Christians against Christmas
When I was young, Christmas happened the night before. We were a Christmas Eve family. Christmas Day—after the rush of discovering what Santa Claus had left us—was pretty boring, until the year that my dad realized, probably when I was an adolescent, that the local movie theater was open on the day. A new Gallagher tradition was born! We did not go to church on Christmas Day. That would be silly; Christmas had nothing to do with church. Christmas was a time for overeating and overspending—or, to put a more positive spin on it, Christmas was for families and for generosity.
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