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Do They Know It's Hanukkah?

There's more than one "happy holiday" for Christians this season.

Ted Olsen | posted 12/03/2007 08:49AM

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The Year Conservatives Saved Christmas | We bullied stores out of "'Happy Holidays.'" Hooray? (December 7, 2006)

Censoring Christmas | Public Christmas displays, like the Ten Commandments, are allowed—as long as they don't mean anything religious. (December 1, 2003)

Other Tidings columns are available on our site.

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Linda

Posted: December 12, 2007 2:37 PM

I am tired of everyone telling Christians they can't say Merry Christmas in the last couple of years and this article continues the P.C. theme. It's P.C. instead of J.C.! How about some tolerance for the Christian tradition from Secularists, Buddists, Jews and others for a change since our culture is so "tolerant." Isn't this why we are buying presents? Have some guts and speak up you Christians. Get radical or get eradicated by a pagan cultural tsunami!!

Ali Goold

Posted: December 12, 2007 8:21 AM

In response to some of the more negative comments made....I thought that this was a really thoughtful and interesting article. I don't think it was about 'putting us in the mood for Christmas'. Instead, reminding us of the kind of Messiah that we believe in. Jesus never forced peoples hand. As a Scot (which is still a part of the UK!), we don't have the same national debate about whether to say 'Merry Christmas' or not - but Christmas is largely a secular celebration these days, with very little thought for Jesus. So please don't be thinking that Britain is better just because we still utter the phrase 'Merry Christmas'! Also our scoiety does give a lot of thought to other religions. In public schools, our teenagers study religion form a neutral standpoint, whilst also studying a variety of moral issues. 50% of this is Christianity whilst the other half is about learning what other religions believe. The focus is not to proselytise but to inform.

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