What would you think of someone calling himself a ballet dancer, a pianist, a chef, or a computer programmer who had never studied or applied through practice what he had learned?
No matter when it is celebrated, no matter the irrelevancies surrounding it, no matter the commercial flurries and their excesses, nothing has really silenced the Christmas message that God is with us.
Christ Jesus proved that a right understanding of God as divine Spirit, Truth, Life, can uplift us to the spiritual elevation of thought and action necessary to overcome every discord that confronts humanity today—sickness, sin, poverty, hunger, even death.