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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Charleston, West Virginia, has held an old-fashioned downtown Christmas parade for many years.

In early October, the city's official Facebook page announced the Charleston Winter Parade

will begin at the corner of Kanawa Boulevard and Capitol Street.

Their recently elected mayor made the change to signal their

city was a place for people of all faiths and cultures. However, that is not how many residents

saw her decision. City council members learned about the name change when everyone else did.

Then they began hearing from constituents who were upset. On the third day after the mayor's

announcement, she changed her position and the Christmas parade was back on. Divisions over Christmas

seem to be escalating as our culture's secularism escalates. Here are two examples in the news.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has renamed the state's Christmas tree,

the capital holiday tree.

And Starbucks recently unveiled new seasonal cups for the holidays,

none of which uses the word Christmas.

Two of them say Merry Coffee.

Each cup's sleeve displays the words,

We wish you a Merry Coffee. A Starbucks spokesman noted that the company still offers a Christmas blend and that their stores will be decorated during the holidays with Christmas colors and candy cane

ribbon. It is a cultural fact that secularism and relativism go hand in hand.

In order to move away from historic religious truth and orthodox morality,

secularists must begin by redefining truth and morality as personal and subjective.

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