[lit-ideas] Re: Christmas Trees
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:17:23 -0500
Christmas isn't a religion holiday anyway. There was no Christmas as we
know it before Clement Moore's poem Twas the Night before Christmas and I
think Dickens Christmas Carol too. It's now a fundamental part of the
economy, or so they say (I don't know how much of that is myth). There are
no references in the Bible for Jesus's birthday. Dec. 25 was picked I
think because of Mythra's birthday and possibly other reasons. The
Christmas Tree is also the Festival of Lights, bringing the light indoors
during the shortest days of the year.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 12/17/2005 3:32:46 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Christmas Trees
>
> But notice what's going on here, the Left and
> Right of it.
>
> The Right wants to whip the "Christians" into an
> ignorant majoritarian frenzy to score voting
> points. The Right is using a seasonal symbol
> that's only marginally Christian to advance its
> agenda.
>
> The Left wants to support the destruction of
> tradition and its replacement by global corporate
> Newspeak. The Left is using "inclusiveness" and
> fear of theocracy to advance its agenda.
>
> Both use false dichotomies. Right and Left ignore
> the fact that atheists have Christmas Trees and
> may also enjoy the tradition associated with it.
>
> IMHO, what's really at stake is Western cultural
> identity. Tradition versus global corporate
> identity. Gramsci versus De Tocqueville again.
>
>
>
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