[lbo-talk] Ayn Rand Institute: Xmas Should Be More Commercial

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Thu Dec 16 07:34:14 PST 2004


What would Jesus buy?

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Why Christmas Should Be More Commercial
>
> By Leonard Peikoff
>
> Christmas in America is an exuberant display of
> human ingenuity,
> capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life.
> Yet all of these
> are castigated as "materialistic"; the real meaning
> of the holiday,
> we are told, is assorted Nativity tales and altruist
> injunctions
> (e.g., love thy neighbor) that no one takes
> seriously.
>

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