The Other Michael

Hi Melkor,

The Sierra Club has a lot of good cards - nicely done photography of pretty winter scenes, and the ones we got have the "Peace" on the inside.

It's hard to argue with that sentiment, and if there isn't anything else on the card to show a relation to Xianity, you've got a nice winter solstice greeting card.

cheers,
Michael

Jon

In one of George Carlins bits, he mentioned an xmas card he sent out one year. It was a picture of his dog humping his cat and at the top it said:

Piece

Eudaimonist

If you want to be cute, you could send a Jewish card to them, and when they ask why, tell them that it makes as much sense to send a Jewish card to a Christian as it does to send a Christian card to an atheist.

Wyz_sub10

Eh. *shrugs*

Cards are cards are cards. My wife and I send out cards, the purpose of which is to say, "Hey, thinking about you. Have a good holiday."

We assume they'll smile, say "that's nice" and throw the card away. I don't pay much attention to the printed message, but more to the words written.

No biggie to us if Jesus or Frosty is on the cover.

SharonDee

Which is another reason I'm against the things in the first place. You send 'em because you're supposed to, not because it suddenly occurred to you to see how so-and-so was doing. Because of this, more trees have to die, postal workers have even more crap to deliver, landfills overflow, lava, death, destruction.

Oops... got carried away.

We don't send out cards but people still send them to us. Yes, the thoughts within them are nice but I still feel the pressure to send cards in return. And I resent that.

Wyz_sub10

I can understand your position completely. My wife usually limits her cards to her good friends and close family, whom she keeps in touch with anyway.

For me (partly because I've moved around so much) it is a bit of a kick in the ass to make the effort to stay in touch. I'm a believer, mind you, in the fact that if you don't stay in touch voluntarily, there's a reason for it. However, I know myself well enough to know that I need to be motivated to do those little things from time to time.

Debbie T

I hope I don't get too weird here, but after receiving religious cards from thugs and theives in the family I need to vent!

Card one from mother-in-law oozing about baby Jesus and the reason for the season. Mother-in-law stole 40,000 dollars inheritance (a total of 160,000 thousand) from each of her children, because she had power of attorney over the estate she cleaned out all the assets from the grandparents accounts before the accounting. Her husband died this year too and one month later she was bragging to her children about how she was a millionaire and also about her new sex life she was enjoying. The reason for the season stealing from your children and insensitivity.

Card two from father shrieking about the three wise men and signed simply love dad. The father that beat up mother and children, along with sexual and mental abuse of children. He claims to be a martyr after mother left him. Many members of my family are in denial about what happened (including the divorced mother) and hide in their religion while siblings claim - honor thy mother and father. In other words don't rock the boat and ignore the elephant in the living room.

Have not yet received a religious card from mother yet but there will surely be one with much criticism about my leaving the family behind.

Christmas is such a joy now that I don't share it with dysfunctional Christian family members, but I do have to get the little reminders of them this time of year as they try to suck me back into the family dynamics. Aren't families great?

Ok I feel better now.

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dangin

I'm going to custom make mine next year. Complete with bible verse.

Jerimiah 10:2-4
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

We got one this year from a family where the father as multi systemic cancer. It's even spread to the abdomen walls (He's not going to live much longer) They included the "update" letter of 10 paragraphs, all of which mentioned jesus, and even included the tidbit that the man's cancer has made it possible for them to witness to some people. If I was his kids, I'd gladly take a live father who never had a chance to witness, to one that jesus gave cancer to just so someone could hear about how god is blessing a guy who will never see his own grandchildren.

atheist_in_foxhole

DarkBronzePlant

What do you mean, else?