…or at least cash in the followers money.
Forty-two weeks of ignoring the religious right and eroding the rights of our blessed constitution and here comes Santa! I just got done watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving day advertising campaign/parade. There is this weird tacit undertone that says we need to feel guilt about a whole bunch of stuff that happened before we were born.
The audience is mostly Boomers, Gen X and their kids. The only atrocity my generation has participated in is general apathy toward the things that are important. That’s a whole other topic.
The major sponsors of NBC’s broadcast pay for the message. They pay NBC to have us pay attention to their message. What is their message? Get up early tomorrow and throw yourselves headlong into debt and buy a whole bunch of crap that you don’t need so you can impress a whole bunch of people you can’t stand. This is not the Christmas message.
Two thousand years ago, a child was born. The event was significant enough to have Maggi show up from Persia, the most educated country in the world. The heavens moved and angels sang. Why? Why did Herod kill every child under 2 after he got the report from the Maggi?
He believed and he knew. The child grew up and Easter happened. Many people think Jesus is irrelevant. Many people think he had some good things to say. Many people in him. We also believe him.
Do you?
That is the Christmas message. Enjoy your turkey a football.
