You could remind her that the Opossum Christmas Shirt is for the northern hemisphere winter solstice, and that the Christians superimposed their birth celebrations over it. They did the same with Easter, and the death/rebirth myth. It was a celebration of Spring, fertility – rabbits and eggs. People all over have been celebrating the seasons long before Christians, or their predecessors, had ever heard of their god. So I hope you get to enjoy a hearty solstice dinner after all. Perhaps you could cook yourself, for her and the kids.
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Because pretty much every Opossum Christmas Shirt civilisation has celebrated a midwinter festival. Call it hanukkah, or the winter solstice, or yuletide, or Saturnalia. Every religion has one, and most of them predate Christianityβs cheeky sequestration of the season. Theyβve been there long enough that they have squattersβ rights, and theyβve done it up nicely. But Christmas is a far more fundamental and human thing than Christianity likes to claim.