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Originally Posted by LaRondo
Well, I dunno. It's got the same name, doesn't it?
BTW, they now put one up infront of my gym's entrance. Now, I have circumvent it for the next month or so ...  |
No, there weren't any decorated evergreen trees in the time of Christ. Neither was there a fat man in a red suit with his sled and flying reindeer. There weren't any stockings hung on the mantle, nor chestnuts roasting on an open fire. There certainly wasn't the pressure to buy all kinds of expensive crap that people don't need for everyone you know (the Magi only brought gifts to JC, if I remember right). There certainly weren't any icicle lights hanging off the gutters, or hideous fruitcakes either. So what should we do to celebrate? Should we all go sleep in a barn and offer newborns a tub of myrrh?
There's always someone who wants to spoil the party. If you don't believe, just accept people's good wishes in the spirit they were intended. You don't need to feel like you're being pressured to convert because Christmas hasn't been entirely about Christ for a long time now. It is largely a secular shopping exercise.