EU war on Christmas?

It’s that time of year, so we have to have “war on Christmas” stories.

I don’t like it when things that are not wars — no bombs dropping, etc. — are called wars. E.g., the war on poverty.

The “war on Christmas” is a similar exaggeration, but it’s also undeniable that there are people who want to downplay our Christian heritage and make Christmas and Christianity less prominent in the culture.

This year’s example seems to be a little tussle in Europe. Some bureaucrat from the “Union of Equality” in Brussels issued a memo recommending toned-down language. (It’s a fair bet that anything coming from a group called the “Union of Equality” is going to be nonsense.)

This prompted a fairly stiff rebuke from the pope, and even from Macron in secular France. Macron has gone on to criticize “Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States.” I.e., wokeism.

6 thoughts on “EU war on Christmas?”

  1. A mere incident. Christmas makes too profitable in Europe for that sort of thing to resonate.

    It has little to do with Christianity anymore. I don’t know this for certain, but it has most likely grown in popularity in some countries over the decades. My dissertation advisor told me that when he began his professorship in the Netherlands in the mid seventies, Christmas was just a feast day for Catholics. St. Nicholas was actually a much bigger things. But now they are both hyped up there.

  2. Interestingly, just yesterday I read an article that stated a new poll found the belief in the “war on Christmas” has increased nationally. https://www.fdu.edu/news/belief-in-war-on-christmas-bigger-than-ever-nationally/

    “More Americans believe that there is a “war on Christmas” this holiday season than in years past, with nearly 4 in 10 (37 percent) Americans now saying that politicians are trying to remove the religious elements of the Holiday season, up from 29 percent in 2013. According to a new national survey from the FDU Poll, this increase is driven by Republicans, Trump supporters, and, surprisingly, Hispanic Americans.”

    Given the “war on Christmas” could be considered an exaggeration, maybe a way to ease tensions concerning it is to do what has suggested about racial tensions… stop talking about it. Maybe it’s better to create an identity that supersedes and intentionally suppresses that type of trivial stuff.

    1. In a red state they won’t let you stop talking about it, along with Caitlyn Jenner and a host of issues that don’t interest me very much.

      1. True. It’s interesting how some believe the remedy is to stop talking about it for some social issues but not for others.

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