Why Christmas Consumerism Might Not Be the Villain

Villains despise Christmas. Scrooge found it a poor excuse to pick a man’s pocket. The noise, noise, noise drove the Grinch so mad that he wanted to steal it. The White Witch kept Narnia always winter and never Christmas.But it’s not just the bad guys. Often those of us who should love Christmas the most are the most disenchanted with it. We sympathize with Charlie Brown and his frustration with people allowing the glitzy and temporal to replace the meaningful and eternal.Christmas can seem like