Yesterday I got an e-mail from a relative which linked to a video produced by the group Focus on the Family protesting the exclusion of the name Christmas from the holiday catalogs of various retailers. In my mind, removing the name of Christmas from a holiday catalog works to separate the Christian holiday celebration the birth of Jesus from the modern, secular holiday of putting up lights and buying each other presents. It seems really strange to me that a Christian group would protest the dis-association of the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a commercial holiday, given that Jesus himself opposed commerce in the house of God. What is even more odd is that those traditions are pagan to begin with. So, you have Christians opposing the separation of pagan traditions from a Christian holy day and the commercialization of the celebration of the birth of the Messiah. Personally, I think it only cheapens the divine celebration to associate it with buying a bunch of crap we don't need to give to people who don't need it, especially given all of the poverty in the world.
But, what the hell do I know? I'm just a liberal, secularist anyway.
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