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From: norma@hpcllak.HP.COM (Norma Pincus)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Xmas: which religion ?
Message-ID: <7500003@hpcllak.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Jan 88 20:19:15 GMT
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Organization: HP ITG/ISO Computer Language Lab
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>>Christmas is simply a time
>>to chop down a tree and put it in the living room, and raise your stress
>>level fighting crowds to buy presents for people you haven't thought about
>>since the last time you did this.

>	Well, if you ask me, you're worshipping commercialism.  So Xmas
>is a religous holiday for you too, except that instead of Jesus you
>worship $$$.  Oh no ?  Then why buy presents for people you don't
>care about ?

Aw, com'on folks, do I _really_ have to put a :-) after _that_???  Have
you ever heard the term "tongue in cheek"?  I was simply trying, in a
(lame, I guess) way to emphasize that Christmas has no religious
significance for me.
Seriously then:  It's a time to have fun; to get together with friends
and loved ones and share and spread joy.
But even if I _did_ buy presents for people I don't care about, how 
the _hell_ does that equate to a worship of money????  Things like
that are done all the time out of a sense of obligation.  Hypcritical,
maybe.  But showing a worship of money????  If there is _any_ way you
could explain that to me, I would be grateful.

And remember, this is a borrowed account.
Address responses (flaming or otherwise) to James Preston.