Christmas defenders bloom better this year

A happy pseudo-Nativity season to you all!

Christmas haters and destroyers are a serious problem for civilization. The record would appear to show that people innately need religion. Every study done seems to indicate that having some improves life satisfaction and even physical health. In any case, it would be easier to change the law of gravity than to stamp this instinct out of people. Even atheists are taking to defending the holiday and its traditions against its numerous assailants.

For some reason, it seems there is more defending going on this year than usual. It's partly no doubt because the greatest musical radio station of our time, WMUU, has left the airwaves, leaving in its wake an odd mixture of truth and neocon nonsense called Conservative Talk 94.5. Two much-worshiped semi-hemi-conservative Jews -- Dennis Prager and Michael Medved -- take up most of its airtime. They never stop stumping for their own tribe, but have done surprisingly good work defending Christmas too. Whether this is how the station is going to be or it's merely the "bait" part before a "switch" phase takes up the rest of time, it's an unexpected nicety.

Other examples are all around us. There are even three Christmas-friendly links at the militantly atheist FreedomsPhoenix.com just now. Titles below -- visit the page for their actual links and much, much more.

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