Yes, you read that right. I’m starting my own war against “The War on Christmas.” I’m pretty fed up with the notion that there is a “war” against Christmas. That “war” was lost decades ago, and it had nothing to do with a “liberal media bias.”
Let’s face it, even in the Church Christmas has become little more than a debt-laden consumer spectacle. Oh we try to spiritualize it with our nativity scenes and our Christmas Eve services, but by and large, the Church has bought, hook-line-and-sinker, into the consumeristic culture that is Christmas in America.
There’s a reason I can’t stand things like Focus on the Family’s new initiative to fight back against the evil pagans and their war on Christmas. Besides being ineffective, it completely misses the mission of the Church.
This kind of stuff only hurts our mission to communicate the truth of the Gospel. If you think people using the word Christmas somehow makes our materialistic holiday extravaganza more pure you are probably not paying attention very well. Boycotting secular businesses that do not exhibit the kind of behavior that we think they should is the last thing that an unbelieving world needs to see.
I give a loud and hearty “Amen!” to that.
What do you think?
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It is ridiculous.. the whole “keep Christ in Christmas campaign”. I don’t think he should have been put in it to begin with.
On a local Christian radio station: “We believe the words ‘keep Christ in Christmas’ are powerful”
Agreed. It not only misses the mission of the Church, it shows how we are more like the Pharisees than we would like to admit. We swallow a camel but strain a gnat.
Yet I have made comments like this before and all that has generally happened is that I am labeled “liberal” or “one of them.”