Sunday, January 18, 2004
The second best religion story
Jan 18 2004 4:38 pm
Okay, this is my best religion story after the burning in hell forever one.
I was at a different job. I was in the lounge with a christian, an orthodox jew, a hindu and a Christmas tree. The jews children were outside. The christian suggested he bring them in and he refused, citing the tree. She said that she thought it really brightened the place up and that she knew jews who had one too and called it a "hannukah bush." He agreed, somewhat tersely, that jewish children grew up with parents who assimilated symbols of Christmas into their holidays.
Then she said, "and aren't they fortunate, too, to benefit from both cultural traditions." He couldn't take it anymore, and he spat out, "No it's not wonderful. They're not growing up with both traditions; they're growing up with neither!" I was getting really uncomfortable, so I turned to the hindu and said, "Yogi, how do you feel about Christmas?" He said, "It's my birthday, so I celebrate it."
jane
he was inconvenienced by it.
