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How Christmas Became Christmas
The annual Christmas controversies are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the origins of Christmas and its basic tenets. This video — adapted from the book How Christmas Became Christmas by Nathaniel Parry — explains that the holiday has as much to do with the earth’s rotation around the sun as it does with the […]
The Little-Known Link between Halloween and Christmas
By Nathaniel Parry Thirty years ago, in October 1993, a full-length stop motion production was released that changed the way millions of people think about Halloween and Christmas. The Nightmare Before Christmas, based on a poem written by Tim Burton that was inspired by Clement Clarke Moore’s “T’was the Night Before Christmas,” follows a character named […]
Overcoming Christmas Controversies with Historical Realities
By Nat Parry In what may be the first salvo in this year’s War on Christmas, Disney+’s series The Santa Clauses has resurrected a familiar trope in laying the blame for the supposed lack of holiday cheer on political correctness run amok — specifically an alleged aversion to saying “Merry Christmas” in our modern, multicultural society. With […]
Ben Carson’s War on Christmas, Sort Of
Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon turned Republican presidential contender, may have a skeleton in his closet that could disqualify him from leading the United States of America in the eyes of millions of his supporters. No, it’s not the fabrications of significant chunks of his life story that he’s told, nor his opposition to Muslims being […]
The ‘War on Christmas’ and other ridiculous holiday traditions
It’s that time of year again. Time to dig out those decorations, deck the halls and trim the tree. Time to brave the stores in search of that perfect gift. And of course, time to turn on Fox News Channel and crank up the outrage over the “secularist” assault on the “sacred” Christian holiday celebrating […]
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