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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven’t read this whole thread, but I get what OP is talking about.  We are Catholic, and my teenagers have been getting more devout as they have been getting older.  They want to celebrate Christmas only as a religious holiday between Christmas and the epiphany.  We’ve been trying to do this as a family the last couple of years, but it’s really hard to opt out.  [/quote]

It's hard to say no to all those invitations you're receiving?[/quote]

No.  It’s hard to not put up lights and a tree and bake cookies and go shopping and give gifts until Christmas.  There is a huge cultural push to do these things in December.

Ironically, it’s just as culturally abnormal to do them during the actual liturgical Christmas season.  Secular Christmas is over by NYE.
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It’s not actually hard not to do this. Most Jewish families don’t do any of it. [/quote]

Okay…most Jewish people have been considered “other” for thousands of years because they don’t observe the same cultural traditions as the people around them.  
I’m glad you think that’s “not hard.”

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