Is it me or has this Christmas season seen a new low in television and entertainment product specific to Chrismas?   Where are the Christmas specials with singers crooning carols?   Where are the series' Christmas episodes?   Is the secularists' long march through American society showing itself in less recognition of the season in entertainment?

Sometimes it seems that rather than celebrating the birth of God's son who came to redeem the world from sin, the focus is on the negative:  the homeless, the depressed, the poor, anything other than the reason for the season and the fact, in the year of our Lord 2006, Americans are experiencing more prosperity than at any time in human history.    The relentless commercialization of Christmas has without question drained some of the joy from people.   The relentless acquisition of material goods is no substitute for the sweet spirit God grants those who turn to Him through his Son, Jesus Christ,   For the Christian,  everyday is Christmas, and the Christmas season an opportunity for the whole world to understand what happened 2000 or so years ago in that little plot of ground in the Middle East.   

As prophesied by the apostle Paul, the world rejects the Way of love and hope God sent.    In fact, it seems to make some people angry  that Christians exist.   In the United States we witness continued attacks on Christianity.   The American Civil Liberties Union, which seems to exist to attack Christian faith and symbols, aid and abetted by a secular judiciary,  wages an unrelenting legal effort to scrup every sign of our Christian heritage from the public square.   Multi-culturalism and his offspring, political correctness,  assidiously wages war through the public schools, institutions, business, and entertainment to denigrate and marginize people of faith.  The logic of political correctness precludes holding that faith is supeior to no faith, or that one faith is better than another.   The road to Hell is populated with people afraid of  offending others by even uttering a "Merry Christmas."   Not to long in the future, to express faith in God, in Jesus Christ, will be deemed "hate speech."    Perhaps believers will be treated as mentally ill and confined to institutions?   In the meatime our soceity devolves further into amoral confusion and chaos.

What is called the civilized world is under attack by barbarism.   The barbarians have their own religion, which commands its adherents to convert the nonbelievers by violence.    There is no room for free will or deviation from what they called the  true faith.   How ironic that militant Islam and miitant multi-culturalism hold so much in common, each determined to stamp out and silence hose who deviate from the faith.    

In a world where this barbarism is advancing,  the greater the need for people to see take hold of the hand that God has extended to them.   Only a people of faith in the true God, reconciled to Him through His only begotten Son,  will have the fortitude to repel the attack of the barbarians.    People who lack faith in One greater than themselves will not sustain and prevail in a conflict with a foe who believes himself doing the work of his god, even it if a false god and cult faith.    

We need Christmas programs with people singing carols.   We need Christmas episodes of TV series, as bad as some of them are.  We need Nativity scense back on public squares.   We need carols piped through sound systems in stores and buildings.  We need to wish people "Merry Christmas" and not "Happy Holidays."  People need to be reminded, in ways both direct and subtle, that Christmas is about the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, born of a virgin, who died for the sins of the world.   Christmas is the time to reflect on the simple unassailable fact, that, in the words of the apostle John, "For God so love the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life."