05:24 am - QotD
"I know the cultural hegemony of the Christian holidays can
be overwhelming. I'm a Christian, both by faith and culture, and
I find it a test of my faith and patience to endure the blare of
Christmas songs, the crush of Christmas shoppers, the forced
jollity of office parties. I can only imagine what a mess it must
be for people whose own traditions and beliefs are swamped and
belittled. It wasn't atheists or Muslims or Buddhists who took
the real spirit of Christ out of Christmas. It was us." --
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wordweaverlynn,
2009-12-24
[I was going to save this one for the next time I heard the 'war on Christmas' rhetoric start up, but when I was checking television listings over the weekend and saw a bunch of Christmas movies scheduled nearly a week before [US] Thanksgiving (and then had a friend tell me about being in various stores where people were looking for Thanksgiving themed tablecloths and other decorations and couldn't find any because they'd been replaced by the Christmas stuff), I decided it was time for this quotation now.]