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Old 12-17-2004, 11:10 PM
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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
Yes. You don't have to commercialize Christmas or Easter. You can observe them in a religiously pure manner.
But how many people actually DO this? Even the most religious families I know buy into the material side of Christmas as well. And let's not get started on the pagan part of it. In order to celebrate a Christmas tradition that had nothing to do with paganism, you would have to get rid of the Christmas tree, the gift-giving, and the mistletoe to start with -- oh, and you would be celebrating Jesus's birth sometime in the spring.
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