Following up on my previous post. Last night I was one of a lineup of musicians playing at a folk music monthly concert. I was third in the lineup and pointed out that it was Winter Solstice Night and that the holiday season stretching from Oct 31 to Jan 15 is full of holidays for many religions. Two groups later, a singer announces that she is going to play a song that she thinks expresses the real meaning for the season.

I have no problem with the “Keep Christ in Christmas” slogans so long as its proponents remember it is an admonition to Christians, not the rest of the population (you can’t co-opt non-Christian Yule celebrations and then claim “Keep Christ in Christmas”). Furthermore, it needs to be limited to Christmas the religious holiday, and is not expanded to Christmas the secular holiday and the religious holiday of Christmas is limited to December 25.