Monday, December 05, 2005

The War on Christmas Continues

Some megachurches are closing for Christmas.

No shit, really!

Rob

Posted by Rob S. at 12:24 AM

3 comments:

Sharon GR said...

The church my family used to attend did this some years ago, too. It seems that most of the congregants came on Christmas Eve anyway, so the pastor decided to add an extra service on the 24th and close on Christmas. A lot of folks were upset by this- but most of them had always come on Christmas Eve anyway! They only did it for one year, and after that particular priest left they went back to having a Chrismas morning service- which, I'm told, is pretty sparsely attended compared to the several held on the 24th.

12/05/2005 11:22 AM
Rob S. said...

Honestly, it's certainly makes practical sense. But I just can't get over the idea of Jesus getting in the way of people's "family time." And I think that people who aren't willing to celebrate a religious Christmas themselves on Christmas day really have no leg to stand on when complaining that the "season" -- an artifical marketing creation -- has lost its religious significance.

Why doesn't MY birthday have a "season"? From Sept. 21 to Oct. 14, that's all I want. And milk and cookies put out for someone else (Ted Danson, maybe) on the eve of my birthday in every house.

12/05/2005 11:31 AM
Jeri said...

Yeah, the crap about the War on Christmas pisses me off. Complaining about "holiday trees" when the Christmas tree is a pagan symbol to begin with. To celebrate Christmas "purely" as a Christian holiday, no celebrating or decorating would be done until after the fourth Sunday in Advent (the period which would be observed as a time of penitence as intended), then the season of Christmas would be celebrated through January 6. No tree, no candy canes (gifts are OK, but only gold, frankincense and myrhh), no carols except hymns (and even then, only Advent hymns until Christmas Day), and absolutely no Santa.

But wait, that would ruin our economy and spell the end of materialism, the only thing more precious to this country than the babyjesus himself.

12/06/2005 12:48 PM

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