The moral and aesthetic nightmare of Christmas.

Slate by Christopher Hitchens | Dec. 15, 2008 (Opinion)

Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous? Full Story »

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 by Stephen Selman - Dec. 16, 2008

For an opinion piece with serious insight and wonderfully searing language, Chris Hitchens will never let you down. A mild piece, he nonetheless presents his opinion with his usual stunning clarity. He quickly puts typical "winter solstice" celebration into perspective.

Reading a Christoper Hitchens piece is one of the simple pleasures of this short life. His line about our circumstances being "exactly the same" rings most true with me. It's folly not to recognize the total religious (and by religious I mean truly spiritual) void in which most of us celebrate these mid-winter weeks.

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