AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Close
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29208018_ITM" title="Facts and information about Christmas vs. holiday: how did America, a nominally Christian nation, get to the point that a cheerful "Merry Christmas" is seen as intolerant and our gifts are placed under "holiday trees"?(CULTURE WAR)">Christmas vs. holiday: how did America, a nominally Christian nation, get to the point that a cheerful "Merry Christmas" is seen as intolerant and our gifts are placed under "holiday trees"?(CULTURE WAR)</a>
Close
Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from The New American are available.
Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds
Christmas vs. holiday: how did America, a nominally Christian nation, get to the point that a cheerful "Merry Christmas" is seen as intolerant and our gifts are placed under "holiday trees"?(CULTURE WAR)
"The President and Mrs. Reagan extend to you their best wishes for a joyous Christmas and a peaceful New Year." In 1982, that was the message appearing on President Reagan's Christmas card to thousands of GOP faithful. In 1983, the "greeting" changed: "The President and Mrs. Reagan extend to you their warmest wishes for happiness at the holidays and throughout the new year." Thus did the Reagan White House stop sending Christmas cards and start sending "holiday greetings."
This semantic change in the official greeting from the White House, probably unnoticed at the time, was not the beginning of the "War on Christmas." That war arises from the enmity to all ...
Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
- That common era: personal reflections on teaching late antique...
- Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought Janowitz, Naomi September 22, 1995 700+ words
...Antique period when early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism were emerging. I remain engrossed in the first centuries of the common era, a period when Jews read the biblical stories with new questions, much as we do today, and developed stunning and influential...
- Common Era
- Reference information from: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary January 1, 1988 700+ words
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 Common Era Christian Era Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- 2000 years and beyond: faith, identity and the 'common era'.(General)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Bowie, Fiona June 1, 2004 700+ words
...PAUL (ed.) with DAVID ARCHARD, TREVOR HART & NIGEL RAPPORT. 2000 years and beyond: faith, identity and the 'common era'. ix, 227 pp., illus., bibliogr. London, New York: Routledge, 2003. (paper) There is a danger with projects...
- Christmas.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight Micoli, Fabiano January 1, 2008 700+ words
...Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." The word holiday originally...which is precisely what Christmas is. You could even respond...The motivation to change Christmas greetings is likely the same...Christ indeed did establish a common era for all of humanity. In other...
- Myth of the first Christmas brings forth great meaning.(Culture, Et Cetera)(The...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 7, 1998 700+ words
...about four years before the common era. Why the discrepancy: Our...deconstructing and reassembling the Christmas myth. Early Christians showed...spurred interest in creating a "Christmas" celebration. . . . What really happened on the first Christmas? The time of year is unknown...
- Christmas not linked to pagan holiday.
- News wire article from: United Press International December 16, 2002 700+ words
...modern world the idea of dating Christmas to Jesus' death. But he...church, still celebrates Christmas on Jan. 6. "The notion...early as, say, 100 of the Common Era. In other words, it isn...article "How Dec. 25 Became Christmas," McGowan points out that...
- Guest Column; Ebenezer Scrooge is alive and working for some secular...
- Magazine article from: The Report Newsmagazine Ulrich, Mariette December 16, 2002 700+ words
...titled The Aliens' First Christmas. It featured a space-age...American wife was explaining Christmas to her extraterrestrial neighbour...Beatles are no longer alone--Christmas, too, has become "bigger...letters "BCE" (Before the Common Era) instead of BC (Before Christ...
- SECULARISM BLURS DIFFERENCE IN HOLIDAYS.(RELIGION)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) December 17, 1994 700+ words
...Jewish; we don't celebrate Christmas,'' she would reply. A...American would not celebrate Christmas had never crossed their minds...the first centuries of the common era. All too often, someone...really not going to celebrate Christmas?'' I suspect that my wife...
