[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: When the decorations go up (was: Being Scrooge-like)

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 5:47 PM +0000 11/22/03, melclaros wrote:
>This is one thing that we're (Americans) good at, even if some of us
>do get shrill and take things waaayyy too far over the top. You won't
>see a Nativity Play in an American public school. Period.

If they tried that in our district, not only would I be all over them 
like a chicken on a junebug for violation of Separation of Church and 
State, but I can easily see it setting off fights - Hispanic 
Catholics vs. Missionary Baptists vs. Muslims vs. Buddhists vs. 
Jehovah's Witnesses vs. Hindus vs. etc. - that might spill into the 
streets.  I can't imagine being someplace so lacking in diversity 
that anyone could write a script that wouldn't grossly offend someone.



>At 5:30 PM -0800 11/22/03, Saitaina wrote:
>
>I could never understand people putting up decorations so late...it's all over
>on the 26, why not enjoy it...

That's precisely why my family puts up the decorations so "late" (the 
last Sunday in Advent, usually) - because it *isn't* all over on the 
26th.  The 26th is only the Second Day of Christmas!  My family 
always left everything up until the 12th Night (January 6th, Epiphany 
for some).

We also had a lovely Advent wreath every year.  *sigh* I miss the 
Advent wreath.  Normally, I don't miss much of the trappings of my 
Christian upbringing, but a Yule wreath just isn't the same, even 
though I know the solar imagery is where the wreath came from in the 
first place.

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