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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Christmas {report} card
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 12:56:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 12:56:00 1984
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> 	So don't buy Jewish friends Christmas presents or send us
> Christmas cards.  Remember people are all different and this time of
> year means something very different to Jews and Christians.

Ah, but you're assuming that Christmas is just a Christian holiday!  I'm an
atheist and yet I celebrate Christmas.  (When I was a pre-schooler and
attended the Jewish Community Center nursery school I used to celebrate
Hanukkah as well, but that's a different story.)  I don't always send
Christmas cards, but when I do I send them to my atheist, agnostic, Jewish and
Hindu friends as well as my Christian ones.  For me, as for many non-Christian
Americans, Christmas is a secular holiday (albeit one with deep Christian and
pagan roots).

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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