I love Christmas, I just buy in to it all knowing what it is, perhaps the way religious people suspend their rationality and accept the Bible faithfully. I'm a cynical bastard, cursed by what I think is a very rational mind, I'd prefer to really believe.
I have great Christmas memories as a kid so I just like to keep up the ruse in my mind. Two days a year I love the schmaltz of it all, listening to Christmas music right now, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin. When I see Christmas Mass from the Vatican, look out my window and see snow on the ground and icicles from the roof, it's so tempting to believe and imagine the setting of the scene 2000 years ago where the three wisemen from the east are guided by a special star to the tiny village of Bethlehem where in a manger Mary is giving birth to the son of God, born to die for all our sins.
Jews write great stories, people forget that the early Christians were Jews, and regarded themselves as Jews.
I will watch either Christmas Story or It's A Wonderful Life before I go to sleep and that will be a wrap for Christmas 2013 for me.
I don't know how people in non-winter climates get into the Christmas spirit, I just don't feel it when we have a mild green Christmas.
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