{"id":322,"date":"2010-12-14T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/12\/war-on-christmas-time-part-ii-christmas-vs-xmas-and-x-wings.html"},"modified":"2010-12-14T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T20:30:00","slug":"war-on-christmas-time-part-ii-christmas-vs-xmas-and-x-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/12\/war-on-christmas-time-part-ii-christmas-vs-xmas-and-x-wings.html","title":{"rendered":"War on Christmas Time, Part II: Christmas vs. Xmas&#8230; and X-wings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I already blogged about the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/12\/fun-friday-war-on-christmas-time-again.html\">War on Christmas&#8221; topic last week<\/a>, but here are a few more headlines that have caught my attention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/12\/AR2010121200103.html?wprss=rss_religion\">Mangers and &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; mingle in displays on Loudon courthouse grounds <\/a>(Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2010\/12\/pod-people-let-xmas-be-christmas\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+getreligion\/DmXm+(GetReligion)\">Let Xmas be Christmas?<\/a> (GetReligion)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hecRLRaRj2FJEN_q4yxT_KVi6v8w?docId=CNG.e1b53ed2c86c87f9656a8f35aaa22aea.351\">Argentine archbishop slams Santa Claus <\/a>(AFP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.orlandosentinel.com\/features-the-religion-world\/2010\/12\/13\/the-backstory-on-grandma-got-run-over-by-a-reindeer\/\">The backstory on &#8216;Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer&#8217; <\/a>(Orlando Sentinel&#8217;s Religion World blog)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In my own reporting, I&#8217;ve found a few new angles on the seasonal clash of the holidays: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/index.php?\/rnstext\/celebrating_christmas_before_dec_25_bah_humbug1\/\">conservative Christian argument <em>against <\/em>the Christmas season&nbsp;<\/a>(before Dec. 24, so as not to water down the Advent period of preparation for Christmas Day) and an upcoming story about whether Americans are celebrating December holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Solstice, etc.)&nbsp;in more secular ways or with traditional religious observances. <\/p>\n<p>Check back for that story, and share your thoughts &#8212; and any other&nbsp;suggested links &#8212;&nbsp;in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I already blogged about the &#8220;War on Christmas&#8221; topic last week, but here are a few more headlines that have caught my attention: Mangers and &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; mingle in displays on Loudon courthouse grounds (Washington Post) Let Xmas be Christmas? (GetReligion) Argentine archbishop slams Santa Claus (AFP) The backstory on &#8216;Grandma Got Run Over by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>War on Christmas Time, Part II: Christmas vs. Xmas... and X-wings? - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/12\/war-on-christmas-time-part-ii-christmas-vs-xmas-and-x-wings.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"War on Christmas Time, Part II: Christmas vs. Xmas... and X-wings? - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I already blogged about the &#8220;War on Christmas&#8221; topic last week, but here are a few more headlines that have caught my attention: Mangers and &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; mingle in displays on Loudon courthouse grounds (Washington Post) Let Xmas be Christmas? 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