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Do we have to keep talking about religion? It’s Christmas!
— My So-Called Life · 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The objection treats Christmas as a reason to stop talking about religion, creating an irony between the holiday and the subject being rejected. The impatient question and emphatic exclamation make the contradiction sound entirely natural to the speaker, which gives the exchange its humour.
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