When is it Appropriate to Send Religious Greeting Cards?
Sending religious cards to non-religious friends may be potentially insulting. Worse is sending a religious card to a friend of a different religion, say an overtly Christian card to a Jewish friend. If cards are meant to offer salutations, thanks, sympathies, or to wish someone a good holiday season, then the card is also meant to be a personal gesture of good will. Sending overtly religious cards to those with a different belief system tends to pervert the intent of thoughtfulness implied by sending a card. Religious cards are meant to be shared by people of the same central religions. The most common examples of overtly religious cards are religious cards sent at Christmas. If one wants to send religious cards at Christmas, consider relying on an address list consisting of only other Christian friends.
