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Nine in 10 Americans will celebrate Christmas this year, but a new poll shows that increasing numbers see the holiday as more tinsel than gospel truth.<\/span><\/div>\n
This year more than ever, Americans prefer that stores and businesses welcome them with the more generic \u201cHappy Holidays\u201d or \u201cSeason\u2019s Greetings\u201d than \u201cMerry Christmas,\u201d according to a survey released Tuesday (Dec. 17) by the Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with Religion News Service.<\/span><\/div>\n
And for one in four American adults (26 percent), Dec. 25 is simply a cultural holiday, not a religious holy day.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cThe trend is in that direction, for sure,\u201d said Robert Jones, CEO of PRRI. The percentage of people who say the Bible\u2019s Christmas story is historically accurate has fallen more than 17 percentage points since a 2004 survey reported by Newsweek.<\/span><\/div>\n
Even so, almost half (49 percent) of those who do celebrate Christmas (including 80 percent of white evangelicals) believe that the Virgin birth is historically accurate, that shepherds really saw a star over Bethlehem and that three wise men truly visited baby Jesus in a manger.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Nine in 10 Americans will celebrate Christmas this year, but a new poll shows that increasing numbers see the holiday as more tinsel than gospel truth. 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