Heterodoxy

It started as a Christmas-time gag, and then it became a running
Christmas joke. For a couple of years I used photos of it on most of the Christmas letters I sent out…but not all. My wife told me just before I mailed them that the ones going to her very religious relatives had to have a tamer photo. What was it? It was our family nativity scene,

Over the years, we have had several sets of Nativity figures. One year, our fun-loving sons decided to put them all together. So there was a panoply of multiple Jesii, Marys, Josephs, and competing masses of wisemen.

From there, it multiplied, so to speak, so there were many cats and dogs representing family pets, odd assemblies, and very questionable activities. It was all good Christmas-time fun. And no one who visited seemed to take offense, but there it was—three babies with multiple mothers and fathers. It was enough to make afficiamdo’s of the “Life Of Brian” wish for simplicity.

As a religious friend of mine stated, it was heterodoxy run wild.