Comments on: Christian Humanist Podcast Episode 7: Wars on Christmas http://www.nathangilmour.com/hardly/2009/12/christian-humanist-podcast-episode-7-wars-on-christmas/ Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:19:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: robert http://www.nathangilmour.com/hardly/2009/12/christian-humanist-podcast-episode-7-wars-on-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-5484 robert Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:30:42 +0000 http://www.nathangilmour.com/hardly/?p=3266#comment-5484 Good show this week. I come down with Farmer(?) in the end. We're best off just acknowledging that the "Christmas" some devote so much energy (psychic and rhetorical, at least) to keeping Christ in is a secular, rather than Christian, holiday. Focusing on it is at best a distraction from the real reason for the season and at worst delusion as to what that reason is. If we really want to keep Christ in Christmas it's going to require that we take up practices that are centered around Christ and, most likely, are made and kept very consciously distinct from and counter to the secular buying binge and mile-wide-inch-deep sentimentality. Btw, you all need to set up a site for the show. Probably generate more discussion. Good show this week. I come down with Farmer(?) in the end. We’re best off just acknowledging that the “Christmas” some devote so much energy (psychic and rhetorical, at least) to keeping Christ in is a secular, rather than Christian, holiday. Focusing on it is at best a distraction from the real reason for the season and at worst delusion as to what that reason is. If we really want to keep Christ in Christmas it’s going to require that we take up practices that are centered around Christ and, most likely, are made and kept very consciously distinct from and counter to the secular buying binge and mile-wide-inch-deep sentimentality.

Btw, you all need to set up a site for the show. Probably generate more discussion.

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