This Christmas reached an all-time low
Another Christmas has come and gone with this year’s ads and promotions reaching an all-time low.
Beautiful Christmas carols were reworded with inane product commercials. Christmas traditions were replaced with buy-one-get-one-free campaigns, doorbuster sales and advocacy for neighbor-envy purchases. And there was the sad, notable absence of outdoor nativity scenes, which were replaced by blow-up cartoon characters. I guess the new rules of accepting diversity, tolerating others’ beliefs and goodwill to all do not apply to those practicing traditional Christian Christmas customs.
Also notably absent was a Merry Christmas message atop our Dec. 25, 2015, copy of The Tribune.
On a positive note, the atheists, secular and easily offended or intolerant did not suffer any disturbing vistas, images or messages during this “holiday season.”
Sandra Rakestraw, Atascadero
This story was originally published January 12, 2016 at 9:53 PM with the headline "This Christmas reached an all-time low."