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In 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...

Author: By Ashton R. Lattimore | Title: The Reason for the Season | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

Ultimately, it shouldn’t really matter to anyone who is celebrating Christmas or why. The way and the reason that an individual and his or her family decides to observe the holiday season is something personal that does not affect anyone but themselves. For non-Christians, the secular...

Author: By Ashton R. Lattimore | Title: The Reason for the Season | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

(2 of 4) The Pope hardly qualifies as a great uniter if that means "seeking ties with only those who invoke the name of a single god." In matters of faith and religion, prescriptive morality should be avoided, as it is the root cause of hostility and divisiveness. There can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christianity, Islam And The Pope | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

Sentimentalists will object here that shopkeepers’ motives for polluting their storefront displays with tinsel, holly, and plastic candelabras are an expression of holiday good cheer, perverse financial considerations be damned. That’s a very pleasant thought, but it defies common sense. This isn’t...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: A Money-Making Christmas | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

Neuhaus made the most important point of all when he said, "Mosques proliferate throughout cities in the West, while any expression of non-Islamic religion is strictly forbidden in many Muslim countries." No matter what moral failures we find in the "Christianized" West, people have the freedom to exercise their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 18, 2006 | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

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