Selling Christmas

We’ve become so tolerant that “Christmas” is taboo in much of the culture. In commercials, big business tells us that everything from electric razors to luxury automobiles would make great “holiday gifts” (tap-dancing around the plain fact that far and away the most people who respond to their ads are in fact buying Christmas presents). I don’t want to come off as another Scrooge, but what if next year the more than nine in ten Americans who believe in God, the roughly eight in ten who believe that Jesus Christ was born from a virgin and is God or the Son of God, or the millions who confounded the experts and made Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ a mega hit purchased only from those merchants brave enough to sell them “Christmas gifts”?