Kathryn Joyce "Defending Christmas"
Kathryn Joyce’s “Defending Christmas” at Soma Review is a brief disproof of John Gibson’s The War on Christmas. She talks about mass-market books being “assembled like cheap plastic toys on conveyer belts from materials of questionable integrity,” and refers to Gibson’s as:
a dubious hash of rumor, sketchy news reports, sentimental memoir, and the fake populism and persecution complexes that color most conservative missives in today’s culture wars.
The review gets harsher from there, noting that:
the only truth The Christmas Wars touches upon is the current state of religious and political division in our country, and the inanity of so many evangelical Christians that parades as piety. But of course, this is an industry book: intended to perpetuate division, not examine it.
As with Bill O’Reilly’s error-ridden lamentations, Gibson’s book of Christmas tales illustrates not an oppressive secular minority, but an arrogant Christian majority that portrays its persecution complex as actual persecution.