Gauging How the 'Christmas Wars' Are Faring in Britain

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And how are the so-called "Christmas wars" going on this side of the water? Badly, I think. If the atmosphere in America is full of unseasonal strife, thanks to the ACLU's quest to close down every Nativity crib on the eastern seaboard, there is a very different tone to the religious vs. secular debate in Britain. If the mood seems much quieter, it is because the battle is more or less over, at least as far as Christianity is concerned.

Let me give you a small example. Driving into the West End last night, I had plenty of time, while sitting in traffic to look at the billboards. The most common of them, by a large margin, was an advertisement for a TV comedy series called "Shameless," a raucous show about a spectacularly dysfunctional underclass family. "Shameless" is something of a cult hit over here ("Packed with sex, drugs, gratuitous violence, love and scams," declares the publicity material, which makes the program sound more like a night at a Democratic convention).

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Gauging How the 'Christmas Wars' Are Faring in Britain

In the billboard publicizing the special festive edition, the characters are depicted in a parody of Leonardo's "Last Supper" set in a cheerless pub. Drunken mayhem has broken out. In the center of the picture the bearded head...

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