I liked that. I’m agnostic and have been for years, grew up in a religious family but realized that it didn’t make sense to me when I reached adulthood, so the whole faith thing doesn’t resonate for me.

However I’ve learned to take what works for me and disregard the rest. I don’t think the bible is unique with its advice about money, anyone with common sense should be able to realize that debt is slavery and its best to not owe anyone anything.

Before the bible was written, human beings used their own smarts and common sense, wisdom is not something that’s exclusive to religion.

I hope I haven’t overstated Sherlock’s position, but I fear I probably have. (I have a notoriously poor memory, and don’t own her book to fact-check.) I was able to find one article that she’s posted to the web: Four Steps to a More Meaninful, Less Commercialized Holiday — With Kids. She certainly advocates a much simpler approach to winter holidays, but it may be that she doesn’t advocate raising children with no concept of them at all.

As a Christian, I’m interested to hear what they have to say about raising children without Christmas, because to me, the high consumption me me me thing Christmas has become really misses the whole point. But I’m interested to hear what advice they have for what kids would think when they hear about their friends’ Christmases.

This is perfectly phrased.

Sometimes I feel it’s like a treasure hunt. I’ll be slogging through books that are so thick with sentiments that bug me that I’m ready to quit, when all of a sudden the author will produce some concept I’ve never heard before. It’s amazing.