Now that the Christian holidays count more as an economic event than a religious one, we’ve exchanged one set of problems for another
After all, if Hans from Bavaria was busy with the New Year sales, he would have less time for a pogrom after a particularly stirring sermon.
With a little help from secularization and December shopping, the tolling of church bells no longer sends a shiver down Jewish spines.
That we’re now in a post-religious age is a matter of polling, not just consumption patterns. Even in America, land of the mega-church, a 2020 Gallup poll found that church membership fell below 50 percent for the first time since the survey began in 1937 — a nosedive of 20 percent since 1999.
But now that the Christian holidays count more as an economic event than a religious one, we’ve exchanged one set of problems for another.
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