14th December 2008, 10:59 AM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-s...-christmas
This article traces it back to fears of jews and immigrants... Hmm...
To be honest, I have no idea why people are terrified of some sort of evil banishment of Christmas. People celebrate it year after year. The worst is when people think that phrases like "Happy Holidays" somehow are threatening. The intellectual dishonesty is striking when they try to say that people are being PREVENTED from saying Merry Christmas, which is simply not the case.
It's also worth noting that the very same people who tend to fear Christmas are usually against marketplace regulation, until the stores they visit stop catering to their own whims, then suddenly they want them regulated to force them to say Merry Christmas and if there aren't two Santas for every Manora, there's evil afoot!
Oh, Merry Melodies everyone!
Interesting since "Christmas" going back a few centuries was actually opposed by the church as a "heathenistic celebration", Christmas in the 1800's was more about lewd debauchery then the family friendly affair we see today, Christmas was a pagan holiday that was retrofitted into a christian one, Christmas was banned in many states untill the late 1800's. Like Halloween there was a Sanitization effort that changed it into what we see now.
The "they're stealing Christmas bullshit is ironic given the history of Christmas.
The american Christmas is heavily influenced by German winter solstice customs,Santa is Odin mixed with St. Nicholas.