Eli McCann: “We godless heathens are but visitors to their celebrations, cosplaying as believers on an annual basis to get presents. Certainly we can’t expect them to accommodate us, here.”
John plays a song for Constance , a nurse sent to care for the old man, in the movie version of McLean's "The Forgotten Carols."It never occurred to me how religious my family members were until I saw my husband experience a Christmas with them.
“That was a lot of Jesus,” he said to me on the drive home after Christmas Eve dinner at my parents’ house six years ago.He told me there was no Jesus at his family’s Christmas. “Just wine and a lot of fighting, and usually in that order.” Then we debated the correct amount of Jesus that should be a part of the holiday festivities, like we were discussing appropriate salsa spice levels.
“My children weren’t completely devoid of exposure to religion,” she once told me. “I’m pretty sure we had a Bible somewhere in the house — or at least a copy of ‘The Secret.’” It was inconsiderate of me not to warn him about how the show ends, but I simply had to omit this part out of an interest in self-preservation. For the uninitiated: McLean concludes each of these shows by instructing audience members to hold hands with the people on either side of them, rock back and forth, and sing an eternal round of “we can be together forever someday.
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