{"id":876,"date":"2020-12-19T22:21:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2020-12-19T22:21:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T22:21:45","slug":"the-secularization-of-christmas-and-the-so-called-war-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/19\/the-secularization-of-christmas-and-the-so-called-war-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The secularization of Christmas, and the so-called war on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When P&#038;C were lads, there was a lot more public display of religion. Over the ensuing years, public displays of religion have been under attack. <\/p>\n<p>It sometimes gets to the point that you&#8217;re committing a hate crime if you wish someone a Merry Christmas. I suppose that&#8217;s &#8220;mis-religioning.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The modern so-called &#8220;war on Christmas&#8221; is nothing compared to the traditional opposition to the holiday in America, starting with the Puritans. <\/p>\n<p>P&#038;C review some issues surrounding the holiday, including &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>* Was Jesus born on Dec. 25th?<br \/>\n* Where did Santa come from?<br \/>\n* Are nativity scenes accurate?<br \/>\n* Are Christmas trees pagan?<br \/>\n* When does Christmas really start?<br \/>\n* How did gift-giving get involved? <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/17260469\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When P&#038;C were lads, there was a lot more public display of religion. Over the ensuing years, public displays of religion have been under attack. It sometimes gets to the point that you&#8217;re committing a hate crime if you wish someone a Merry Christmas. I suppose that&#8217;s &#8220;mis-religioning.&#8221; The modern so-called &#8220;war on Christmas&#8221; is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/19\/the-secularization-of-christmas-and-the-so-called-war-on-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The secularization of Christmas, and the so-called war on Christmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}