[HANASHIR:7828] Re: Christmas is NOT an American Holiday

[Eric Simon <erics...>]

At 04:02 PM 1/5/01 EST, LSalvay (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
>Sharon,
>It's interesting how Christian America can be so seemingly naive about the 
>fact that Christmas is indeed NOT an American holiday, but a religious one 
>(Santa and his elves aside -- and, Santa is after all a "saint" -- how 
>"secular" is that? ).

May I dissent?

I think that Christmas _is_ a de-facto American holiday.  We have a
national Christmas tree; we have Christmas stamps; and Christmas is a
federal, state, and local holiday.  Schools are off.  Municipal services
are stopped.  (And there are football games!).  If that's not an American
holiday, I don't know what is.

For whatever it's worth, my children, who go to a Jewish day school, had
school on December 25.  I thought it was a powerful statement, in many ways.

-- Eric


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