Department of Rhetoric and Writing

The University of Texas at Austin

holidays

Illustrating Christ in Christmas

Disclaimer: This is not a religious post. I am not attempting to exorcize any religious figures from any primordially pagan holidays that may or may not have been reified through fourteenth-century religious traditions. I am not in any way interested in taking on the “War on Christmas.”

 

Keep Christ in Christmas.

 I was driving near the Texas State Capitol building yesterday, and as usual, there were protestors hovering at the end of the mall, some gossiping, some marching in halfhearted circles with signs that read “KEEP CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS!” I didn’t have time to snap a photo, but they looked something like this:

 Christ in Christmas Kids

Image Credit: Herald-Zeitung

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