Oh, and this is rich!

[averygoodun42]

Apparently Christmas lights are pagan.

~blinks~

Um... The whole Christmas ritual as we celebrate it is pretty pagan, really. And seeing as the roots of Christmas go back to early Christians co-opting Saturnalia to get more followers... Yeah. It's pagan. So what? I'm not a JW, so I really, really don't care.

That said, it's finally starting to feel a bit more like Christmas around here. Having the (pagan) tree up with the lights aglow and the days cold helps with that feeling, I think. Too bad it's going to warm up again for Christmas... :-(

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[morethansirius.livejournal.com]

Ummm, I wonder how the letter writer would address my outdoor, lighted nativity scene. Apparently I'm conflicted about my religious beliefs. Am I paganly religious or religiously pagan?

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

Puritanism is alive and well in this country, or at least the vestiges of the movement that look at other people's religious behavior and pull the more-pious-than-thou routine. That makes about as much sense as the movements that protest Halloween as being un-Christian.

The tree really does help with the holiday cheer, doesn't it? I grin every time I plug ours in!