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More Than an Economic High

Our whole society ... is focused on the celebration of Christmas. With the excessive commercialism which begins in our country immediately after Halloween (once it started the day after Thanksgiving), with the secular gaiety and extravagant glitz, with the sickening efforts to sanctify profit-making, the "Reason for the season" (that's the by now too-commonplace cliche among evangelicals) is ignored more often than not. The mind-boggling mystery of God-in-the flesh tends to become a mere stimulus for our economy.

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