Dear editor,
News shows recently showed that atheists in the Northeast have sponsored new billboard signs that say, “Make Christmas great again, don’t go to church!”
Interesting conclusion.
Now, as I watched the interview with the atheist, I picked up the following insights:
- The atheist was, first of all, calling out Christians for their ebullient observation of all the seasonal rituals and traditions that temporarily raise Christ’s birth to overwhelming importance. All of this comes to culmination by leaving home and participating in a Christian church ritual. Then, Christians go home to participate in the real human Christmas love experience.
- Apparently, this Christian ritual season interferes with people focusing on the joy of shopping together, planning seasonal parties together, spending arm-in-arm time with each other, and then lovingly sitting around their Christmas trees to see what exciting gifts and presents they will open and enjoy from one another.
- The bottom-line question relates to “Is there a God?” In America, it’s even a harder question: “If there is a God, which God is it?” American atheists apparently have made it simpler: “Since there is no God, no complex choice needed. So, let’s just enjoy the Christmas season!”
- Yes, Santa and Satan use the same letters for their names, but if no God, then no Devil either, right? Hell of a conclusion.
Reminder: If there is a God, and if Christ is that God and Christ-mas relates to him, then honoring Christ at Christmas with a church service might be a good thing.
JIM MOORE
Pace
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Challenging atheists’ view on Christmas