Elderberries and the “Inflatable Christmas”
5 January 2007 2 Comments
This morning’s Elderberries comic strip (5 January 2007) — fast becoming one of my favorites — pokes fun at inflatable Christmas decor. Hopefully next year’s fad decor will be more dignified and worthy of the celebration of Christmas.
Perhaps this also speaks to how it is not just Christians who are addicted to kitsch, but American society in general. Nonetheless, I hope that Christians soon don a mantle of “visual responsibility,” setting a respectable and worthy visual standard for society. As Lynn Aldrich suggests in her review of Betty Spackman’s book on Christians and kitsch, we must be “inspired to see better.”
Have you seen an inflatable manger scene? I haven’t either, but can that be far behind?
I haven’t that I recall. However, friends of ours in Nebraska went looking for a manger scene for their front yard this past December and there was only one place in a city of a quarter million they found one purchase at all.