Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Happy Holidays?
In Praise of Seasonal Pragmatism
According to the borborygmic rumblings of Evangelical paranoia, the greeting “Happy Holidays” is a foisted Deep State plot to elbow Christmas out of its rightful (and deserved) first-class civic preeminence.
Well. After the November election just passed, I guess they sure showed us.
Or maybe they just need to get out more.
Me, I know people who celebrate—or at least acknowledge—all sorts of holidays at this time of year, including (in roughly numerical order):
- Yule
- Christmas (religious)
- Christmas (secular)
- Hanuka
- Solstice (secular)
- Nativity
- Saturnalia
- Dies Natalis Solis Invicti
- Chaumós
- Pancha Ganapati
- Hogswatch
- Lurlinemas
Not to mention Thanksgiving and New Year's.
I don't personally know anyone who celebrates Kwanzaa—which friends tell me is largely a top-down affair anyway, more officially- than privately-observed—though no doubt that's only a matter of time.
(Festivus, of course, is a NY in-joke, not a holiday.)
“Happy Holidays”? Hey, I'm a pagan.
When it comes to cards, I'll take practical every time.
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