To J.D. Vance, His Family, & His Staff, Hannukah Is a Subset of Christmas
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To J.D. Vance, His Family, & His Staff, Hannukah Is a Subset of Christmas
Jimmy Carter tried to make America’s civil religion “Abrahamic”. Dwight D. Eisenhower did make America’s civil religion “Judeo-Christian”. J.D. Vance, his family, and his staff are in the business of reversing that:
I eagerly look forward to the same “Golden Noël”—with noël brought into English after the Norman Conquest from the Old French nael, a shortening of natalis dies Jusu Christi, the birth day of Jesus Christ—framing for Zoroastrian Shab-e Yalda, RomanSaturnalia, Chinese Dongzhi, Japanese Toji, Scandinavian St. Lucia’s Day, Hopi Soyal, and all the others…
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