We moved from Washington state to northern Michigan and are having to get used to saying Merry Christmas again. Everyone says it to us.
Try the Chicano part of town, Dennis.
I have noticed slightly fewer decorations in my neighborhood.
That’s kind of a weird article. If you move to Los Angeles, don’t expect everything to be just as it was in south Brooklyn.
If you want to see Christmas decorations in Brooklyn, they are still there, believe me! But Dennis apparently put on airs at some point in the 70s or 80s and Brooklyn wasn’t quite doing it for him any more, so he move to a place the whole point of which is that it has no cultural ties of any sort to anything. Move back to Brooklyn, if you can afford it.
I think part of this is that our culture has sort of tired of the whole thing. Just like people now fly in pajamas. I don’t celebrate Christmas if I can get out of it. I’m not into santa, lights, the tree, the presents, etc. I see every day the same. Every day I celebrate Jesus’ birth, death and resurrection. I don’t need a special day to do it and I DEFINITELY don’t need to be a part of the secular christmas celebration.
Christmas lights just seem like a heck of a lot of work for no real purpose. I’ve felt that way my entire adult life. That is what makes Clark Griswald so funny.
Several Decembers ago Mr. Mercat and I visited our son in Boston. This is the only year he was not going to be home for Christmas. We saw very little in the way of Christmas decorations in the city. We drove out to Concord (shot heard round the world) and I guess I expected more decorations there.. suburb of Boston now. But no except for one block downtown although there was a nice museum display of Christmas trees based upon children’s books. So I had about decided that the town ordinances forbid decorations until we headed back into town and one of the nice big houses with about two acres of front lawn had every decoration you could imagine including giant inflated snow globes and flashing Christmas trees. I loved it. I wanted to stop and tell them that I loved it but Mr. M and our son wouldn’t let me. They are no fun.
Soon you’ll be ordered to celebrate Ramadan or die
We have to be careful not to display our traditions and heritage where they may be seen by the rapugees flooding our country since the majority of them are mussies and their feelings might be hurt.
Prager lives in La Canada Flintridge across the street from a friend of mine.
There are a Lot of decorated homes in his area, but it isn’t really Los Angeles either.
Good article, Mr Prager!
Thanks for posting this one !
I don’t think it’s secularism at all. I think it’s multiculturalism, with America being flooded by immigrants from all over the world. Many of them aren’t Christian, and even those who are Christian simply don’t celebrate Christmas the way we’ve come to accept as “normal” — i.e., the Germanic/Anglo-Saxon tradition.
I think that’s the weather not secularism. LA has always been notoriously thin on Christmas decorations, hard to remember there’s a winter holiday coming when the weather is in the 80s.
These days, there are much fewer people keeping up that tradition and ironically it is the lower middle class blue collar neighborhoods that still put up the best displays with all the multi-color. In upscale yuppie neighborhoods, any displays are limited to the "clear white" lights which are nice to look at but rather blah. Multi-color lights are looked upon by these people as "low rent", you know, only put up by the kind of people who would eat at Applebees and buy their clothes from Wal-Mart.
I would like to see Christmas decorations make a come back.
Can’t say the same for where I live. Christmas lights and decorations galore on the houses around here.
As many, or more, than ever here, in Godless, Secular Sonoma County.
I think the author is either out of ideas or caught in a time warp.
Drab and no color, reminds me of some of Hillary’s pantsuits.
I love the colors of Christmas.
This year in western NY (Trump Country), there have been more Christmas displays than I have seen in many years. Elaborate ones. Also, I have seen a number of HUGE Trump signs, still up in support after the election. It is like everyone is celebrating a new world.
My daughter and I think there are more decorations this year in San Jose, California. The Willow Glenn part of town has always been festive, but seems much much more this year.
I love the lights!
Where we live in SE Virginia (Gloucester County) the majority of homes near us have some lighting displayed. It ranges from the traditional single candle-style light in each window to full-scale yard displays. And of course, in Newport News Park is the Christmas drive-through. The displays are breathtaking. So... no gray secularism taking over here.