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dcnovice -> RE: Happy Chanuka ???? (12/23/2007 9:14:18 PM)
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Becaues 90% of the country and half the worlds population loves that day for whatever meaning it has for them.
One of my favorite passage from A Christmas Carol conveys that point beautifully imho:
“Nephew!” returned the uncle sternly, “keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.”
“Keep it!” repeated Scrooge’s nephew. “But you don’t keep it.”
“Let me leave it alone then,” said Scrooge. “Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!”
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew; “Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never done put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has done me good and will do me good; and I say, ‘God bless it!’”
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