If you guessed, like I did, that it is the birthday of Christ – as in ‘Christ Mass’, you’d be wrong.
No sir, the True Meaning of Christmas is “Santa Claus” along with his delivering gifts to children “to make them happy”.
Permit me to explain.
Our youngest grandson – Felix, was over earlier today – he is but 18 months old – but old enough for cartoons – which I watched along with him.
(Just for the record, it is the first time that I have sat through kids’ cartoons since way back when – when Gordie the Pig was all the rage.) But I digress.
Today’s cartoon feature appeared on our Taxpayer funded Canadian Broadcast Corporation – CBC for short and when they announced that they were going to disclose the true meaning of Christmas I thought for a moment – a very slight moment – that ‘wasn’t that nice – to have this explained to Canadian Children on the very day before Christmas.
I then thought to myself ‘Oh Oh’ – this is CBC we are talking about …what exactly will they tell these youngsters?
It soon followed with the Santa clap trap.
I guess CBC’s motto is to get them while they are young.
This only serves to reinforce my Christmas Wish that CBC be defunded. If they are going to do such a disservice to the true meaning of Christmas – as least they can do it on their own dime and not yours and mine.
But this is not my only complaint at this holy time of the year – I also have a big problem with Christmas songs relentlessly played on both the radio and television. You know, those greats such as jingle bells and Rudolph the red nose reindeer.
That said, if I hear them played one more time, I fear I will be sick.
One guy even called in to say his favourite Carole was Elvis Presley’s ‘Blue Christmas’.
Whatever happened to the true Carols; the ones that up to recently had been sung for centuries at this special time of the year?
Silent Night, O Little Town of Bethlehem, the Huron Carole and so on.
They have all be replaced by Mummy Kissing Santa Claus.
Some say that Christmas is under-attack in this the 21st Century and to that I say humbug – it is not under attack, it has simply been neutered.
Merry Christmas to one and all. In the true meaning of the word.
As I see it…
‘K.D. Galagher’
As I see it…
