Keep Christ in Christmas
Today I saw a bumper sticker from one of the War on Christmas people that said “Keep Christ in Christmas.” This seemed pretty easy to make fun of. Have a cartoon of Jesus on the cross, with Christmas lights strung all over him, ornaments piercing his skin, and an angel on top of his crown of thorns.
I was going to post this to Idea Province, except I was afraid the idea was so obvious, it had already been done. Well, I found a way around this problem: I would check to see if it had been done.
If it had, I could at least say I had the idea independently, and can I get some applause for admitting I wasn’t the first? If it hadn’t been done, I would simply post the idea without commentary, never confessing that I had ever doubted the originality of my unquestionably unique idea.
On the first page of a google Image Search for “Keep Christ in Christmas,” I found an image that was kind of a reversal of my idea. Instead of treating Jesus as a Christmas tree, my competitor drew Jesus popping out of a Christmas tree, with the slogan “Keep Christ in Christmas” under it.
I’m not sure whose idea is better, but this one gets points for actually coming into existence. Then again, it loses points for being sideways. It also loses points for possibly being sincere. Yet it gains a ton of points for seeming sincere if it is in fact not sincere.
Sincere or not, it gains a whole slew of points for essentially giving Jesus a Christmas tree skirt. Yet the deal maker has to be the angels in the tree. One has a sombrero, one is Native American, and another is a Sikh.
So I’ll just go ahead and admit that Jesus in the Christmas tree wins.
4 years ago