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Celebration of Christmas
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For most Americans, the most important holiday of the year is Christmas. Although Christmas is a holiday celebrated in many nations, there's no denying that America makes a bigger celebration and holiday out of Christmas than any other nation in the world. Perhaps this is because no nation has altered or adapted a holiday as much in the twentieth century as Americans have Christmas.
Originally, Christmas was strictly a day for religious observation, and it has been observed that:
the world 'Christmas' means the mass of Christ from the Old England Christes Maesse, which is celebrated by the Western church on December 25 . . . and that the day of nativity was not generally observed until the fifth century A.D. (Durant 63).
In its original form, Christmas was a day of holy observation, not a day of celebration.
So we see that the first major change of Christmas has been that of gradually changing it from a......

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