Fenster writes:
When tree trimming this year I dispensed with iPod Christmas songs and just put on Pandora. I was about to set up a holiday station when I noted Pandora just started up with holiday songs by default. Well, who says there’s a war against Christmas?
But about a half hour later I asked the family what was missing. They didn’t immediately get it. Then my wife said: Jesus. They eventually played one song with a vaguely Christian theme (Carol of the Bells–still not religious but nominally a “carol” and not about snow or good cheer or whatever).
I’m secular and don’t care and don’t go on about Christmas being obliterated. But it is true that there’s a common denominator quality to the culture that leaves that baby Jesus out in the cold once again.
Blowhard, Esq.
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Fenster
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As so often happens, when cultural conservatives complain about something, they are usually not seeing nothing. They may exaggerate, in fact they often do, but, as in this case, there is usually some fairly solid basis for their complaints. And it’s not just the “common denominator” factor, although there’s certainly some of that. You and I, Fenster, can probably remember a time back in the 50’s and 60’s when the culture was even more “common” but emphatically included Jesus. Interesting.
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Heck I remember when Fulton J. Sheen had a show. On a network, even, before narrowcasting!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_Worth_Living
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