You all know the ones: God is gonna smite our Christian nation for calling various evergreens Holiday Trees or for banning prayers "in Jesus' name" at football games. I get so much crap from well-meaning friends and acquaintances. I'm sure that many others deal with the same kind of thing. If they are really awful, I respond, but mostly, I just delete them. I'm not going to change that many minds by getting all huffy.
I'm going to do something I've never done and post this in its entirety. As far as I know, it's not copyrighted. If someone knows better, I'll take it down. If this is too long or too religious or knocked the forty-eleventh health care diary off the recent list, I'll consider it. I'm not looking for an argument. I just think this email makes some great points, not only for the Christmas season or just Christians, but for all of us during the rest of the year, as well.
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