Ya think?
Pope Benedict said Sunday that Christmas festivities have been polluted by consumerism and suggested that assembling the Nativity scene in the home is an effective way of teaching the faith to children.
Yeah, that'd be nice -- keep your annoying nativity scenes to yourself and spare the rest of us yet another year of them. It's not like we don't know what they look like by now, if you catch my drift.
And about that crass commercialism?
"In today's consumer society, this time (of the year) is unfortunately subjected to a sort of commercial 'pollution' that is in danger of altering its true spirit, which is characterized by meditation, sobriety and by a joy that is not exterior but intimate," the Pope said in his traditional Sunday blessing.
Yeah, it really is irritating when total assholes turn Christmas into an exercise in marketing, isn't it?
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