• Xariphon
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    6111 months ago

    Just don’t remind them how many pagan symbols are in there.

    Happy Sol Invictus, everyone.

    • @proudblond
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      1811 months ago

      Gotta admit, as an agnostic who was raised gently Christian, that’s part of the reason I’m still comfortable putting all this stuff up in our house. Took a while to figure out a tree topper I liked but one year a saw a dove and that feels less religious to me.

      • @drekloge
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        3311 months ago

        We use a stuffed hamster toy with a santa hat.

        Call it the “Ham-star”

        • @proudblond
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          411 months ago

          Oh yeah, the tilt would make it. I’m fond of wild birds so a bird on my tree made sense. Also, to quote Portlandia, “put a bird on it!”

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            The recurring use of the word bird throughout that series is one of my favorite parts of the show. I love Birdman, the Australian mullet adventurah who shows about at the Air B&B togoonawalkabewt

            “What’s a robin?”

            “It’s a little bidder!”

      • @drekloge
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        111 months ago

        We use a stuffed hamster toy with a santa hat.

        Call it the “Ham-star”

    • @Siegfried
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      411 months ago

      May Jesus come into your house aswell

  • @[email protected]
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    2611 months ago

    If you should shout “happy holidays” in front of that house, it all just catches fire instantly.

    Thoughts and prayers for the family loving under such dangerous circumstances.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      I get that it’s a joke, but “happy holidays” isn’t a secular alternative to “merry christmas”, as the word “holidays” is literally the words “holy” + “day”.

      🤓

    • @LemmyKnowsBest
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      211 months ago

      family loving

      i guess the typo still makes sense

  • @[email protected]
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    911 months ago

    I think this is their version of fighting back.

    I’m just going to come out and say it. Have your Christmas. Nobody else gives a shit about you or what you believe. So celebrate, enjoy. Nobody cares if you do. You don’t have to prove anything to anyone about it, and we wouldn’t notice if you tried.

    So Merry Christmas, happy Festivus, happy holidays, happy Hanukkah… Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, I hope it’s a positive experience and that you and your loved ones enter into the new year as happy and as healthy as they can be.

    But don’t mistake that sentiment for giving any shits about what you do to celebrate.

  • @[email protected]
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    811 months ago

    I don’t even consider Christmas religious any longer. Santa is portrayed far, far more often than Jesus, and that’s just fine by me.

    Religious people appropriated this holiday and renamed it (see Saturnalia). It’s only right for us all to lean into the future being pure Santa.