Posted by
KsReaganite on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:46:18 PM
Admittedly, KsReaganite has never been particularly fond of the so-called Holiday Season. The
The belabored family oriented atmosphere created by television stations, stores, and indeed in many homes themselves, smack of an attempt to portray what we feel we should be but are too chicken to admit we are not. We like to imagine ourselves as a society where children are taught right from wrong growing up in two parent families and nurtured by schools that impart education, churches that impart morals, and governments that help, rather than hinder, parents bring up children with their own values. Of course, none of that is exactly the case, no matter how much the neighborhoods are alight in Christmas illuminations and how many times we see fuzzy warm Christmas classic movies of the 1950s. The grand story of the birth of the Prince of Peace has been reduced, in true American style, to two catchy and annoying phrases that everyone utters to everyone on the streets, workplaces, and malls: “Are you ready for Christmas yet?” and “Finished all your Christmas shopping?” Of course, I am not discounting the nicely appointed Lutheran, Episcopalian, and Methodist churches in the suburbs where trendy “Holiday” services take place the day before Christmas and well dressed men and women hum and haw as some guy or gal at the pulpit talks about ending the war in Iraq and saving the ozone layer.
Am I ready for Christmas yet? Well, as soon as they put Christ back in Christ-mas, I will be. Until then, let me limit myself to wishing all the readers a Merry Christmas.