Wesley...I give & receive presents during Christmas season...it can be a celebration of friendship & good will, as well as a religious holiday. I try not to be involved with any 'direct' ceremonies of a primarily religious nature, but if it were awkward to avoid, I'd just be quiet and respectful of THEIR practices.

I go to Easter with my wife's relatives. I stand quietly while someone says grace. Since I KNOW I am attending someone else's specifically religious tradition, I honor it and make no comment.

But I also attend occasional meetings of an organization whose purpose is related to woodworking and collecting. They 'happen' to have some devout Christians in the hierarchy. It DOES bother me to have meals & business meetings begun with calls for Jesus blessing. They do this despite Jewish and atheist and, sometimes, Hindu and Native American members present. They 'could' simply ask for a moment of silence for everyone to contemplate or pray as they wish, but they insist on their 'right' to appease the majority. THIS attitude is far too common and arrogant.


See the difference?