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Personally, I prefer...
Mohamedmas...or is it Buddamas...
posted by
arGee
on November 7, 2006 at 8:12 AM
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Occasions are more for the kids to celebrate and enjoy.
posted by
A-and-B
on November 6, 2006 at 1:08 PM
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Christmas has lost the meaning that Christians placed on it and
has reverted more toward its original intent. The fact that we call it Christmas is just easier, I think. It's like the qwerty keyboard. It's purpose is no longer valid but it's not going to change anytime soon because it's just how we do things.
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on November 6, 2006 at 10:55 AM
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I'll make a big batch of stuffing in your honor this Festivus.
You remember that one right? I don't watch, but apparently there is an invention called television, on which a program called Seinfeld aired, and they spoke of a holiday called Festivus....festivus for the rest of us. LOL I agree. Christmas is christmas, and you can call it whatever you want to, but it has been all about presents for years and years. We're drunk with consumerism. People spend thousands and thousands of dollars at Christmastime, and it isn't to celebrate Jesus' birth. It's in prayer to the almighty dollar. It sickens me. If I had to pick gifts or Christmas carol, I'd take the singing any day. We start now (as the kids are really little and need help with the lyrics) and sometimes I even catch them in July singing Jingle Bells or some other silly song. I could do without the gifts. We spend about three or four hundred all the way around. That's all we feel is necessary. It's just sick the way people go into debt for months to come over it.
I didn't realize there was an issue with an infidel like myself using the word Christmas. Good post.
posted by
Schatz
on November 6, 2006 at 9:58 AM
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Poor abused Mary mother of Jesus.
posted by
Jenasis
on November 6, 2006 at 9:50 AM
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