Neiman Marcus removes “Christmas” from their gift catalog: What George Washington can teach us about reliance on Providence
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🗓️ 29 October 2024
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Summary
For ninety-eight years, Neiman Marcus published a gift catalog they’ve called the “Christmas Book.” This year, for the first time, it will be known as the “Holiday Book.” The Dallas Morning News reports that the book's name was changed “in the spirit of inclusivity as it welcomes customers of all backgrounds, religions, and traditions to celebrate the season.” To which we might ask: Without Christmas, what “season”?
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. It's Tuesday, October 29th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris |
| 0:08.8 | Elkins from the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:15.0 | For 98 years, Neiman Marcus published a gift catalog they called the Christmas book. |
| 0:21.9 | This year, for the first time, it will be known as the holiday book. |
| 0:26.4 | The Dallas Morning News reports that the book's name was changed, quote, |
| 0:30.3 | in the spirit of inclusivity as it welcomes customers of all backgrounds, religions, |
| 0:35.5 | and traditions to celebrate the season, end quote. |
| 0:38.8 | To which we might ask, without Christmas, what season? Imagine publishing a wedding or baby gift |
| 0:45.5 | book without acknowledging the existence of weddings or babies. But such is the logic of secularism. |
| 0:51.5 | It, quote unquote, frees us as creatures to deny the existence or relevance |
| 0:57.0 | of our creator to imagine ourselves as the masters of our lives, even though we did not bring |
| 1:02.6 | ourselves into this world and cannot prevent the day we leave it. Despite our obvious and painful |
| 1:08.5 | finitude, we somehow believe we have the freedom and power to assess the past, control the present, and imagine the future, according to our personal beliefs. |
| 1:19.2 | From those who are reinterpreting American history through their critical theory lenses, to those who feel free to define marriage as they wish, in the lives of pre-born |
| 1:29.1 | babies as they choose, and reject faith in God as described in the Bible, we are increasingly |
| 1:35.6 | a post-Christian and even post-Christmas culture. How did we get here? What can we do about it |
| 1:41.8 | today? Cultural commentator Jonah Goldberg recently wrote that |
| 1:46.3 | the Judeo-Christian worldview bequeathed to Western culture a number of foundational tenets, |
| 1:52.3 | including science, from the belief that a single creator made a universe that is predictable |
| 1:57.2 | and rule-driven, and universal brotherhood, from the belief that we are all |
| 2:01.8 | sons of God. However, there's an unpopular side to the biblical worldview. It also claims that |
| 2:07.7 | humans are finite and fallen, a perspective that Goldberg calls the tragic vision. In his |
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