Reply to "Watched Polar Express movie this year?"

palallinOGR Forum Member

We have the film, watch it every year out of nostalgia.

But I don't like it all that much.

The animation doesn't bother me, but the story does. Its message is Believe! Believe in what? Santa? Hogwash. Santa is the stepchild of this culture's rampart consumerism: Gimme, gimme, GIMME! Santa is the salesman of conditional love: be good (in some vague fashion) and you prosper. Be naughty, and you get coal. And, just when you start to realize that Christmas is not about accumulating stuff, along comes Santa's minions to kidnap you for a nice brainwashing session.

None of that has anything to do with Christmas.

I am well aware that this position is unpopular, but the First Gift of Christmas was not a sleigh bell but rather the incarnate Word of God, who was given to us because we cannot be good enough.

12/8/199:12 AM

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