Christmas around the world

John Hinderaker takes us on tour.

Noteworthy:

"Going to services on Christmas Eve, I was struck once again by the vitality of religious faith here in the U.S. The church was packed, and positively teeming with children. Not just children, but babies--at one point a guy in front of me turned to his wife and said, 'There's a baby boom going on here.' These remain the two most fundamental respects in which we are distinguished from our European cousins, and the two main reasons why our future is so much brighter--the persistence of religious faith, and the belief that children are assets, not just liabilities."

I was struck by the exact same thought upon attending Christmas Eve services yesterday at Lawndale Baptist Church.

During the corporate services on Sundays, most of the younger kids are downstairs at Lawndale's excellent children's ministries program, and are not immediately noticeable unless you enter and exit the church from the children's downstairs wing. For the Christmas Eve candlelight service, they were together with their families in the worship center, and the visual impression of family was unmistakable.

Hinderaker is right.....our children ARE assets.

The secularists and "progressives" know that too. That's why the struggle to neutralize the political , social, and economic indoctrination children receive through government social services and government schools is so important.