Quite. He was Jewish only in the ethnic sense of the word. I merely commented that those songs were NOT written by a Christian (which you cannot deny), and that they appear to be intended to distract from the Christian nature of Christmas and Easter (a reasonable opinion). You brought up conspiracies, not me ... don't try to put words in my keyboard. Since you bring it up, though, I'll say this: I don't think Irving Berlin thought much about the social effect of his effort ... he was just writing what sold in New York City ... and quite by accident polluted the rest of America with his drivel. The idea that he was deliberately engaged in a grand conspiracy is laughable.
Funny you say that and imply that he was anti-Christian too. Think less about who sold and more about who bought; they knew what they were buying after all, and it is way less “poisonous” when compared to the real drivel thrown at us by the left-wing establishment even going back to Berlin’s heyday.
Jewish only in the ethnic sense of the word
Perhaps intended to distract his audience from Christian faith, or perhaps he just couldn’t warm up to beliefs that he did not hold, so did the best he could to write a secularized Christmas song for the sake of his lord and savior the dollar bill. The latter explanation is the most likely. The effect it had, well...gay marriage, anyone? The notion of writing songs to which scantily clad women dance around obscenely and suggestively with men on a stage is really anathema to both Judaism and Christianity. The notion of writing a Broadway melody that reflects faith in anything remotely Christian or Jewish is almost impossible to imagine. It’s like dreaming of a bloodless Ramadan.
“Bah, humbug!”