Douglas
Todd is one of my favourite Vancouver Sun columnists. You may have noticed that
I quote him quite often in this blog. Well, he did it again with an interesting
article on Christmas, this time about the “war on Christmas.”
Though most of us think of opposition to
Christmas, especially its public expressions, with the help of an Oxford don, Todd tells us about a war that’s been going on for centuries. It is inevitable,
he writes, that there should be war of some kind against such a large global
celebration with its public expressions. It is not the specialty of today’s
secularists or atheists.
To
avoid copyright problems, I present you with Todd’s by means of its URL:
This
being “Boxing Day” in Canada or “Tweede
Kerstdag” or “Second Christmas Day” in my country of birth, this will be my
last post dealing with Christmas issues for this season. However, the effect of Christmas, that is, the birth of Jesus Christ, will continue
to permeate these posts. From beginning to whenever these posts are concluded,
the reality of Christ will underlie every single one of future posts, though He
will not be mentioned by name in most.
In
distinction from secularists and liberals who want to reduce the scope of
religion to the private and personal, I define religion “wholistically.” Religion, in terms of faith and commitment,
colours all I do. That, by the way, is true of everyone, including those secularists
and liberals; they are just so ignorant about religion that they do not realize
this about themselves and, very funny actually, deny this about themselves. Can
you imagine someone being so blind to his own self?!
Well,
be that as it may—and it is!—enjoy the Todd article and be enlightened about “war
on Christmas.”
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