The True Meaning of Christmas

This "YouTube" clip was taken from "A Charlie Brown Christmas".  This animated tv special was aired  back in 1965, and was animated by the late Charles Schultz.  He was the creator of Charlie Brown and all the Peanut's characters.  This special was groundbreaking at the time because of a few reasons.  One, the animated characters' voices were of actual young children; this had never been done before.  Second, there was no laugh track; Mr. Schultz believed that the television audience was capable of figuring out when to laugh and when not too. 
What was also interesting was the controversy behind this episode.  Network executives from CBS were very much opposed to have Linus quote verses from the Bible.  In this clip, it is where Linus is standing on stage, by himself, and repeating the Luke 2:8-14 verse from the Bible.  Schultz stuck to his guns because he knew how crucial this part of the show's actual theme...Charlie Brown's search for the true meaning of Christmas.  Charlie Brown is lost in a world of commercialism, and lost the true meaning of Christmas altogether.  Worried that this decision to keep this part in was going to make the show a failure, it ended up being a hit and an instant classic.