All the uproar about the 'war on Christmas' has missed the historical reality. The Puritans outlawed Christmas Day celebrations! Our American ancestors didn't celebrate Christmas as we do.
It wasn't until the early 1800s that Christmas became accepted as a day to take off work and celebrate. In fact, Alabama was the first State to make it a legal holiday, and that was in 1836. It was Ulysses S. Grant who, as President, declared Christmas a federal holiday in 1870 (the same year that the Catholic Church at Vatican I declared the Pope to be infallible).
The folks on Fox News said that Americans have always celebrated Christmas and made public displays of it. Not so. Unhistorical. Hysterical. It is consumerism that drives Christmas these days.
I'm beginning to think that people who call themselves Christians should stop celebrating Christmas in December and choose another time of the year to celebrate the birth of Rabbi Jesus in order to remain unentangled by the merchandizing frenzy.
It's enough to make Jesus puke.
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