Christian Christmas v. Regular Christmas?

[David Bergdahl]

If you hurry to a Hallmark card store before the holiday you'll see that in
addition to "Religious Christmas" cards there's also a category of
"Christian Christmas" cards--I suppose they're not for secular humanists!!
-db

On Dec 22, 2007 11:05 AM, Doug Harris <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:

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> And this from one of my favorite lists (Overheard in NY -- Best Weekly
> Quotes):
> Can We Get a Tree and Go Crypto?
> Girl: Oh, look how pretty they are! Can we pleeease get a Christmas tree?
> A
> little one?
> Guy: Uh, no.
> Girl: Well, why not?
> Guy: Because we're Jewish.
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> --Astor Pl & Lafayette
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> (the other) doug
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> I spose y'all wouldn't be surprised at all if friends told you they
> were driving to (fill in the sin city of your local stereotype) for a
> good old-fashioned atheist Christmas.
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> Back to the topic (as I see it). . .
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> dInIs
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> >At 8:28 PM -0500 12/21/07, David Donnell wrote:
> >>Twice today I found myself surprised by the phrase "Christian
> Christmas".
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> >>First, in some article about "Christian Christmas" being celebrated in
> Iran.
> >>
> >>Second, my wife (a South African who grew up celebrating Xmas,
> >>nominally Christian) informed me that some friends of ours were
> >>"driving home to South Carolina for a Christian Christmas".
> >>
> >>Stop me before I go on... Should I be so surprised by "Christian
> Christmas"?
> >>
> >Less surprised than by the Jewish ones.
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> >LH
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