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71% of Americans celebrate Christmas as a holy day
RasmussenReports.com ^ | 12/12/2011 | staff

Posted on 12/12/2011 10:30:43 AM PST by Notwithstanding

More Americans than ever say they celebrate the upcoming holiday of Christmas as a religious one.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 88% of American Adults say they celebrate Christmas, and 81% of this group celebrate it as a religious holiday. Just 16% of those celebrants regard it as a secular holiday.


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(88% celebrate it) x (81% of those do so as a holy day) = 71.28% celebrate Christmas as a religious holy day
1 posted on 12/12/2011 10:30:47 AM PST by Notwithstanding
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(88% celebrate it) x (16% of those do so as a secular holiday) = 14.08% celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday

12% do not celebrate Christmas at all (or would not answer the question)


2 posted on 12/12/2011 10:32:54 AM PST by Notwithstanding (1998 ACU ratings: Newt=100%, Paul=88%, Santorum=84% [the last year all were in Congress])
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Ohhh, this will not make the demon-infected left happy.


3 posted on 12/12/2011 10:33:46 AM PST by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country. LOOKING FOR ROLEPLAYERS. Check Profile.)
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I don’t know about the math in this, but overall this is great news. I don’t even mind the 16 percent who celebrate it as a secular holiday because as long as Christmas survives I will be happy. I do feel sorry for kids who attend public schools though....no fun. My kids go to Catholic School and they still have a full Christmas pageant with Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus....not to mention tons of fatty cookies and cakes to eat after. It is just delightful to see that schools still do this type of thing. Unfortunately for public school kids that is not reality.


4 posted on 12/12/2011 10:34:48 AM PST by napscoordinator (Anybody but Romney, Newt, Perry, Huntsman, Paul. Perry and Obama are 100 percent the same!!!!!)
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5 posted on 12/12/2011 10:36:44 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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Personally I see a silver lining in a crappy economy at Christmas. It seems to be driving my family toward a more traditional Christmas less focused on presents and more focused on family and God.


6 posted on 12/12/2011 10:43:33 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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7 posted on 12/12/2011 10:44:47 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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Lamh Foistenach Abu!
8 posted on 12/12/2011 10:46:25 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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Whoa. Back the truck up here.

I’m a Christian. And I don’t see Christmas as a Holy Day.

I think I know what this article is getting at. But if someone wants to get out the Bible and show me where it says to celebrate December 25 as a holy day, then....


9 posted on 12/12/2011 10:46:39 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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“Peace on earth, good will toward all men”... trumps religion.. and politics..

Makes a laughing stock of Marxism and dialectical materialism..

URP has ejected God like a DVD player..
America HAS NOT...


10 posted on 12/12/2011 10:51:41 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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I’m a Christian. And I don’t see Christmas as a Holy Day.

For me, the big one is Easter.
11 posted on 12/12/2011 10:54:41 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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Please don’t fart on this thread.


12 posted on 12/12/2011 10:57:36 AM PST by Notwithstanding (1998 ACU ratings: Newt=100%, Paul=88%, Santorum=84% [the last year all were in Congress])
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More validation that this country is still a Christian nation. I think Easter is the truest Christian holiday of all, and that it’s just a guess that Christmas is the date of His birth, but that’s still “the reason for the season”.


13 posted on 12/12/2011 11:07:26 AM PST by Baladas
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holy: religious, sacred

holiday: holy day

holy day: a day set aside for special religious observance


14 posted on 12/12/2011 11:08:27 AM PST by Notwithstanding (1998 ACU ratings: Newt=100%, Paul=88%, Santorum=84% [the last year all were in Congress])
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holy: showing a devotion to God and to a life of virtue


15 posted on 12/12/2011 11:09:09 AM PST by Notwithstanding (1998 ACU ratings: Newt=100%, Paul=88%, Santorum=84% [the last year all were in Congress])
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How in blazes can anyone describe Christmas as a “secular holiday?”

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Merry Christmas, all!!!!


16 posted on 12/12/2011 11:11:08 AM PST by RexBeach
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Why do want to nitpick on this thread?

The world stops on December 25 each year to celebrate the fact that Jesus the Savior was born as a man in the humblest of circumstances.

The thread does not say anything about the actual date of birth.

The day is holy because it is a day to remember that God chose to enter the worlds as a tiny child so that He could make John 3:16 a reality.

If you don’t think that the birth of Christ was holy and the celebration of it is holy then “seasons greetings” to you.


17 posted on 12/12/2011 11:16:37 AM PST by Notwithstanding (1998 ACU ratings: Newt=100%, Paul=88%, Santorum=84% [the last year all were in Congress])
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‘We’re not a Christian nation’ - B. Hussein Obama


18 posted on 12/12/2011 11:23:33 AM PST by mkboyce
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My daughter’s “Winter Concert” was last week. They sang one non-traditional Christmas song about getting stuff, one miserable little song about the winter solstice, a song about a snow day and a twenty second Hanukkah song. It was awful... just awful.

This was our first Christmas concert in public school. I’m on a mission to make it our last.


19 posted on 12/12/2011 11:29:42 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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As much as I understand the message I hate the graphic because it comes from that jackass Kevin Smith.


20 posted on 12/12/2011 11:35:43 AM PST by frogjerk (OBAMA NOV 2012 = HORSEMEAT)
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