Catholic and Enjoying It!
Here’s something you Noo Yawkuhs might be interested in!
Could there be a happier combination than Chesterton and Christmas?
No! Emphatically no!
By the way, please don’t send me “War on Christmas” angst in which I’m informed for the umpteenth time that some huge godless capitalist concern is no longer as interested in Christmas as a tool for engaging in Mammon worship as it was when you were a kid. Godless capitalism is what it has always been: godless capitalism. It has *always* longed to maximize spending and minimize our interest in things higher than this world. The task of keeping both Christ and Mass in Christmas does not belong to American industry, but to the Faithful. One can certainly roll one’s eyes at the naked worship of Mammon. But when you do that (especially if you are a Culture Warrior Conservative), you should take a little responsibility too and chalk stuff like that Gap ad up, not to evil socialist atheists engaging in some nefarious leftist War on Christmas that has nothing to do with “conservative family values” but to good solid godless capitalism that is just trying to figure out how to shake the Money Tree more efficiently in a postmodern and dechristianizing culture. Being disappointed and perpetually vexed because exploitive corporate entities you naively associate with childhood, Christmas and mistletoe are actually exploitive corporate entities is a waste of time. Learn to separate out what is essential to Christmas from what has, in our culture, learned to parasitically feed off Christmas and retain your joy. That Gap ad is as much a testimonial to the value of Rush Limbaugh as it is to the values of post-Christian 20-something relativists.
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