Don’t be doubling down! The following is from a short piece by R.J. Snell: If today we are tempted to gloat or despair, curse or mock, it would be far better for ourselves and our children to quietly pray or study, rake the leaves, invite a neighbor to dinner, play a game, or work in the garage: all the things that a self-reliant, free, and sober people do.
I’m not really doubling down. It’s just that I take a dim view of Christmas as a holiday that causes more needless suffering than religious devotion. In fact, the devotion is lost in all the traditional bumpf that has little to do with what Christmas was originally about.
Tarnmoor 
Don’t be doubling down! The following is from a short piece by R.J. Snell: If today we are tempted to gloat or despair, curse or mock, it would be far better for ourselves and our children to quietly pray or study, rake the leaves, invite a neighbor to dinner, play a game, or work in the garage: all the things that a self-reliant, free, and sober people do.
I’m not really doubling down. It’s just that I take a dim view of Christmas as a holiday that causes more needless suffering than religious devotion. In fact, the devotion is lost in all the traditional bumpf that has little to do with what Christmas was originally about.