Unitarians apparently don't. There's a service at our church on Christmas morning for the diehards, heh. I won't be there, though. My Methodist parents were regular churchgoers but always skipped church when it fell on Christmas Day.
I always thought of Christmas as split into two parts: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, with Christmas Day the secular part and Christmas Eve the sacred part. At our house, on Christmas Eve Dr. Tully Monster and I attend vespers and then come home to have dinner by candlelight and listen to the King's College service of carols and scripture (even though we're both atheists). On Christmas Day we hang out and read books and cook and watch movies and call family members.
There's something weird and Taliban-ish about those complaints--I've never heard them before. If everyone were at church the night before, why do they need to be there again simply because it happens to be Sunday?
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Date: 2005-12-09 11:34 pm (UTC)I always thought of Christmas as split into two parts: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, with Christmas Day the secular part and Christmas Eve the sacred part. At our house, on Christmas Eve Dr. Tully Monster and I attend vespers and then come home to have dinner by candlelight and listen to the King's College service of carols and scripture (even though we're both atheists). On Christmas Day we hang out and read books and cook and watch movies and call family members.
There's something weird and Taliban-ish about those complaints--I've never heard them before. If everyone were at church the night before, why do they need to be there again simply because it happens to be Sunday?