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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Zefram: [QB] [QUOTE]I've seen many idiotic bumper stickers that read "Jesus is the reason for the season", which is laughable since Christmas was not a real holiday in december untill relativly recently and Hanukkah predates it by several hundred years.[/QUOTE]Well, Christmas (whose name means "Christ's Mass") was declared as December 25th in 350A.D., which predates the whole Islamic religion by over 200 years. Also, Hanukkah was set up as a celebration after the Mosaic law was written and thus is a relatively minor religious holiday compared to Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur, which Israel was commanded to celebrate in scripture. In modern Israel, it's not even a government or official business holiday. The reason why it's as big as it is in America is because of its proximity to Christmas and its tradition of exchanging gifts (which obviously makes it marketable). [QUOTE]Ignorance at work. This "religous backlash" Christian people sometimes (lately) percieve? It's a knee-jerk reaction to coordinated efforts by the Right to shove Christianity down the general populace's throat.[/QUOTE]First of all, the most recent American Religious Identification Survey shows that 77% of Americans self-identify as Christian, thus a good majority of the American population shouldn't feel like Christianity is being shoved down their throats. Second, Christians merely want it to be acknowledged that the Christmas season is about Christmas, which is a celebration of Jesus Christ. To take a religion's holiday, whether you believe in it or not, and to neuter it of any of its meaning and signifigance would be an insult to any religion. If you were take the most sacred of Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement), in which Jews seek to atone for their sins against God, removed any mention of God and called it "Self-Reflection Day", I'm sure millions of Jews would be upset. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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