Keep religious celebrations in homes and churches where they belong, keep them out of the government and workplace, yes, and public schools

And cancel the Mudcat Secret Santa program, too.

This is an example of how any community can hold wildly incongruous values, and hold them deeply. On the one hand, there have been attacks on various religious ideas and belief sytems around Mudcat for years, sometimes vicious. On the other hand, the DT and music threads are full of dearly-loved religious music, and here in the BS section we have holiday-celebrating threads and activities of various sorts.

Meanwhile, some of the most widely-opposing viewpoints about spiritual and or religious "stuff" are FIERCELY held by pairs of Mudcatters who are running-- in parallel-- close, tolerant, and loving friendships online and, verily, forsooth, in the FLESH!

It's all good...but it's all, also, to some degree, quite nuts. C'est le Mudcat! Vive le Mudcat!

~Susan