{"id":230,"date":"2010-12-06T16:50:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T16:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/12\/109-keeping-christ-in-christmas.html"},"modified":"2010-12-06T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T16:50:29","slug":"109-keeping-christ-in-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/12\/109-keeping-christ-in-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"#109 Keeping Christ in Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christian culture is alarmed by all things politically correct. They say the increasing use of the phrase happy holidays<\/i> is an affront to keeping Christ in Christmas and it’s just one more sign that this country is headed for hell in a handbasket.<\/p>\n

 
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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 Merry Christmas<\/i> they insist that person should respect their constitutional rights, but when other people say Happy Holidays<\/i> the evangelicals don’t take too kindly to it.<\/p>\n

 
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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’re standing up for Christ. But the Christ of the Bible wasn’t threatened by disbelief. For his followers to take up this cause with such rabid fervor seems to be a contradiction.<\/p>\n

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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’s deity is inherently tied to a seasonal formality.<\/p>\n

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**This post originally aired on December 11, 2009, and warranted reposting just because.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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