This week's Understanding the Times radio show hosted by Jan Markell, presents excerpts from the story of Holocaust survivorf Anita Dittman, who was a converted Christian but spent time in a concentration camp anyway, It's a story of eremdembption and hope so it's good for the Christmas season. Another theme to keep the holidaty alive for us, along with the Messiah and the Star of Bethleheme and Christmas carols and all that I'm also pursuing this year.
U gave ti adnut ut I have to admit it feels like lying in a way to emphasize these things or to try to hkeep the holiday alive at all because of the way the world has been going. It feels like a denial of reality, even an escape. But on the other hand, whatever helps to keep the dying culture alive is probably a good thing.
Certainly a holocaust story is a reminder of how evil can break out in this fallen world, and even the most happy outcome of such a story doesn't make it a beacon of hope for the culture, all I mean is that it is being presented as a Christmas story for its hopeful themes, its miraculous elements and its happy outcome, it's no feel good marker of the holiday in itself. I'm sure that's clear enough but I felt I needed to ssay it here.
Christ is in the story and he is the point of Christmas.
