Mar
Easterly Things
It has been a tradition the past few years to go to Audrey’s cousin’s house for dinner on Easter. For us, this is a family thing, not a religion thing. They know where we stand on religion, and that is that. However, the cousins are church people who belong to the choir, and it is hilarious to hear what kind of nonsense goes on there. The stories always make me extra grateful to Asgard. Churches are the habitations of hooples.
I had to go to their church a couple of times for weddings. One was for a lass who is the family’s equivalent of Betty Boop. The other was for the Marine who married an Okinawan woman. There is a combination for you. The kids are Japanese and Norwegian. I suspect they will take up boating some day, since both cultures have a fixation on the sea. The boys are still quite small, and I feel bad for them that at family gatherings, there are no other children. They have to tolerate the boring old folks – us!
I do not like churches. If I have to be in one, I just want them to get it over quickly so we can get out. That goes for funerals, too. I had to go to funerals at another church some years ago. Awful place. Ever notice that the atmosphere in churches is stale and flat?
For we Heathens who have Christian relatives, churches and some holidays are an occupational hazard. They have their weddings and funerals there. Sometimes we have to show our faces. We do it for our Christian relatives, not for their church or their make-believe god-on-a-stick. It is a matter of class. Heathens should have enough class to show some largesse to non-Heathen loved ones.
As for Easter and Christmas, they are their holidays. Always remember that Easter is not Ostara / Eostre, and Christmas is not Yule. Easter and Christmas are Christianized parodies of our holidays. We need to keep that in perspective.
