The Origins of Christmas : vimarsana.com

Today's holiday culture wars continue an ancient struggle, as Nat Parry explores in this adaptation from his book, How Christmas Became Christmas: The Pagan and Christian Origins of the Beloved Holiday.



By Nat Parry
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By focusing their wrath on what they perceive as “creeping secular

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