Morgan Lee, a reporter for The Christian Post, interviewed me for a story on the so-called “War on Christmas.” Â Here is a taste:
Holiday trees. Seasons Greetings. Carols devoid of religious references. Is there a “war on Christmas,” as some cable news commentators and politicians believe?
John Fea, a Messiah College history professor, does not deny that there has been a shift in how Christmas is celebrated in the United States in the 21st century. But as he looks back into the country’s past, investigating arguments by conservative political personalities like Sarah Palin and Bill O’Reilly calling for a return to the United States’ “golden age” of Christmas, he is not convinced that such an era ever existed.
Fea, who recently authored Why Study History?, a book he hopes will convince Christians to delve more deeply and critically into the past, pointed to the earliest days of Americans history to illustrate the various ways that the holiday’s meaning has been distorted.”I would argue historically that Christmas in the sort of truly Christian understanding of the idea—that Jesus Christ came in the form of a man—that has never, never in American history been the primary motivation for why people celebrate Christmas,” Fea told The Christian Post.
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