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12 Songs of Christmas: Snoopy's Christmas [1]

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Date: 2022-12-23

Each day until Christmas, I am going to write briefly about a Christmas song I enjoy. Because I can, that's why. And I an unabashed corny dork.

I feel the title of this song is a little misleading. It is not a story of a Snoopy helping Woodstock find the true meaning of Christmas, or Charlie Brown teaching Snoopy not to be so commercial. Nope. It's about a dog, a Sopwith Camel, and the Christmas Day that the Red Baron let the little dog live, knowing that they would try and kill each other on Boxing Day. On the one hand, a tad misleading for a children's song I feel. On the other hand, completely on-brand for a Charles Schutlz production.

It also weirdly highlights how conditional modern Christianity has become. The two opponents are fine with the idea of going right back to killing each other the day after Christmas. One of the reasons the commander son both sides came down so hard on the original Christmas Truce is that they didn't want any actual Christian feeling to get in the way of their war. It would do no good for people to think that the fellows on the other trench were real people, deserving of the same Christian charity as the man next to you or you yourself. And perhaps, given that, there might be a better way out of this political mess than wholesale abandonment of several of the commandments.

Still a great song though, and some Christian spirit is better than none.

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