{"id":3480,"date":"2012-08-08T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T14:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2018-12-24T17:34:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T22:34:22","slug":"i-love-christmas-and-you-should-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/i-love-christmas-and-you-should-too\/","title":{"rendered":"I love Christmas (and you should, too)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I love Christmas. It vexes me when this or that group wants to claim it as “theirs” and declare that no one else can have it. It vexes me when someone dismisses it as no more than an excuse for crass commercialism. Christmas isn’t about some guy being tortured to death, and it’s not about feral crowds and shopping. It’s not about this or that religious festival which coincidentally happens to be held at the same time. Christmas is about love, hope, good will, generosity, friends, and family.<\/strong> It’s about reaching out to people that you’d normally ignore, at best. Frankly I wish we — and by we I mean everyone: atheist, Jew, Buddhist, Christian, Pagan — would take Christmas back from the Scrooges that want to poison it.<\/p>\n

Christmas is no more a “Christian” holiday than Tuesday<\/a> is a “Norse” day of the week. It’s just a name: the actual holiday is much bigger than that<\/a>. Christmas is a human<\/strong> holiday. Christmas is about love, hope, good will, generosity, friends, and family.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christmas is for everyone<\/strong>.<\/div>\n
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