Churches Admit They've Lost 'War on Christmas' by Canceling Christmas Day Services
LatestChristmas falls on a Sunday this year, which, in my day, would’ve meant killing two birds with one stone and only having to go to church once this week. But not in 2011, The Year of the WTF. Rather than rolling out the red carpet for Baby Jesus’s magic birthday, some churches are actually canceling or scaling back services on Sunday so that their parishoners and clergy can spend the day doing more Christmassy things like opening presents, eating, and watching Wal-Mart commercials with The Nutcracker Suite playing in the background.
Quibbling over the accuracies of when Jesus was actually born or if he ever really existed or was a bunch of guys who were all doing similar things at about the same time in the same general geographic region aside, there’s no denying that, for practicing Christians, Christmas is generally thought of as, well, a religious observance. But maybe not so much anymore.