RE: The war on Christmas
November 14, 2013 at 8:42 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2013 at 8:43 pm by Whateverist.)
(November 14, 2013 at 5:15 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote:(November 14, 2013 at 1:21 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: What denominations do they tend to be, or is it just individuals who think the "real meaning" of Christmas is being lost?
Not so much that they think its being lost, more that they think what we do at Christmas has piss all to do with Christianity.
Ironic init.
A Jewish colleague once confided to me that she got tired of all the Christmas trappings, that people forget that not everyone is part of that. I told her as a nonreligious person it all made me feel alienated. When she invited me to her son's bar mitzvah, I told her it would just be one more occasion for me to feel like a martian so thanks but no thanks.
Nonetheless I was raised with Christmas and like a lot of the music. We have family to dinner, do stockings, make persimmon pudding. But I am ambivalent and don't send cards. I don't mind if someone wishes me merry Christmas or such like. I just respond with a generic happy holidays regardless.
