You know, I think the people who they are really annoyed at about the whole Christmas thing is the Christians who celebrate it as a commercial rather than a religious holiday. Because really, my mom is Christian and my dad is Jewish, and we've always celebrated Christmas at home because my mom wanted to, but it never had anything to do with baby Jesus. It had a lot more to do with decorations, nice music, and presents. And Santa Claus and cookies and stuff.
I do think it's kind of dumb how Hannukah is put forward as like the Jewish alternative to Christmas, because Hannukah really isn't a very important holiday in Judaism. It's just to make us seem more "normal" around here.
That had very little to do with what you were talking about, but oh well. I don't get annoyed if someone tells me Merry Christmas even though I don't believe Jesus was our savior or whatever, but I do like to be able to send "Happy Holidays" cards to my friends, because most of them are atheists anyway.
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Date: 2005-12-09 01:24 pm (UTC)You know, I think the people who they are really annoyed at about the whole Christmas thing is the Christians who celebrate it as a commercial rather than a religious holiday. Because really, my mom is Christian and my dad is Jewish, and we've always celebrated Christmas at home because my mom wanted to, but it never had anything to do with baby Jesus. It had a lot more to do with decorations, nice music, and presents. And Santa Claus and cookies and stuff.
I do think it's kind of dumb how Hannukah is put forward as like the Jewish alternative to Christmas, because Hannukah really isn't a very important holiday in Judaism. It's just to make us seem more "normal" around here.
That had very little to do with what you were talking about, but oh well. I don't get annoyed if someone tells me Merry Christmas even though I don't believe Jesus was our savior or whatever, but I do like to be able to send "Happy Holidays" cards to my friends, because most of them are atheists anyway.