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Originally Posted by Halibut
Haha! Thanks, Chicken. I may start responding with, "Merry mindless gift-giving and angry, divisive debates over nativity scenes in town squares to you, too!" WOW.
Oddly enough, it doesn't bother me at Easter or when someone says "God bless you" or tells me to "Have blessed day in The Villages!" At least then I know they're doing it on purpose, out of a sense of Christian testimony or whatever. I guess I just find Christmas to be suffocating in general.
Even if the customer is wearing an abaya?  |
Wow.
Because so many people celebrate it, maybe it feels like you are left out. But no one means for you or anyone to be left out. It is important and beautiful and warm and lovely to a lot of us and not in a religious way for many, maybe most. It is TRADITION. It is a happy event, being repeated again, a time for families to gather, a time for dressing up and doing secret kind things for people you love. My Jewish sister in law always called it a National Holiday. Most Jews I know aren't religious. We can't all be the same or think the same but that doesn't mean we have to find fault.. Tradition is good.
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