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This year more than ever,
Americans prefer that stores and businesses welcome them with the more generic
"Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" than "Merry
Christmas," according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute
in partnership with Religion News Service.
And for one in four American adults (26%), Dec. 25 is simply a
cultural holiday, not a religious holy day….
Why the
shift toward a more secular Christmas? One reason, Jones said, is that a decade
ago, many more people identified as evangelicals, who (according to the poll)
take the holiday most seriously. Today, they are 18% of Americans — outnumbered
by the 20% who say they have no religious identity, Jones said….
Selling
to the under-30 crowd? Skip the religious greeting, 66% of young adults say.
"They didn't grow up with a stigma attached to being unreligious,"
Jones said….
Most
adults are about as religious about Christmas as their families were in their
childhood: 70% celebrated it then as a strongly or somewhat religious day, but
26% had a cultural celebration.
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