As you celebrate Christmas (or as you enjoy the blissfully Christian-free streets of Seattle today,) remember that you're only enjoying this holiday because Kirk Cameron saved it for you in this year's hit motion picture* Saving Christmas.

And the only reason you know about Saving Christmas is David Schmader's brilliant review of Saving Christmas, which you should go read right now.

Some people, Kirk Cameron tells us, insist on remaining blind to the holiday's true purpose and holy meaning. I readied myself for the boilerplate screed about the war on Christmas, the secular humanism and multicultural interests strangling Christians' ability to openly celebrate the birth of Christ. But these were not the adversaries Kirk Cameron is concerned with. Kirk Cameron wants to save Christmas from his fellow Christians—specifically, those Christians tempted to dismiss Christmas as a parade of gluttonous materialism built on pagan idolatry that has nothing to do with actual Jesus.

Please, oh, please: if you haven't yet, go read the whole thing.

* The word "hit" here does not denote financial success, merely spiritual success.