Complaints about Christmas commercialization get tiresome. Barrett Duke of the Southern Baptist D.C. office responds in a recent column with a robust defense of America’s holiday, for all its faults.
Christmas helps to employ millions of people, in America and globally, about which upper crust critics of commercialization often forget or are indifferent. But “there is more upside to the commercialization of Christmas than that,” Duke notes. “During Christmas, the Gospel message is plastered across America. The very word ‘Christmas’ reminds people of Jesus Christ. Clearly, they aren’t getting the whole story, but it’s better than nothing. It gives us a good starting place to talk about all that Christmas means.”
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