Letters to the Editor
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Thank you for that
I didn't realize the ancestry of this assault on the First Amendment. The John Birch Society, and Ford's "The International Jew"? Whew.
It's also interesting to read, on the History Channel's website, that when we were undoubtedly a more "Christian" nation, you could celebrate the "traditional" English Christmas in Virginia, but if you had a yule log, figgy pudding and a wassail in pre-revolutionary Boston, it would cost you a five-shilling fine. So, in fact, the only assault on Christmas has come from other religions.
What these Babbits don't seem to realize is, the Christmas at Wal-Mart and the other frantic shopping malls are not a traditional Christmas, but one that has been hijacked by the proponents of commericalism. Before the Victorian era, Christmas was either a strictly religious day, or a time of drunkenness, kissing under mistletoe, and all kinds of hijinks. The letter from Wal-Mart, which got its author fired, is in fact true.