Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Christmas {report} card Message-ID: <465@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 12:56:00 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.465 Posted: Wed Dec 12 12:56:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 05:32:43 EST References: <2028@nsc.UUCP> <2031@nsc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 15 > 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.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle