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...most people in this country, the annual celebration of Christmas is a highly anticipated and treasured tradition. The reason for the existence of Christmas, which is commonly understood to be a celebration of the birth of Christ, has its origins in Christianity. But according to separate reports from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York and Fox News, while only about 77 percent of Americans identify their religion as Christian, 96 percent of the people in this country celebrate Christmas each year. Ultimately, that means that around 80 percent of non-Christians are actively participating in what...
...addition to the celebration of Christ, the Christmas season in the 21st century also means a number of other things. To name a few: a long winter/Christmas vacation for everyone, Christmas movies and television shows that everyone is exposed to, and huge sales in stores throughout the nation that are advertised to (you guessed it!) everyone. So rather than just an expression of religious beliefs, Christmas has become a distinctly American tradition. Obviously then, the pipe dream of continued cultural purity surrounding Christmas is one that many would do well to abandon...
...Christians celebrate this sacred holiday actually don’t even have any explicit connection to the birth of Jesus. Rather, traditions such as Christmas trees, Yule logs, giving and receiving gifts, and possibly even the date of December 25 itself arose out of pagan celebrations that pre-dated Christ altogether. Meanwhile the figure of Santa Claus actually arose out of a Dutch folk tale that was originally unassociated with the nativity. So much for always keeping focus strictly on the reason for the season...
...sure, there certainly are a number of strictly religious traditions that go along with the Christian observance of the holiday, such as attending church on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day or prayers of thanksgiving for God’s gift to the world in the form of Christ. However, these are not the traditions that secular and non-Christian individuals have taken up as their own for their celebrations, so it’s difficult to see where the problem with the widespread celebration of this holiday lies...
...emergency room remained quiet for a moment, but outside a wail of grief went up from one of the soldiers who had rushed their comrade from a nighttime battle in Ramadi to the base hospital. "Jesus f---ing Christ!" the soldier yelled, falling to his knees. A second later several soldiers and Marines from Camp Ramadi were also kneeling with their arms around him as he cried. They stayed on the ground for a while, huddled together in the swirl of dust kicked up by the vehicles that had come throughout the day bearing other American and Iraqi casualties from...