[Krimel] I for one celebrate Christmas in a manner in keeping with the customs of my family and friends. As a rule I oppose any attempt to shut down a holiday and support every effort to create new ones.
[Arlo] Speaking as a "secular progressive", I find the pagan rituals modern Christians use to mark the Winter Solstice quite enjoyable. Aside from any particular monomythical allegory, it seems that wo/man is born with a seemingly innate desire to mark astronomical (and hence calendrical) events with ritual. Like you, rather than shun this, I embrace it. What we need are MORE holidays, more festivals, more celebrations! We mark the four main solar events (solstices and equinoxes), but I think we should have a monthly "new moon" and "full moon" holiday. If it makes the "religious traditionalists" feel better, we could invent some Jesus story like "every new moon Jesus took a bath". Then we could find some really cool Celtic or Norse pagan custom, combine it with the quaffing of mead, and call it "an American Christian tradition". Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
