This year around the holidays I received many emails and saw many a post on Facebook, with the same overall message "Keep Christ in Christmas", and personally I find this well... outdated.
Many have their holiday traditions, and most of these traditions involve family. The holidays are just that. A time for family. A reason for us to stop what we are doing, to take time out of our always hectic lives and spend some time together. To enjoy the festivites of the holiday season, which seem to always come down to tradition. And traditionally for many of us, their is no religious practice during the holiday season.
Valentines Day originated from beheadings, now it is the holiday of love and chocolate I have yet to receive an email asking to keep the beheadings in Valentines Day. Halloween was a pagan practice to dress up as the dead so as to fool the dead who would walk amongst the living, again, not many postings requesting the dead to be kept in our trick or treating, now is there. Christmas may have originated from the story of the birth of Christ, but it has evolved, just as everything else has.
If you have faith and the belief in the holiday, then by all means, enjoy your religion. But remember that there are many of us out there who really do not believe that Christ belongs in Christmas. This does not make us terrorists, this simply makes us honest.
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