Several notorious shock-and-awe TV talk show hosts widely known for contrived anger to prop up their ratings have tried to create a war over Christmas.
Use of the word "holiday" rather than "Christmas" in advertising and on greeting cards is fuel for their artificial fury in a pointless effort to prove that God is dead, and it's all the fault of godless liberals.
To use a Scroogism, humbug.
Christmas is everywhere—in advertising, in Christian church services, in song on radio and television, in greeting cards, on the lips of people exchanging Christmas wishes, and in people's hearts.
Where Christmas and the spirit of the season is lacking, it's apparent, is in the hearts of Grinchy television naysayers who prefer anger and words of war, and who work on new ways to embellish their ugly notoriety.
Christmas, as a holiday as well as a religious observance, is something universally understood and celebrated, if not in the Christian manner, then in spirit.
One impressive example: Jewish families, who celebrate Hanukkah this time of the year, have been unsparing in their tradition of volunteering to man food kitchens on Christmas Day for the needy and homeless. The volunteers illustrate an understanding of the Christmas spirit of giving and also free Christian brethren to remain with families on a special day.
Call it what you will—Christmas, holiday, Yule, St. Nick's Day, Christmastide—far more important is how we live in brotherly peace and goodwill.
