You just don't ballroom dance to any Christmas carol. And Silent Night seems even less appropriate.

It reminded me of when I was in grade school and used a Christmas carol to try to explain to my younger brothers what Spike Jones did to a song. My mom heard us and came in to quietly explain that it wasn't right to treat carols that way.

I guess her attitude made such an impression because she wasn't super religious. After we kids were all in grade school, she and my dad just sent us to Sunday School and did not attend church. It was my dad's mom who was a decades-long staple of the 'old ladies Bible class,' as she called it. But that was just something she (born a few yrs after the Civil War and growing up in a sod house in western Nebraska) did as a matter of fact. And maybe partly because her 1st husband had been a minister. He died young, leaving her with 2 small boys to raise (my dad's older half-brothers). I don't remember her ever talking about him.

my mom always remarks how they never, or very very rarely, show a nativity scene, or church Christmas services.

I think that for them is just setting their generic love stories against the magical background of snow, Christmas trees, and a million Christmas lights. It's their formula, and it really works for them.

But if that is the way they want to do things, they should stick with wintery Christmas songs such as "Jingle Bells" or "Let is Snow."

Those songs are appropriate for their kind of Christmas movies.

Even though I haven't gone to church for many years, seeing people dance to those carols bothers me.

was taught to never applaud hymns, but I don't recall being told not to dance to them.

I saw that movie and yeah, people dancing to Silent Night seemed mighty peculiar.

Especially Silent Night, which I don't like very much anyhow because it's so slow and dirgelike, so unless you pep it up a bit, it would be weird to try to dance to.

It's not a great song to dance to, though, agreed.