Jesus the Co-star?

I love driving in my neighborhood during the Christmas season to see it transform into a twinkling realm. This week I drove past a house displaying a giant blow-up Santa standing proud beside a sleigh. The jolly man bent to the left and right, hiding a quaint manger at the whim of the breeze. As the manger drifted in and out of view, I realized how this sight was a picture of our cultural relationship with Christmas.

Jesus is the reason for the season… but that’s not what I see displayed here, in the stores, or really in my own home. The story of a magical North Pole is hardly dangerous, but what does it mean when baby Jesus co-stars with a red-nose reindeer? In our culture, fictional characters mingle with historical figures, and we soon forget which stories are true.

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