In this week's film section, I wrote a thousand words about Kirk Cameron's amazing new movie Saving Christmas, covering how the film's tagline—"Putting Christ back in Christmas!"—sets us up for the boilerplate screed about how secular humanism and multicultural interests are strangling Christians' ability to openly celebrate the birth of Christ, but then the actual film takes us down this insane other path where Kirk Cameron spends an hour calling bullshit on his fellow Christians for not celebrating Christmas hard enough. From my review:

Finally, [the doubting Christian] addresses the general gluttony and gross materialism of Christmas, inspiring Kirk Cameron's most heartfelt speech of the film. Complaints about materialism are bunk, he explains, because Christmas is a celebration of God's spirit taking on a material form in Jesus. It's only fitting, therefore, that we give each other material things to celebrate his birth. As for gluttony (only technically a deadly sin), Christmas is our time to celebrate the most important man in the world, and God wants us to celebrate. "So get the biggest ham!" urges Kirk Cameron. "Use the richest butter! Make everything in your house point to Jesus!"

The film is filled with such made-up-on-the-spot "Biblical truths," and watching Saving Christmas provides a bracing view of the frantic rationalizations that make up Kirk Cameron's banana-friendly brand of evangelical Christianity. I can't recommend you watch the film, but I can recommended you get a basic taste of the insanity from the trailer: