I SAW JACKIE MASON KISSING SANTA CLAUS by FRANK RICH

I SAW JACKIE MASON KISSING SANTA CLAUS by FRANK RICH

The good news today is that the great 2005 war on Christmas, the conflagration that launched a thousand op-ed pieces and nearly as many battles on Fox News, is now officially over. And yes, Virginia - Christmas won!

Secularists, Jews, mainline Protestants and all the other grinches failed utterly to take Kriss Kringle down. Except at those megachurches that canceled services today rather than impede their flocks' giving and gorging, Christmas is alive and well everywhere in America.

Last night NBC even rolled the dice and broadcast "It's a Wonderful Life" in prime time. With courage reminiscent of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's defiance of Stalin, the network steadfastly refused to redub the final scene's cries of "Merry Christmas!" with the godless "Happy holidays!"

As Michelle Goldberg wrote last month in her definitive debunking for Salon, there was in fact no war on Christmas, but rather "a burgeoning myth of a war on Christmas."

read the whole thing:
http://select.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/opinion/25rich.html?hp
or free here:
http://edstrong.blog-city.com/frank_rich_the_god_racket.htm

And yes, I do believe in Christ, his mission, and what he tried to teach us. That's me personally. I don't care about anyone else.

And I was so appalled today watching Jesus of Nazareth for the 500th time. Right after the scene where Jesus is baptized in the Jordan by John the Baptist a commercial came on. It was for the '2nd Most Popular Video Game in the Country', Mortal Combat 2 (or something like that, I forgot the name, but it was version 2). It was a war game. A perfect simulation of the killing of people by sniper, from the air, and in combat.

That's had me in shock all day. It was on the History Channel.