Do we know it’s Christmas?

Published December 25, 2017 5:01am ET



You may not know it from the ever-present Christmas trees, lights, and wreaths, but American attitudes toward Christmas are shifting. A recent Pew study found that while 90 percent of Americans still celebrate Christmas in some form, 56 percent believe that the holiday’s religious elements are stressed less than they used to be. And according to the poll, few seem to care that Christ is being taken out of Christmas: Only 32 percent say this development bothers them either “a lot” or “some.”

In another finding, a bare majority of Americans believe in the essential elements of the biblical Christmas story — the Annunciation, the virgin birth, the laying of the infant Jesus in a manger, and the Wise Men.

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