1.0 link 150258 <![CDATA[Is it OK to Celebrate Christmas, Even If You're Not a Christian?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-tarico/is-it-ok-to-celebrate-chr_b_150258.html I just love Christmas!" my friend Hannah confessed recently, "even though I'm appalled by Christianity." She sounded sheepish, as if loving Christmas somehow made her bad.

Poor Hannah. I understand her tone of apology. What Hannah is appalled by isn't the broad range of kind, thoughtful Christians in her community, but rather the thin cruel theologies that drive the Evangelical Right. People like Bill O'Reilly have claimed Christmas for their own -- deriding broader holiday traditions. "It's about Jesus!" They...

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