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Silent Night – a miracle in the making : Comments
By Warwick Marsh, published 24/12/2010One song more than any other embodies the qualities of Christmas and has been there to prove it.
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Silent Night certainly is a catchy string of sentiment for those inclined to relinquish their grasp of reality in favour mawkish make-believe. Indeed it's maddening the way such contrived sentiment affects one; I'm often disposed to tears over sentimentality I ought to find contemptuous. But we humans tend too easily to be suckers for sentiment and ceremony we know we ought to hold in contempt.
So sorry to be a humbug, but HUMBUG!
With six kids I've often been an unwilling (indeed appalled) witness of Carols by Candlelight, but though I still have two-year-old twins, never again!
It's hard to say which carols are worse, the ones devoted to consumerism and celebration for its own sake, or the religious crap. Certainly it's no place for a thinking person.
I wonder if this missionary author, like his brethren I've heard about, consider aboriginals possessed by the devil?