Since the church hi-jacked our holy days in order to destroy the indigenous cultures of our ancestors, does it bother you to see christians being indignant about our ancient practices still being carried out today? (i.e., colored eggs, gift baskets, giving gifts at yule, the decorated tree..)?
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"Bemused" would be a far more appropriate word for it than "annoyed." After all . . . it's an open question who changed whom the most during the Conversion Age: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195104… (James Russell's _The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity_) But as others have alluded to already, having a bunch of fundythumpers shrieking about "keeping the Christ in Christmas" while hanging tinsel on trees, tacking up garlands, caroling door to door, lighting a Yule log, giving gifts, dressing up as Santa, filling a wassail bowl, roasting a big ham, making New Year's resolutions . . . well, it's all pretty hysterical, actually. In that "dramatic irony" sort of way.
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