“Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.”
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.