[FoRK] "Where do beliefs come from daddy?"

[Luis Villa]

On Dec 15, 2007 4:30 PM, Tom Higgins <tomhiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
> And lest we forget, what does Santa have to do with chirstmass anyway?
> In fact why is Jesus' Bday done up in lae December in the first
> place....talk about turtles all the way down...

My paternal great-grandmother apparently objected to my grandmother's
plans to celebrate Christmas on religious grounds. The 'war on
Christmas' is actually a very Christian thing.

pretty good article on some of the history here:
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-religiontoday1214dec14,0,2910292.story

I had no idea, but apparently celebrating Christmas was actually
illegal in much of New England at one point.