The Trouble with Christmas

About this book

In The Trouble with Christmas Tom Flynn challenges Americas 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 worlds most celebrated holidays will find something of interest in this provocative book.