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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Christmas is so secular nowadays that I don’t see any problem with it.  Jesus never met Santa or had a Christmas tree!  [/quote]

This post makes no sense -- of course, Jesus didn't -- Jesus was a Jew and never claimed to be anything else (we are all the children of God).

However, many years after his death, people created a new religion based on him (against his wishes -- I'm sure he's rolling in his grave).   These new people tell Jews (such as Jesus) that they are going to hell for being Jewish (just like Jesus).  They also celebrate his birth randomly at Christmas.

I'll admit that Christmas is so commercialized but it's not "secular" anymore than Hanukkah which has been Americanized and commercialized but no Christians are celebrating it.  Christmas literally means the celebration of Jesus as "Christ" (gd).

That said, as a party-loving Jew, we do have a Hanukkah bush, Hanukkah stockings and basically every other Hanukkah-version of Christmas possible.  Any when DS was 2 until he turned 4, so 3 years, at which point both my mom and my MIL thought it was ridiculous, DS got one present from Santa.  And when he started kindergarten, we explained that Santa was just make believe and didn't visit anyone.[/quote]

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