berberry writes:
Oh come on!
We are talking about Christmas, after all. I'm no warrior on "happy holidays" or anything, but where we're talking about Christmas I think even Faith is justified in being a little bit Christo-centric.
Well, sure she is, berberry, but that didn't happen in a vacuum. Faith felt compelled to correct someone else's entirely accurate statement with her Christobigotry.
When she insists on seizing upon someone else's complimentary comments about religion's deep influence on music to claim credit for all Christmas music for Christ--an assumption about Christmas music composers she cannot possibly defend, given the long secular Christmas tradition and the unknowable beliefs of even ostensibly Christan composers--even a mild-mannered pagan like me has to protest...
...in a loving, Christian-like way, of course.
And I'm not a Happy Holiday warrior either--it's Christmas, let's just say Merry Christmas. My employers are Jewish, and I tell them Merry Christmas for Christmas, and they reply the same--they host a Christmas party where one of them dons a Santa hat and distributes gifts to us all; they tell me Happy Hannukah, and I reply the same, and I present gifts each year to one or more of the six of them; one of my newly-hired fellow employees, a Jordanian Muslim, wishes us all both Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah: I look forward to learning and sharing his own religion's blessing wishes.
Unfortunately, my fellow employees who are "Christian" rarely miss an opportunity to disrespect and insult both Judaism and Islam. I wish them a Merry Christmas, as I have Faith, but I also voice my diagreement and disapproval, every time they indulge in that little bit of hatefulness. I'm funny that way. I've taken lumps from racists, homophobes, and zealots all my life for my penchant for speaking out, and I won't stop now.
So, no, I'm not cutting Faith any more slack here than anywhere else.
Nonetheless, the Christmas spirit moves me to love her just as much as she loves me.
BTW, anything Mahalia sings moves me.
Merry Christmas, berberry, to you and all of yours!
This message has been edited by Omnivorous, 12-25-2005 06:11 PM
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