More Americans Celebrating a Secular Christmas [news.gallup.com]
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I think Christmas hasn't really been a religious holiday for a very long time. It's been about spending money on gifts, not about Jesus. Except for Catholic churches, most don't have services Christmas day unless it happens to fall on a Sunday, and I've heard of churches canceling services on Christmas if it fell on Sunday!
JonnaBononna
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Dec 21, 2019
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The only thing that I do is put up lights, and not outside. And I usually put up the cat's stockings, but I've been so busy this year, they're not up. But, hey Festivus is coming up, right?
BlackDove
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Dec 20, 2019
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LOL. I can just see the cats playing with those stockings.
christmas is an annoyance to me. i was raised secular jewish. it's not my holiday and it has always been meaningless to my family, and now its ubiquity is an annoyance to me. i hate it. i don't want to celebrate it, secularly or otherwise, for the sake of a tradition i never had, or a family that never gathered to celebrate it, or for any other reason.
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genessa
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Dec 20, 2019
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I am also a secular Jew and my wife a secular Catholic . There is a Christmas tree because she loves the festive nature of lights and what not. I consider a pagan thing .We also light a Menorah. If she was religious ( I would not have married her in the first place) and told me she was celebrating the birth of Jesus, which was not in December, all hell would have broken out. My problem with Christmas is more religion thing thrown in the faces of people that are not Christian. And throughout the last 1700 years christians have been particularly hell bent on persecuting, killing and converting Jews In the name of Jesus. But anyway HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL
@bklynite53 happy holidays to all and to you, and joy of what if anything everyone celebrates 
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@genessa I don’t drink so I will light up a bowl
@bklynite53 I have to remember to do that too!
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@genessa If you were closer we could light up together
@bklynite53 That would be cool. My guy doesn't like it. I don't get it, but it's just how he is.
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@genessa That’s what makes the world go around— or is that the sun’s gravitational pull
@bklynite53 Wait... The earth isn't flat and stationary?
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@genessa I like your sense of humor and sarcasm— they tell me the earth moves at about 26,000 miles an hour— but I’m still in the same place and where I live it is very flat.
@bklynite53 I used to live in a very strange placed called brooklyn. It didn't move much. California and Japan were much shakier.
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@genessa wow I grew up in Brooklyn Canarsie to be exact— small world
@bklynite53 i lived in south slope -- the poor part of park slope -- for about a year and a half.
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Nice to hear! I'll be celebrating the Winter Solstice tomorrow with a few friends.
Redheadedgammy
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Dec 20, 2019
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