6 Responses to “What Christmas Is Really About”


  1. 1 Meredith Apr 12th, 2007 at 9:06 pm

    That is fantastic. And quite possibly the reaction I’d get if my mom ever found out I was agnostic. :D

  2. 2 kim Apr 12th, 2007 at 9:43 pm

    Wow. I wonder what that kid learned from this experience?

  3. 3 Heraclitus (Jeff) Apr 12th, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    So, do you think the dad was just too drunk to say anything, or what was his deal?

  4. 4 Mom Apr 13th, 2007 at 8:16 am

    I think he learned, Kim, that he can P– his mom off and maybe some new vocabulary. As far as the dad, I bet he has heard his wife go on in a tirade like this often.

  5. 5 B. Dagger Lee Apr 13th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    I love the way the kid says “Okay!”

  6. 6 Lynn Gazis-Sax Apr 13th, 2007 at 3:35 pm

    My mother’s rule was that we were obliged to go to church and confirmation classes, and, once we reached the age of confirmation, we got to decide - whether we got confirmed, and whether we ever went to church thereafter. When I told her I was an atheist, at about that boy’s age, we reached a mutual agreement that I would visit a nursing home while the rest of the family was at church.

    I’m no longer an atheist, and Mom and I get on fine. I shudder at the thought of her reacting the way the woman in the video does.