Christmas and the good news that religion is dead

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Christmas is everywhere again – shops and cards and lights and music. Every year we let its glitter, its glamour, fall over our lives like the snow we hope for on 25th December. When I was in Shanghai and Beijing last week much of the iconography was the same as in the West, and that pregnant word, not replaced with an 'X' as so often in post-Christian societies, was omnipresent. It's an irony to see 'Christmas' sparkling on decorations in an officially atheist society, not so much the 'Christ' bit but the 'mas' bit. 'Christmas' is a Catholic word with a large 'C' if ever there was one – the Mass of Christ, the Eucharist celebrated on the birthday of the Man himself.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/stephenhough/100058949/christmas-and-the-good-news-that-religion-is-dead/

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