And following on from that post - I really don't do Christmas

[girliejones]

It's about this time of year that we have that discussion about how Christmas is secular and not a religious thing blah blah blah

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[flinthart]

Christmas makes me very uncomfortable. I have three kids who are starry-eyed about it, as kids are. And who wants to mess with that? Not me

[ratfan]

I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciated this message. I'm always bewildered by the fact that friends and family always sound offended when they ask what I'm going to do for Christmas and I say, "Hide."

This year I'm determined not to get dragged out in the heat - I always have to do the travelling - and have to go places I don't want to much. At least all my rellies will be out of the state this year (g!) so I'm going to hide out with a bottle of Baileys, some really good cheese and fruit, some chocolate and a whole bunch of books.

And Xmas stealing the summer solstice. Definitely the wrong date and the only thing about which I agree with the JWs. Come on, nobody's going to have sheep out in a field in midwinter at that time and place; they'd have been in a byre somewhere.

Humbug.

The Grinch rules.

[flinthart]

Solidarity!

[girliejones]

Grumpy pants - though easy to say for me since I am only ever an observer. I do feel sorry for your son though.

[flinthart]

See? Observer. Nice status, that. You can always play the religion card and say "Nup. But have a happy Hannukah, eh?"

Christmas for the rest of us? It's on some kind of goddam Default Setting. If you don't have a religion get-out-of-Christmas-Free card to wave - or you're not fortuitously dead - then you don't get a choice.

I wonder if there's an Atheists Against Christmas organization I can join?

[girliejones]

I think you just have to remain grumpy pants if you don't have the religion get-out-of-Christmas-Free card

[flinthart]

Grmmgbgyrrmgyggrmmrrmm.... Satanism is a religion, right?

[girliejones]

heh