I decorate my dwelling for the winter holidays ...
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Hanukkah Menorah (Score:5, Informative)
I put an electric Hanukkah menorah in a front window. It is now put away, however, because Hanukkah ended over two weeks ago.
Yule (Score:4, Informative)
dude, chill out...
Christmas is a modern adaptation of a pagan holiday, Yule. [wikipedia.org]
It was a pagan holiday celebrating the solstice (Dec. 21st) and was changed to reflect the Catholic Monarchy's human population control plan.
Also, even if the above is true, you're still wrong to be insulted by "Bah Humbug"
It's a joke...it's not an endictment of anyone who doesn't celebrate Christmas as an evil atheist. It's a little bit of fun.
Get over yourself. No one cares that you're "irreligious" just as no one cares about what I think either....you're being over sensitive because it makes you feel important.
It's a secular holiday in origin and now, by any measure, Christmas is again a secular holiday where our culture celebrates ***consumerism***
Re:It is summer here, you insensitive clod! (Score:5, Informative)
Who said Jul/Yule (pre-christian for xmas) is only celebrated for religious reasons? I celebrate it for cultural reasons, as do many other people I know.
There are various reasons people celebrate it:
- advertising (Hallmark event)
- peer pressure (imagine having kids who feel they're missing out)
- religion (I'm with you on this one.)
- cultural tradition (my reason for celebrating it, as I'm from Europe. Given how old Stonehenge is, the tradition of celebrating this event in some form or other is possibly 15+ millenia old.)