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I don't mean just because our national motto is "In God We Trust", and the Pledge of Allegiance refers to "one nation under God". These can be ignored or dismissed if one is really determined.
But you can't ignore things like the biblical seven day week. You can't ignore the fact that our calendar counts forward from the birth of Jesus Christ. You can't ignore Christmas, Easter, or Thanksgiving - and you can't redefine them without carrying around a huge chip on your shoulder (which is not uncommon). You can't ignore St. Louis, San Francisco, or Los Angeles, at least not until the ACLU gets around to suing them for violating the first amendment.
And if you are an American who speaks English, you can't get away from saying things like "goodbye", which means simply "God be with you", or receiving a "bless you" from others when you sneeze.
Worst of all, the English language itself, as spoken in the United States, is permeated with biblical and Christian allusions that are impossible to avoid.
Our language and country is permeiated with a bunch of stuff that has no meaning to anyone except the meaning we assign to it. Nobody cares, except people who are fringeworthy anyway and they don't really matter for much.
You don't actually believe atheists as a group are upset so why worry about it?
I'm an atheist, and i don't even give that crap any thought. I'm not about to be driven crazy by anything. If anything, i basically laugh at it, ridicule it at every opportunity, and keep it moving.
the thing I find is ironic, is that so many atheists still celebrate Christmas and Easter.
that's hypocrisy.
why celebrate the birth and crucifixion if you do not believe in the Lord?
For you they're about the birth and crucifixion. For me they're about being with family, and remembering that we are there for one another. I'd consider calling it another name, but then that'd be akward, because we don't talk about religious differences between our Catholic, Methodist, atheist, and deist relatives.
the thing I find is ironic, is that so many atheists still celebrate Christmas and Easter.
that's hypocrisy.
why celebrate the birth and crucifixion if you do not believe in the Lord?
Jesus wasn't born on Christmas, even if he was, Christmas for many, even Christians, isn't about religion anymore, at least not in the USA, unless you mean the religion of commerce
I don't know any atheists who celebrate Easter, unless you consider buying chocolate bunnies and painting eggs a celebration.
I can separate tradition from faith quite well. I still call the 5th day of the week Thursday even though I do not believe in Thor.
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