The Wittenburg Door is well-known for its ultra-sarcastic outlook on everything Christian, so I was surprised to find a rather insightful article on Christmas on their site yesterday.

From the article:

But most people who wanna fight about The Meaning of Christmas are Christians. And mostly they think we’re going in the wrong direction, that the true meaning is fading away, that even the name of Christmas is fading away, that it’s becoming a commercial holiday, a secular holiday, a corrupted tradition, that nobody cares about the church part of it, that all they care about is the gift-giving and the sentimental stories and the days off work, and the churches themselves are the worst, they don’t even have that many services because it conflicts with the football games, and another thing, and another thing, and another thing . . . And then there are those of us who believe that, every time Christmas becomes less Christian, there’s a victory for Christ.
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Before Christ you would not have had a public holiday where you were expected to pay attention to the poor, give things away, eat common meals, rest from all your cares, be as close to others as possible, put aside differences, laugh, cry, drink, toast, seek an excess of joy.