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Originally Posted by PornoDoggy
I don't give a rat's ass about Christmas. I concluded about 35 years ago, when I still considered myself a Christian, that what gets celebrated in December had nothing to do with religion, unless your idea of the holy trinity is Adam Smith, Sam Walton, and Alan Greeenspan.
May the next individual you arrest have consumed two cases of beer, a dozen boiled eggs, a half-dozen pickled pigs feet, and recover from constipation in the back of your squad car.
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I'm not going to be quite as colorful as PD with this, but voodooman, you're using the "we've always done it this way" argument, which is never a good reason for doing anything.
PD...what gets celebrated in December is determined by the celebrant. Jews and Pagans (just to select two) have a long list of holidays they manage to celebrate without the government having to declare anything. All other religions do, too. Any current calendar will provide you with the dates of unpronouceable holidays that I suspect are the result of the current attempts not to bash Muslims.
Your argument, PD, regarding how Christmas is *actually* celebrated is what caused me to compare it to, and celebrate it as, a secular holiday.
The worst thing that has ever happened to me in my life happend at 1:30 pm on December 28, 1975. For a quarter of a century all Christmas meant to me was unbearable pain. I hated everything about it. My way of "celebrating" Christmas was to try and hold in the grief, which as I was later told by my youngest, I did quite unsuccessfully.
For some, it's a religious holiday, and my best to them. To most people, it's something else. What that something else is, is up to them.