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⌈ Secret Post #2169 ⌋

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Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Seven)

[(Anonymous)]

Adding to the general responses with my personal anecdotes:

Jew (well, atheist, but raised Jewish and still do at least a token celebration for most of the holidays), from California by way of South Florida here. Of my own accord, I don't celebrate any of the non-Jewish holidays. But if friends have a Christmas party or something, I'll go and have fun. And I've got a bunch of friends coming over for a Channukah party I'm throwing on Friday, most of whom aren't Jewish. Or among my group of mostly atheist-but-raised-in-some-religion friends, there's a tendency to use joking names for a holiday party, like "Chrismahanukwanzaka" or stealing Sienfeld's "Agnostica".

Work events will typically just call it a "holiday" or "winter" party, to be inclusive.

However, if I were invited to an actual religious ceremony, like going to a church for Christmas Mass, I'd politely decline, unless there was some very personal reason to go. Something like a close friend's relative being memorialized or naming ceremony or something. (Do churches even do those at Mass?) Even then, I'd be reluctant. I feel horribly out of place and uncomfortable at religious ceremonies I have no personal connection to.