Keeping Christ OUT

We SAY we'd like to keep Christ in Christmas. But we're in an internal war, and we often betray ourselves in favor of the culture to which we have ultimately hooked our wagon.

After years and years of submission to advertising and furthering ourselves as good consumers, us capitalists who consider ourselves Christ's followers have a nasty mammon habit that won't go away. Do NOT get me wrong. All economic systems are flawed. Capitalism indeed has a track record of providing the most freedom. But it also provides us with enough rope to hang ourselves and reject Salvation.

Taco Bell has a relatively new slogan LIVE mas, which to me looks competitive during the Christmas season. The word mas in Spanish means "more" we are told. So how come it's combined with the English word for live? They seemed to change slogans shortly after a Christian modified their old slogan, added to an homage of their logo, which read "Think Outside The Tomb" for an Easter message.

You're being paranoid, groovsmyth. Did you take the tinfoil icicles off your tree and make a hat?

I heard a perky CNN "news" tart say just prior to Christ's birth memorial, "Forget Christmas. We're about to have "Cliff-mas!" (in reference to fiscal cliff). She was attempting to show how irresponsible it was to take time off for such a day of commemoration with the grown-up business of REAL money being on the line. But she could have been a Tea Party so-called "conservative" for that matter because they're all about fiscal imperative instead of the so-called "social" element, which is the root cause of our reprobate status.

But this word play among non-believers - though showing irreverence to the true meaning of the Holy Day - is not the core problem.

It's the pretenders among us. After eating a "traditional" meal of surf and turf and exhausting other distractions, what does a person choose next to amuse himself on Christmas Day? It's time to "do Christmas" of course. That's shorthand for the true meaning of Christmas - opening the gifts. The Incarnation of the Creator of the world has become a verb, not for Salvation, but for material satiation. And there you have it.