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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
No sir. If I go to anyones house and they have decorations up I don't do anything different than I would any other time of the year.
I'm not sure what you're talking about concerning helping others... but I don't do anything more or less for anyone than I would any other time of the year. If anything I do for them ends up helping them in giving gifts etc then that's not a problem with me. Anything I would do to help someone would be for that reason... to help someone.
For instance, if a friend is building something to give someone else for christmas and they need my help building it... I don't have a problem helping them this time of year just as I wouldn't have a problem in March.
I don't view this as some huge spiritual boogey man to be avoided. We simply don't make the usual trappings of christmas a part of our lives.
In a nutshell... I just try to be the same christian this month as I am the other 11. No more. No less. No fear. No avoiding. I just continue to live my life as I always do
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I guess I should have clarified a bit. I often hear people who claim to not celebrate Christmas say "We just have a family get together and a nice meal" which to me IS celebrating. To complete abstain would be to make a point of doing nothing different on Dec 25th that you wouldn't do on any other day.
I think I understand where your coming from and appreciate the fact that you don't seem to spend the whole month of December being offended at all the Christmas trappings surrounding you, unlike some UC's who make a big show of averting their gaze from anything that they disagree with.
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