[ExI] I caught the covid

[Stuart LaForge]

Quoting Bill Wallace:

> even if neither of us are religious.  spike
> Many long years ago when I was a rabid Methodist (if that's not an
> oxymoron) I asked an atheist friend if he celebrated Christmas.  He got
> huffy and said sure - tree, presents, etc.  And why not I thought?  Their
> kids would feel left out, he said, and anyway it's not a religious occasion
> for many people.  I know Jews who do the same thing.  So the 'even if'
> above is not needed.  Nothing whatsoever wrong with it, although Christians
> are always grousing about the 'meaning of Christmas' (a holiday moved to
> the end of the year to take over the traditional Winterfests, which really
> were prayers in a sense about surviving the winter.  Let's have a big party
> before it gets really grim around here. ) So I echo:  Happy Xmas and Merry
> New Year to all of us nontraditional types.  Perhaps one day we will be the
> traditional ones, eh?

Happy Festivus everyone! ;-)


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Stuart LaForge