{"id":2734,"date":"2009-12-24T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2009-12-24T01:21:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T06:21:30","slug":"on-a-non-religious-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2734","title":{"rendered":"On a non-religious Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, the New York Times<\/a> ran a piece on the slant of the White House’ Christmas decor. From the Times,<\/p>\n

But Washington is a city that likes its traditions, and Ms. Rogers has raised a few eyebrows by trying to bend them. When former social secretaries gave a luncheon to welcome Ms. Rogers earlier this year, one participant said, she surprised them by suggesting the Obamas were planning a \u201cnon-religious Christmas\u201d \u2014 hardly a surprising idea for an administration making a special effort to reach out to other faiths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A “non-religious Christmas”? Wouldn’t that be like having a Red Sox celebration in the middle of New York City? Hmmm. From FreeDictionary.com<\/a>, we have, for the word “Christmas”,<\/p>\n

1. A Christian feast commemorating the birth of Jesus.
\n2. December 25, the day on which this feast is celebrated.
\n3. Christmastide.
\n[Middle English Cristemas, from Old English Cristes m\u00e6sse, Christ’s festival : Christ; see Christ + m\u00e6sse, festival; see Mass.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Christian? Birth of Jesus? Christ? Mass? Certainly seems to be a whole lotta religion going on there.<\/p>\n

Well, it seems that Desiree Rogers wasn’t kidding as, per Breitbart<\/a>, none other than Chairman Mao made it onto a White House Christmas<\/span> Holiday Tree (as an ornament). And, to top it off (the story, not the tree), the Obama family will not be attending church<\/a> this Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

Change… you can believe in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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