Art Carney, Academy Award Winner actor, in a Twilight Zone episode about Christmas.. He is a department store Santa who is a drunk, depressed about the pain and suffering of life. Somehow a miracle happens: he actually becomes Santa, his spirituality is consistent with the Christmas spirit. Anyway, it's a great episode, shows his acting ability. Reminds me of a time I took my sons to a Christmas service in Germantown Tennessee, the minister makes some comments about how some people" only attend church on Christmas. Really pissed me off; some marginally literate guy, I am sure intellectually shallow, has to INSULT someone who attends church on Christmas eve! The rest of the year, Mr. Minister, the church teaches us how we are born in sin (we pop out of the womb and we are sinners screwed!) and we hear about how god has sacrificed for us (hey, he can try being a human sapiens on earth!) and we are exposed to those horrible medieval hymns accompanied by an organ (only one way to play an organ and that is LOUD) because the organ used to be the loudest sound medieval people could ever hear (the sound of GOD). Christmas eve is the only time of the year that presents the ethics of Jesus of Nazareth - if it was Christmas year-
round I would attend church more often!
