Popular culture is not the same as spiritual revival but the above illustrates Jesus' point that what lives in the heart of man is what drives him, not legislation. On these days, we have an opportunity simply to celebrate and preach the Gospel of free grace in a world so desperately in need of it. They are one of the few times when an unbeliever might still feel he can get away with going to Church without too much scorn from his neighbour. The world still knows something about what they are for - Christmas at least. Even if it is only by its soppy and ultimately blasphemous carol-playing in the shopping malls and its stupid little mangers and so on.
Sentimentalism dies hard in the human breast.
Let us remind ourselves and our fellow men and women of the greatness and goodness of God and be thankful and worship Him. At the very least, we must just quietly go to work in protest. I can't see too many of us doing that by choice. Since we are already working, I believe, within Scriptural boundaries, and certainly within confessional and Church Order boundaries, we can be as pragmatic as that. There is a difference, of course.