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DH and I were walking around town admiring all of the lovely Christmas
decorations. (Our street looks like the *Strip* in Vegas, BTW.)
We both made the comment that since so many houses are decorated, the
undecorated houses looked like empty holes.
DH said that they should put at least a little something up for the
neighborhood.
I replied that not everyone is Christian and therefore doesn't celebrate.
He came back with, "Yeah, but unless you are Jewish...And there are so few
of them here."
I reminded him that there are lots of other religions besides Christianity
and Judaism.
He replied that Christmas was such a secular holiday that most people
celebrate it anyway. Is he right? This isn't an argument between DH and I. I am just curious.
I never really thought about it much before. I am one of those wishy washy
agnostics and I celebrate the secular aspects of the holiday myself. |
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- I have no use for any religion and yet I enjoy Christmas very much. For me it's bright
lights on otherwise gloomy evenings, parties (I'm just about to go out to two of them
tonight), a chance to see friends I seldom see otherwise, cool cards (we make our own, using
photographs of our hobbies and some terrible puns -- this year it was a tree in the back of
my hot rod pickup truck with the caption "Happy Hauler-Days"), and great food. We put on a Christmas open house that sees some 80 people play sardine-can in our 900 square
foot house. I love Christmas carols (the traditional ones, not songs -- and let me tell you
about being in the supermarket today and listening to them play off-key children singing "I
Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" -- I was actually walking up the aisle muttering to myself,
"Who did I piss off?") and I can recite the Christmas story (the one Linus did) by heart (which was very useful when I had to read it during the pageant one year at school and they
turned off the lights so I couldn't read my page). I have no problem with people who want nothing to do with Christmas; indeed, we have very,
very little to do with gifts and the whole horrible gotta-shop-gotta-buy crap. But I enjoy
most of it thoroughly. -Growing up in a family that's a
particular religion doesn't necessarily make *you* a part of that
religion. My parents are NOT IN ANY WAY CHRISTIAN even though one each of
their parents was. If I had grown up with Christian parents, but never
believed in the religion myself, and then had gone out of my way to reject
and completely dissassociate myself from the religion once I reached an
age with an ability to think things through for myself, I would be *really* offended by the idea that having grown up in a Christian family
still makes me "in some way Christian". |
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