Trouble with Christmas (Paperback)

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In The Trouble with Christmas Tom Flynn challenges America's most popular sacred cow. Alternately outrageous, satirical, and thoughtful, this rollicking critique calls Christmas to account. How many holiday traditions are authentically Christian? (Next to none.). Does the contemporary Christmas holiday have ancient roots? (Hardly. It was largely invented by six eminent Victorians.). Is the Santa Claus myth unhealthy for children? (Yes, Virginia.). Are Christmas critics discriminated against? (Is "Scrooge" an insult?). What is the future of Christmas as America becomes a multicultural, multifaith society? (Educators should start sweating now.). The Trouble with Christmas is not only for curmudgeons, but for citizens, parents, teachers, and freethinkers of every stripe. Anyone curious about the origins and future of one of the Western world's most celebrated holidays will find something of interest in this provocative book.
America's most popular holiday is not for everyone. Flynn argues that Jews and atheists tolerate Christmas too passively in exchange for social acceptance. Members of faster-growing religious minorities will be less accommodating. Flynn believes that Christmas traditions must be redefined. Perhaps most controversially, he re-opens inquiry into the Santa Claus myth and concludes that belief in Santa harms the young.

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Title:	Trouble with Christmas
Publisher:	Prometheus Books
Author:	Tom Flynn
Edition:	Paperback
Language:	English
ISBN:	0879758481
EAN:	9780879758486
No. of Pages:	244
Publish Date:	1993-10-31
Binding:	Paperback

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The book Trouble with Christmas by Tom Flynn (author) is published or distributed by Prometheus Books [0879758481, 9780879758486]. This particular edition was published on or around 1993-10-31 date. Trouble with Christmas has Paperback binding and this format has 244 number of pages of content for use. This book by Tom Flynn is written in English language.

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