Talk amongst yourselves....I'll give you a topic

The True Meaning of Christmas is:

a. Celebrating the birth of Jesus, a wise man and philospher.

b. Celebrating the birth of Jesus, the son of god who died for our sins.

c. (courtesy of Rabbi Michael Lerner): "There is a beautiful spiritual message underlying Christmas that has universal appeal: the hope that gets reborn in moments of despair, the light that gets re-lit in the darkest moments of the year, is beautifully symbolized by the story of a child born of a teenage homeless mother who had to give birth in a manger because no one would give her shelter, and escaping the cruelty of Roman imperial rule and its local surrogate Herod who already knew that such a child would grow up to challenge the entire imperialist system. To celebrate that vulnerable child as a symbol of hope that eventually the weak would triumph over the rule of the arrogant and powerful is a spiritual celebration with strong analogies to our Jewish Chanukah celebration which also celebrates the victory of the weak over the powerful. And many other spiritual traditions around the world have similar celebrations at this time of year.The loss of this message, its subversion into a frenetic orgy of consumption, rightly disturbs Christians and other people of faith."

d. Presents! Loot! Shopping!

e. Spending time with family (of origin)

f. Spending time with family (of choice)

g. Family feuds

h. Ritual and tradition

i. Music and lights, tinsel

j. A big dinner with turkey or ham

k. A big dinner with lutefisk

l. Baking and baked goods

m. Chinese food

n. Booming business

o. Slow business

p. A day off

q. A day with overtime

r. A breach in the separation of church and state

s. An attack on people of faith by secular humanists (*gasp*)

Tomorrow: Chanukkah blogging!
- posted by k @ 12:15 AM