they don't have to suffer through the "Keep Christ in Christmas" crap, what with their Buon Natale, Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noël and Fröhliche Weihnachten.

It struck me yesterday that the whole hullaballoo seems like something Screwtape or Anthony Crowley would have dreamed up: get Christians so trapped in the bunker mentality, concentrating so hard on defending themselves against "secularists", that they forget all about that whole "peace on Earth, good will towards Men" message which used to be the focus of Christmas. I didn't see a single church signboard with that scriptural quote this year, though I saw plenty of "Keep Christ in Christmas" and "Christ is still welcome here" signs.

And I look at those self-appointed generals who lead this "war" — such as Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson, whose doorsteps have seemingly never been darkened by such purportedly "Christian" virtues as humility, forgiveness and charity — and wonder how they've managed to pass themselves off as champions of a religion whose tenets they so blatantly and consistently ignore.

Ah, well. At least it's over for another ten months or so.

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Nicely put.
Posted by Lisa on 28 Dec 2005 18:32