irony.

top 3 ironies (scandals?) this christmas...

#3
Town Halls allowing "nativity scenes" (celebrating the birth of Jesus, uh... CHRIST-mas) but only allowing a manger, and animals (no mary, no joseph, no shepherds, no JESUS!)

#2
neil diamond (a practicing Jew) singing Christian Christmas songs (glorifying... uh.. JESUS!)

#1
the message that the Creator of all, the God of heaven and earth, has come to visit earth, to save earth, and comes in the form of a dependent little child, born of poor parents, in a small town, in a manger out back, and his first visitors are societies lowly rejects from "the norm".

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth... And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known."
Gospel of John 1:14, 16-18.