Every Christmas my wife sets up a nativity scene in our living room. She's not really a believer, she just sets it up because her father set one up every year and she considers it sort of a family tradition. But it bugs the hell out of me. As far as I'm concerned, it only promotes mythology and it gives the impression to anyone entering our house that I believe this bullshit.
In order to make light of the thing, I place silly figures in the scene. I'll use plastic baseball players, GI Joes, whatever I can find. I always replace the "baby Jesus" with a sliding baseball figure. This especially perturbs my wife's brother and his wife. They've commented on it being "sacriligious". But what really frosts me is when they take it upon themselves to remove the figures I have put in the display. One year I even found all my figures in a wastebasket! I must add that they have their own nativity display at their house and I wouldn't think to mess around with it. So how do they think they have a right to touch things in our display? Because they find it offensive? Too damn bad!
How would you feel if someone came over your house and decided to alter something you had on display? Any suggestions as to what I should do when they surely come over and remove my baseball figures yet again?
In order to make light of the thing, I place silly figures in the scene. I'll use plastic baseball players, GI Joes, whatever I can find. I always replace the "baby Jesus" with a sliding baseball figure. This especially perturbs my wife's brother and his wife. They've commented on it being "sacriligious". But what really frosts me is when they take it upon themselves to remove the figures I have put in the display. One year I even found all my figures in a wastebasket! I must add that they have their own nativity display at their house and I wouldn't think to mess around with it. So how do they think they have a right to touch things in our display? Because they find it offensive? Too damn bad!
How would you feel if someone came over your house and decided to alter something you had on display? Any suggestions as to what I should do when they surely come over and remove my baseball figures yet again?
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
