On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:21:07 -0800 (PST), marika
wrote:

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Not to say that we might pass the greeting 'Happy Christmas' at the
right time / place (mostly out of politeness) but we really don't feel
the need to get caught up in all the commercial *******isation of it.


you are going to hell aren't you.

More than likely.

For the past decade or more, former very powerful but now meToo disgraced Fox USA talking head Bill O'reilly maintained that the "left" was conducting a "war on Christmas."

Ok.

Why Rupert Murdoch ever allowed this nonsense I do not know.

?

I thought he was crazy as I had seen no evidence of any kind of antiXmas. In fact, the holiday seemed to get more and more commercial in the USA, not less so.

Yup.

"Black Friday" shopping sales normally started the day after Thanksgiving (last Thursday in November), but every year since the war had started, Black Friday kept being held earlier and earlier, so you would see sales in October.

Ok.

Then Trump, on his first xmas in office, alleged he had won the war. Not sure what was different about xmas during his reign other than the alleged black Friday sales would occur in October. He put up the same decorations and tree that his immediate left leaning predecessor had.

Ok ... ?

Well Trump is an idiot.

So it seems.

People would often josh that Xmas was arriving earlier and earlier every year, to which i would reply yeah, this year, they held xmas was in 1926.

Ok?

Great. Now I will go to hell.

See you there then. ;-)

The thing is, you don't have to 'believe in' anything to do what you
(or most non-selfish / psychopaths / left brainers) know is right.

They happen to be basically what was laid out in things like the 10
Commandments and what many religions are based on, if it weren't for
those who choose to interpret them they way they want, rather than how
they were meant.

Like any dominion we were given over the other animals we share this
rock with was so that we could care for and protect them, not make
them suffer in huge number and treat like chattels or just food.

Cheers, T i m