As one of the people who has to work one or the other of my jobs during this time of year, I'm always mindful that there are many people for whom the holiday season is not that great.
How do we liberal religious folk deal with them? Do we deal with them at all? Or do we shunt them over to the side in this forced gaiety of the season and tell them to essentially "Wait 'til next year."?
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For many years, the holiday season was not great for me because I'm not close to my family and there's so much expected family togetherness.
At the same time, I didn't really want or expect my church to do anything about it. I think I would have been kinda appalled if they had tried. "Forced gaiety" is less fun for me than it appears to be for other people.
As for people who work, my impression is that most of them on some level choose to work Christmas day, either directly by accepting an offer to work then*
or by virtue of having chosen a career, be it ER doctor or Church organist, that requires people to work on some holidays. My guess is that if they weren't basically OK with it, they would make other choices.
As I unpack this, I'm realizing that I don't think I'm understanding what you mean. Could you elaborate?
CC
*A long time ago, I was a temp and had an assignment as the secretary for the manager of a call center for a cell phone company. They desperately wanted the folks who work the phones to come in on Christmas day, since that's a day when lots of people get new cell phones and need help setting them up. The call center was offering triple pay and an elaborate Christmas buffet.
And before somebody asks, No, they weren't forcing people to work on Christmas because of the publicity backlash that would have resulted had it gotten out that they had done so.
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