Results: Have Yourself A Very Secular Christmas

Christmas has become more and more a secular holiday celebration than a purely religious one. Although Christmas is celebrated by virtually all Christians, only two-thirds see it as a religious holiday. They are less likely to attend Christmas religious services and to believe in the virgin birth. And most non-Christians see the holiday as more of a social event than a religious occasion. Do you celebrate Christmas in your home?

As a Jewish child, growing up, we always "adopted" the secular meaning of the holiday, and gathered together on Christmas day, exchanging gifts, feasting on a huge dinner with family and friends, enjoying the time together. We didn't equate the holiday in any way with God and certainly not with Jesus. Most of the classic songs and movies that celebrate Christmas don't even mention God or Jesus. Santa doesn't check church attendance to decide whether he's going to give a child a present—he checks whether she's been naughty or nice. He's the perfect secular judge of moral fibre. I heard this song years ago when my daughter was in grade 9 at a country school, and it instantly became my favourite Christmas song. It talks of Christmas as being more of a feeling of love and hope, and that Christmas means a lot of different things to many people. Have you ever heard this song and do you like it as much as I do?

When it comes to Christmas songs, no one does it better than the Jews! Many of our best loved Christmas songs were written by Jews, and many have released top selling Christmas albums. Which of these famous Christmas songs did you know were written by Jews?

Which of these Christmas albums, all released by Jews, do you like?