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phosfate ([personal profile] phosfate) wrote2005-12-09 04:43 pm

your headline of the day.

When Christmas Falls on Sunday, Megachurches Take the Day Off

[identity profile] randomways.livejournal.com 2005-12-09 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, that was a typo -- it should read "Mechachurches." They do laser-guided bomb battle for Jesus.

[identity profile] tully-monster.livejournal.com 2005-12-09 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
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?

...to count their money and smite their many enemies

[identity profile] viedma.livejournal.com 2005-12-10 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
You can't work on Christmas *day*, who do you think we are?

**Mithra is the reason for the season**

[identity profile] jume.livejournal.com 2005-12-10 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
I have seriously been having trouble deciphering if I'm supposed to go that sunday or not:O
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[identity profile] norabombay.livejournal.com 2005-12-10 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'm still laughing about this actually. I shouldn't. But I am.

[identity profile] renne.livejournal.com 2005-12-10 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
megachurches? are they like the megacorporations of churches? does this mean the little guy gets a go on christmas?

[identity profile] dragonelf-2002.livejournal.com 2005-12-10 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
Don't you know that Christmas is on Saturday. ::Bwahaha:: I get my Christmas presents a day before you. ::Mwahaha::

BTW, Ann what do you think of selfmade icon?

[identity profile] dragonelf-2002.livejournal.com 2005-12-10 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
Don't you know that Christmas is on Saturday. ::Bwahaha:: I get my Christmas presents a day before you. ::Mwahaha::

BTW, Ann what do you think of my selfmade icon?

(ignore the previous comment)