Something I have loved this Christmas season: Cars, trucks, and vans sporting antlers on the front windows and a red nose on the grill/fender. It makes me laugh every time. :)
Something I have not loved this Christmas season: Vapid Christmas carol lyrics that are ridiculous and stupid.
My un-favorite at the moment is from "Here Comes Santa Claus." It comes right after the part where it talks about how Santa doesn't care if we have broken our toys and how he loves us anyway. "Santa knows that we're God's children," Mr. Sinatra sings, "that makes everything right." It is probably not Mr. Sinatra's fault that these lyrics exist, but it is his fault for singing them.
I would just like to ask Mr. Sinatra how a fair, just anthropomorphic personification who keeps a list of naughty and nice kids and gives lumps of coal to the naughty ones and presents to the nice can be the same one Mr. Sinatra is describing, a watered down being who forgives all and doesn't care how we treat each other.
I know, I know. The song is really just to reinforce the lie of Santa Claus when small children ask why Johnny-the-evil-bully-next-door gets a jillion presents every Christmas even though he tortures squirrels and the neighborhood children, but that's not a lie I ever believed or intend to reinforce. Ba-humbug.
I guess some of my irritation is misdirected here from my frustration that even Christian parents lie to their kids about Santa and wonder why their kids are easily confused in their thinking about Jesus the same way (Jesus is love, so He doesn't really punish bad and reward good) (?!).
As a tangent, kids tend to love those stories where good defeats/punishes evil; they recognize something inherently right and just about that dynamic. Just saying.
Anyway, do you have any "favorite" vapid Christmas song lyrics (or whole songs) you'd like to share?
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