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How to maintain family traditions when beliefs diverge

Our family celebrates Christmas together every year but my parents are becoming more fundamentalist and my sister and I are moving away from organized religion and the holidays are becoming tense and joyless for everyone.

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Sacred traditions can become sites of conflict when family members no longer share the faith that originally gave them meaning.

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