Some people know, Christmas is by far my favorite holiday of the year. I love this time of the year, I love the festive atmosphere, the decorations, the lights, the cheer, the generosity, the food, the egg nog, the music (especially the old religious carols), I love getting gifts and playing Santa (not in costume) to friends and family. I just love Christmas.
Because of this, I really cannot stand it when the whole "Culture War" rears its ugly head and people start to get all exclusive about Christmas being "their holiday". What do I mean; well I was in a fine mood until I came across this piece of self-righteous trash. Once you get past the rather transparent anti-Semitic diatribe, you get to the core of the "opinion piece", that so many people today actually believe:

"Christmas is a Christian holiday -- if you're not in the club, then buzz off. Celebrate Yule instead or dance around in druid robes for the solstice. Go light a big log, go wassailing and falalaing until you fall down, eat figgy pudding until you puke, but don't mess with the Messiah."

The tremendous irony here is that not only this moron think that Christmas should be for "true Christians only" in his religious version of Jim Crow nostalgia fantasy, but he actually thinks that Christmas is and has always been purely Christian holiday.

( Journey now through a super-brief history of Christmas. )

Tags: america, christianity, christmas, history, holidays
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