War On Christmas

Okay so I’ve been thinking on this “War on Christmas” thing. I posted my thoughts on the Xmas debacle, but this is a little different.

I think it would be awful if this group came in and stole our holiday. We’ve been doing it for hundreds of years at least. It’s part of one of the central tenets of our religion. For someone to gradually and insidiously take it from us by slowly layering changes to it over time, co-opting symbols and traditions for their own, and ultimately changing it’s name is just wrong. Eventually it would be unrecognizable and no one would remember our traditions.

I can’t imagine the kind of thought process that would cause someone to do that.

Oh… wait… this is all beginning to sound a bit familiar.

  • Nobilis

    Shh! Don't you understand?

    If the modern Christian church were to start actually acknowledging that it has power, rather than being an oppressed, vilified, marginalized minority, then the church would have to either acknowledge the depths of its hypocrisy, or else actually start living up to the Christian ideals of foregiveness and charity.

    By claiming to be powerless in the face of corrupt mainstream culture, they are free to ignore the fact that they are, in fact, one of the influences that's corrupting it in the first place.

  • sidfaiwu

    Hehe. The war on Christmas was won years ago by the retailers. All that's left are a few very minor boarder skirmishes near Greetingsland and Nativitia.

  • spiritualtramp

    Not much to argue with there.

  • spiritualtramp

    LOL.

  • decipheryourself

    You make it hard to lump you in with the pulpit-pounding Christian set. Curse you and your open-minded understanding!

  • Nobilis

    Shh! Don't you understand?

    If the modern Christian church were to start actually acknowledging that it has power, rather than being an oppressed, vilified, marginalized minority, then the church would have to either acknowledge the depths of its hypocrisy, or else actually start living up to the Christian ideals of foregiveness and charity.

    By claiming to be powerless in the face of corrupt mainstream culture, they are free to ignore the fact that they are, in fact, one of the influences that's corrupting it in the first place.

  • sidfaiwu

    Hehe. The war on Christmas was won years ago by the retailers. All that's left are a few very minor boarder skirmishes near Greetingsland and Nativitia.

  • spiritualtramp

    Not much to argue with there.

  • spiritualtramp

    LOL.

  • decipheryourself

    You make it hard to lump you in with the pulpit-pounding Christian set. Curse you and your open-minded understanding!

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