[melissa_bear003]

Originally Posted by binkybear

Fran, no disrespect to you here. I'm not writing "to you", just quoting the statement here as I knew this one would come up eventually...but anyone...anyone at all..who celebrates "Christmas" without Jesus being part of it (let alone lumping Him in with Santa Claus) is simply a bona fide cotton headed ninny muggins*.
*("Elf" reference)

This one just bugs the stuffing outta me. I mean come on already with the laziness of simply absorbing whatever's around you with little or no conviction to what you believe in...or what others believe in. Start a new holiday...call it something else...maybe look into Festivus.

But don't celebrate Christmas if you don't believe in Christ.

I honestly find it offensive that you'd try and tell someone what they had to believe in order to celebrate a holiday, that for some, is about family, good will to fellow men, etc...but isn't Christian.

I wouldn't dream of telling ANYONE what they could and couldn't celebrate in their own home...and btw, 'Christmas' started out as a Pagan holiday. Christ was born in the spring, but His birth is celebrated in Dec because it was believed easier for those of Pagan beliefs to switch over.

Freedom of religion. That pretty much sums it up.