The Simple Yet Powerful Thing about Linus' Epic Christmas Speech Most People Have Never Noticed

Dan Andros : Dec 21, 2017
Faithwire.com

The imagery, of course, represents the hope of the Christian—that we do not have anything to fear, for God is with us.

[Faithwire.com] We've been watching it for over half a century, and one of the more poetic and symbolic moments of the epic Linus Christmas speech most people have never even noticed. (Screengrab/via Faithwire.com)

On December 9th, 1965, CBS aired the animated TV special "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and it was sponsored by Coca-Cola.

The entire special ran 25 minutes and had a production budget just a hair under $100,000. In today's dollars, that'd be about $750,000—still a relatively modest budget for this type of programming.

The feature centers around Charlie Brown's disappointment at the overall commercialization of the Christmas holiday. He eventually decides to put on a play to show everyone the true meaning of Christmas, and while everything in Charlie Brown's play doesn't seem to work out (including the now infamous skinny tree), Linus steps in to save the day and explain everything.

Most people have seen the wonderful speech, during which he quotes from the Gospel of Luke.

One thing most people, including this author, have missed every single time they watch this classic piece of TV history, is what happens when he recites Luke 2:10...

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