From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Green Christmas
Article-I.D.: floyd.878
Posted: Tue Nov 23 15:38:57 1982
Received: Thu Nov 25 03:17:00 1982
References: ariel.137

I'm Jewish.  I don't care about green Christmas, Xmas, Christmas, or
any of that.  On Christmas morning I sleep until I wake up, then I go
about my usual business.  I have absolutely no special place in my
heart for Christmas.  Many Christians find this so extremely hard to
believe.

I fast and pray on Yom Kippur.  The Jewish Day of Atonement,
culmination of the High Holy Days.  Most important holiday of the
Jewish year.  How many of you non-Jews have a special place in your
heart for Yom Kippur or even know when it comes?  How many of you wake
up on Yom Kippur morning feeling what Jews feel?  I should hope none,
because you're not Jews.  How many of you go to the doctor when I feel
ill?  None.  That's because you do what concerns you and I do what
concerns me.

I enjoy seeing the effect of the Christmas spirit, I enjoy listening to
Christmas carols.  I feel absolutely no obligation to spend hundreds of
dollars on presents at Christmastime, and I don't miss the presents I
don't receive one iota.

I make this comment because I have seen comments on the net about how
merchants don't share the reverence that certain people have for
Christmas.  Your reverence and your belief is your business.  If you
don't like what merchants do, then don't buy what they sell.  People
obviously respond to the advertising, else the merchants would yank it,
I assure you.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491