Any religious holiday is worth celebrating in my book, for all religions address the great questions about life and death and man?s place in the universe and how he ought to conduct himself.
That statement is why America is in the state that made it worthwhile for him to write the article! Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places does not sound like, Your god shall be my god, and my God shall be your god.
The practices of the other gods are detested by Israel's God. Make up your mind. Those people are not breaking the law WITH RESPECT TO the other gods when they kill and loot and rape. Only with repect to Israel's God -- His statutes.