This post was a little lonely, so I stopped by to pay my respects. Since you wrote it, the Crystal Cathedral went bust. Maybe the Saudis will buy it and fix it up more to their liking. Here in Lancaster, the creche is all the rage. Live creches, faux creches, creches where you have to pay a handsome fee to watch live camels and burros and a pretty blonde girl playing Mary with a 4 month old freshly birthed Jesus, equally Germanic. And then the preacher comes out and tells you what you already know, but with more drama.
It's too much noise for me. Too much sight, too much sound. (google sight and sound, Lancaster, PA for the punchline to that joke)