The disappearance of Christian imagery from Christmas reflects a wider dumbing down of societyHallmark is the most traditional of British greeting card makers. It produces the pictures the elderly buy for their grandchildren and vice versa. There’s no nudity or jokes approximately sex and alcohol,just old-fashioned images of robins, Santas, or snowmen and ice skaters. The most traditional images of all,however, occupy virtually vanished.
Hallmark is offering 376 Christmas cards this year. By my count, and only five are devout: three featuring Mary and Joseph in the steady and two Madonnas with child. Admittedly,Hallmark’s best-seller is called “little angels”, but they are simpering cherubs in a picture that carries no reference to the Christian story.
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Source: guardian.co.uk