{"id":115,"date":"2009-12-11T01:11:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T01:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2009\/12\/keeping-christ-in-christmas.html"},"modified":"2009-12-11T01:11:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T01:11:49","slug":"keeping-christ-in-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2009\/12\/keeping-christ-in-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"#109 Keeping Christ in Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/keeping%20christ%20in%20christmas\/xmas6325.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xmas6325.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/xmas6325-thumb-371x325-10019.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"371\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>Christian culture is alarmed by all things politically correct. They say the increasing use of the phrase <i>happy holidays<\/i> is an affront to keeping Christ in Christmas and it&#8217;s just one more sign that this country is headed for hell in a handbasket.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"x,as325.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/keeping%20christ%20in%20christmas\/x%2Cas325.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"214\" height=\"325\" \/><\/span><br \/>The chance that Christ could actually be somehow removed from Christmas would seem impossible, yet Christian culture is urgently concerned it could happen. If anyone has a problem with their saying <i>Merry Christmas<\/i> they insist that person should respect their constitutional rights, but when other people say <i>Happy Holidays<\/i> the evangelicals don&#8217;t take too kindly to it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xmascollage.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/keeping%20christ%20in%20christmas\/xmascollage.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"534\" height=\"300\" \/><\/span><br \/>Rather than show some Christlike goodwill to people with different beliefs than they, Christian culture tends to go on the offensive so that they can feel like they&#8217;re standing up for Christ. But the Christ of the Bible wasn&#8217;t threatened by disbelief. For his followers to take up this cause with such rabid fervor seems to be a contradiction.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xmas5jpg.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/keeping%20christ%20in%20christmas\/xmas5jpg.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"320\" height=\"257\" \/><\/span><br \/>For a bit of seasonal fun, wish the evangelical in your life a happy holiday or perhaps a blessed Kwanzaa.  If you really want to get their dander up, ask them what they think of the American Humanist holiday ad campaign. The intensity of their reaction is a definitive gauge of how invested they are in the notion that Christ&#8217;s deity is inherently tied to a seasonal formality.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xmas3325.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/keeping%20christ%20in%20christmas\/xmas3325.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"310\" height=\"325\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian culture is alarmed by all things politically correct. God forbid you say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,102,27,242,26,243,244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-go-america","category-holidays","category-keeping-christ-in-christmas","category-perceived-subversion","category-political-correctness","category-secularization"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>#109 Keeping Christ in Christmas - Stuff Christian Culture Likes<\/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\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2009\/12\/keeping-christ-in-christmas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"#109 Keeping Christ in Christmas - Stuff Christian Culture Likes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Christian culture is alarmed by all things politically correct. 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