I don't like to get pissy, but this backlash against our original beef with Christmas becoming "Santa Claus and gifting" instead of baby Jesus's b-day is a little ridiculous. Wasn't it enough to shorten it to Xmas. Replacing Christ with a tilted cross (X) is rubbing it in a bit (who says the Jews don't control the media?). I guess we should neuter all holidays to secular motifs. We could have zombie bunnies for Easter to keep the undead (back from the grave) theme. Does recognizing a religious holiday constitute a break in the separation of church and state? Who cares?
Have you ever tried to sing O Holiday Tree? Feliz feriados? Blue Hanukkah? White Kwanzaa? It's funny that we celebrate giving gifts to children to avoid the previous tradition of groups of young men going from house to house demanding alcohol and food. Christmas is one of those big bags that we keep stuffing new things in to please everybody until it won't mean anything to anyone. My kids think it's about Santa rewarding their behavior for the year because that sounds like a good idea when they're being bad.
Not effective: "God sees what you're doing and you'll regret it when you die."Effective (first couple of times): "Santa is going to bring you a big pile of dog poop if you keep doing that."
Believing in Santa Claus is just one step away from believing in Jesus. He's watching you all the time. He's magic and can bring you good stuff or bad stuff and he lives some place far far away and you can't go there to check it out. Don't look on Google Earth.
This (Xmas) war would be a lot better if we could use our guns.
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