Oh Heck, Lizzie...

I reckon you and I started this Mother Teresa thing when you noted she was a Christian and I noted that her work was the children, not her faith. Now it seems everybody is on the angel or otherwise bandwagon. Even some clown quoting Christopher Hitchens, which proves nothing other than the quality of the newspaper they get their opinions from. (Did you know that Hitchens claims to want the British Empire back and that is was a good thing? )

Quite obviously, everybody has a different view of what Xmas should be about, and equally, everybody has a personal memory of what Xmas means to them.

I think the issue here is that if somebody, take myself for example, points out that I am not a Christian, am not superstitious and don't believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden BUT enjoy my Xmas... You get people popping up saying that if you miss out the little baby Jesus, it isn't Xmas. Well it is! It's my Xmas. So there! to the lot of 'em.

Sadly, if you point out that you don't believe in supernatural nonsense, you are immediately taken as somebody who picks on Christianity and "You wouldn't upset a Muslim."

Err... no. I for one don't pick on Christians, I leave that to Romans and large felines.

I do however jump down the throat of anybody who tries telling me how to live my life, and make a point of knocking on my door or pontificating from The House of Lords.

So, HUMBUG to them, and hurrah! for consumerism, the (fairly) new religion.....