The American Spectator

p> HOLIDAY ON WHEELS br> Re: Patrick Hynes’s Keeping the Christ in Christ : /p> p>Most of the questions Mr. Hynes posed in the above referenced article also were treated by Mr. Mark P. Shea in his wonderful book By What Authority? He continues the wonderful apologetics work continued by our dear friend C.S. Lewis. br> — Andy Fuller /p>

Thanks to Patrick Hynes for a thoughtful article on the trivialization of Christ and Christmas in our increasingly materialistic world. Interesting that retail stores who depend most heavily on the celebration (read gift-giving) of Christmas for revenue, refuse to honor it with the salutation “Merry Christmas.”

One trivial correction. Unless my hearing is going bad, in our area the silly song in the Honda commercial is “We wish you a Happy Honda Day” and that wording is flashed across the screen at the close of the commercial.

p>I have solved the whole problem of secular brain washing of school children. Have already taught my three (well, almost four) year-old grandson to sing “Joy To The World,” “We Three Kings,” and “Noel.” I discovered this lack with my (then) eight-year-old grandson when I asked him if they were singing carols in their Christmas Pageant. First I learned it was not called a Christmas Pageant (it’s a Holiday Program) and the only “carols” were Frosty the Snowman and Jingle Bells. I told him “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” does not exactly celebrate the birth of Christ and set about teaching him all the carols, too. I see nothing amiss in telling a child his whole school is loony if they ignore the beauty of lovely hymns celebrating the birth of Christ. They are too busy making sure the tykes learn to respect every religion but their own.