Megachurches Closing for Christmas

Not really a funny subject, but a very sad capitulation to popular culture and sentimentalism, but this spoof at the Holy Observer is funny (link from Dominion Family, who got it from Izzy).

Even the folks at the Chicago Tribune get it better than the megachurch decision-makers. Here's how they describe Christmas Day:

the day set aside to commemorate the incarnation of God on Earth.

So this decision caters to those with happy and intact families...but what about the broken, lonely, and despairing. Who is there for them on the saddest day of their year?

As for individual families and their decision to attend of not, that is up to them. Dominion Family says it well, so I will quote her here,

The way I look at it, and that may be wrong, is that individual families may or may not be in church Sunday morning. Those families will have different reasons for not being there, some good, some bad. Some families may not be there out of conviction of one sort or another, even. But the church closings definitely say something about our culture and the state of evangelicalism.

This would never happen in Mitford...Father Tim wouldn't dream of it. He knows his catechism too well.

What is the duty of all Christians?
The duty of all Christians is to follow Christ, to come together week by week
for corporate worship...

Okay, getting off my soapbox now. :)