Much like the Colbert link I posted a few days ago, I hope people have this sort of thing in mind when saying "Keep Christ in Christmas." I'm skeptical that keeping Christ in Christmas is little more than a slogan designed to prove something to people who say it, but Richards provides many great bits in this essay to cure any holiday cynicism.
He closes his essay with the following:
In a certain terrifying and beautiful way, God calls on man not to be comfortable, but to be great. I say again, not to be comfortable but to be great.
To split the darkness with kindness even if it seems pointless at the time. Even if it seems the dark cannot ever be overcome.
Then again, Christ born in a manger quite miraculously overcomes it all. That's what Dostoyevsky spoke about when he said, "beauty will save the world!"
(Oh, some think it fanciful, but I believe it.)
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