How atheists deal with Christmas

[Dusty Rhodes]

Originally Posted by jc76

But am I the only Athiest who feels it would be hypocritical to celebrate Christmas (CHRIST MASS: The birth of CHRISTIAN founder, Jesus CHRIST) since I do not believe in his religion??? I never understood how a true Athiest could justify this. Seems like the same thing the Xtians do. Reeks of hypocrisy. I act as though it does not exist. I simply live on and ignore the insanity of the whole thing. That's how I deal with it.

I hadn't thought that deeply into it. To me it is a nice winter solstice festival, I don't feel guilty about a reasonable excuse to feast. I suspect it was a solstice celebration long before it was christmas.

[cncracer]

I try to ignore it all as best I can, but like most Atheists I have family members who love the lights, and will have something for all religious views scattered around the house. She does skips the catholic garbage for me, and that is good enough for me.

[Who?Me?!]

Originally Posted by PixiStix

This is on the Yahoo home page right now- Not riveting but nice to see non believers mentioned.

Atheists at Christmas: Eat, drink and be wary - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091209/ap_on_re/us_rel_religion_today - broken link)

The last line sums it up I think.... "Enjoy your friends, Eat, Drink & Be Merry!"

It's funny I was thinking about this the other day ...about when I get REALLY old and maybe have to be in nursing home or assisted living apartment and how I will ever get through all the Christmas crap they try to shove down my throat....I'm doing upper body weight training now so I have enough strength left to knock over the "community Christmas tree" and drag it behnd my wheelchair.......YeeHAWWWW!!!!.....