The war on Christmas these days seems to have became a battle on two fronts. First there's the left-liberal attempt to de-christianise Christmas. Although I haven't noticed too much of this in New Zealand, it was clearly obvious when I visited Melbourne recently, where Christmas shop displays seemed to be cleansed of any nativity scene decoration. No doubt this is related to PC concerns about not offending Australia's larger Muslim population.
Secondly, there's the on-going right-liberal campaign to make as much money out of Christmas as possible, even if that means marginalising Christmas day itself. Most retailers now seem to have given up trying to get people to buy presents for the big day, and instead are encouraging them to hold onto their cash until the summer sales start on the 26th.
Hence we now have two Christmas celebrations - one on the 25th for the wealthy people, and a K-Mart-style budget Christmas on Boxing Day for the lower classes.
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Oh man, if you think Melbourne has been de-Christianised (as indeed it has), you should see Sydney! I had the dubious pleasure of spending much of the Christmas season there this year, and - save for a few still more-or-less civilised quasi-rural suburbs - any point of difference between Sydney and the Third World is now utterly coincidental. Except of course that certain Third World countries would display rather greater pietas.
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