Oh yes, I've gotten the "You're anti-Christmas because you call it the holiday season."
Half my family is Jewish, we end up celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah, so referring to it as the holiday season is hardly being "anti-whatever." I don't much like Christmas, but that's because I don't generally like family-oriented holidays. At least with Hanukkah, it's just Dad and my siblings (since his family's a bit spread out), and we don't make a huge deal of it.
Not to mention, Christmas was originally a Pagan tradition that Christians stole... and the fact that it's been commercialised to death isn't the fault of people who call it "the holiday season." We keep our celebrations small because they're no need for extravagance (except on new years, then we splurge for the nice champagne, haha).
My immediate family generally helps out with a couple of food banks, and donating what we can (we're not exactly wealthy, but we try). During high school, I'd work at a soup kitchen (we needed 40 community service hours to graduate, and I figured it was a good way to do so... and fun).
Whoa, sorry, looks like half-rant/half-babble above, haha, oops.
How many of you people who piss and moan about the phony "War On Christmas" and fawn over the Conservative lie that Liberals want to remove the "Christ" from Christmas actually spend any time during the Holiday Season doing things to help others?
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2009/11/28 14:30:27
Oh no...i said "Holiday Season".....I must be anti-Christmas. A little FYI, kids. It's called the "Holiday Season" for a reason. The season contains a number of holidays OTHER than Christmas. Thanksgiving, New Year, Hannukkah.....
Do you all just piss and moan and whine like you do here on SodaHead, or do you go out and do good work during this time of year, like gather coats for needy kids, or volunteer at a food pantry, or SOMETHING, other than complain about those of us who DO those things?
I'm sure I already know the answer....
Do you all just piss and moan and whine like you do here on SodaHead, or do you go out and do good work during this time of year, like gather coats for needy kids, or volunteer at a food pantry, or SOMETHING, other than complain about those of us who DO those things?
I'm sure I already know the answer....
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runningintriangles 2009/11/28 15:00:58
We can sing Hannukah dreidel songs.
We can sing Kwanzaa songs.
But we can't sing Christian songs.
How fair is that?
Go be charitable, but leave me out of it.
Half my family is Jewish, we end up celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah, so referring to it as the holiday season is hardly being "anti-whatever." I don't much like Christmas, but that's because I don't generally like family-oriented holidays. At least with Hanukkah, it's just Dad and my siblings (since his family's a bit spread out), and we don't make a huge deal of it.
Not to mention, Christmas was originally a Pagan tradition that Christians stole... and the fact that it's been commercialised to death isn't the fault of people who call it "the holiday season." We keep our celebrations small because they're no need for extravagance (except on new years, then we splurge for the nice champagne, haha).
My immediate family generally helps out with a couple of food banks, and donating what we can (we're not exactly wealthy, but we try). During high school, I'd work at a soup kitchen (we needed 40 community service hours to graduate, and I figured it was a good way to do so... and fun).
Whoa, sorry, looks like half-rant/half-babble above, haha, oops.
So many of our 'holidays' have become 'Commercialism Day'. Valentines Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas... are all major spending days for candy, food, decorations, and stuff.