You Can’t Make Me Read This Crap

Sarah Palin wrote a book. Apparently, it is unintentionally funny. I don’t know that there is a more boring topic than the War on Christmas, unless maybe you want to talk about the true meaning of Christmas and how it has been perverted. The oldest gospel, the Gospel According to Mark, doesn’t even have anything about the birth of Jesus in it. That was tacked on much later. In fact, the Gospel According to Mark originally ended without a resurrected Jesus. His corpse was just missing. They added the ending you find in today’s New Testament later on. But none of that is important to the folks who keep wailing about how Christmas is being secularized and turned into a generic holiday season. I think it’s great that families get together once a year to share gifts with each other, but I don’t think it has anything to do with the birth of Jesus. I also don’t think that egg-laying rabbits and fake green grass have anything to do with the death and resurrection of Jesus. But I never hear people complain about the War on Easter.

Why is that?

Maybe it can be a subject for Palin’s next screed.

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.