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Merry Christmas!

Or happy holidays. Whatever you prefer. It’s not like I have enough readers to exclude anyone on the basis of creed.

Lest there be any doubt, I am not speaking ironically here; this is most emphatically not a post endorsing the reactionary “war on Christmas” meme that’s been drummed up by Bill O’Reilly and others on the far right in recent years. (Although I have not in fact heard much about it this year… perhaps most Americans really are getting tired of the divisive culture war nonsense?)

As I write this I’m waiting to attend a Christmas Eve service in a couple of hours. (With my girlfriend’s relatives… but on alternate years we do the same thing with my own relatives.) And that’s the only time of the year that I set foot in a church. Read the rest of this entry »