Comments on: It’s Christmas — for Atheists? http://atheists.org/blog/2007/12/14/it_s_christmas_for_atheists A Blog of Atheist Thought Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: login8868 http://atheists.org/blog/2007/12/14/it_s_christmas_for_atheists/comment-page-1#comment-71883 login8868 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-71883 "Should we be embracing Christmas as a secular holiday? Should we call the Christmas Tree a CHRISTMAS TREE and celebrate it, very obviously, in a secular way?"<br /> <br /> Yes, we should!! This is exactly how it happens here in Switzerland - and there are less and less Christians. “Should we be embracing Christmas as a secular holiday? Should we call the Christmas Tree a CHRISTMAS TREE and celebrate it, very obviously, in a secular way?”

Yes, we should!! This is exactly how it happens here in Switzerland – and there are less and less Christians.

]]> By: dawnisis http://atheists.org/blog/2007/12/14/it_s_christmas_for_atheists/comment-page-1#comment-71884 dawnisis Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-71884 I tried not celebrating anything last year, but that was pretty lame.<br /> <br /> This year it's Festivus complete with spaghetti and the "Airing of the grievences". Having a big party next weekend.<br /> <br /> We have lights on our house and I decorate the inside with snowmen.<br /> <br /> I was raised as an atheist and we always had xmas, but the only thing I knew about was santa.<br /> <br /> We sang songs in elementary school like "silent night" and i swear I thought the whole manger stable story was, well, just a story.<br /> <br /> Religion doesn't register unless someone explains it. I tried not celebrating anything last year, but that was pretty lame.

This year it’s Festivus complete with spaghetti and the “Airing of the grievences”. Having a big party next weekend.

We have lights on our house and I decorate the inside with snowmen.

I was raised as an atheist and we always had xmas, but the only thing I knew about was santa.

We sang songs in elementary school like “silent night” and i swear I thought the whole manger stable story was, well, just a story.

Religion doesn’t register unless someone explains it.

]]> By: karen http://atheists.org/blog/2007/12/14/it_s_christmas_for_atheists/comment-page-1#comment-71886 karen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-71886 I've got no problem calling it a Christmas Tree. And yes, celebrate it secularly, heathen-ly, pagan-ly, or whatever-ly. The tree has nothing to do with Christianity, so we can claim it as a secular trapping of the solstice season.<br /> <br /> Ahhh...I miss MY Amb!en. The stuff I have now doesn't work nearly as well as Amb!en used to-before it quit working for me. The filter won't let me write Amb!en. How come Dave got away with it? I’ve got no problem calling it a Christmas Tree. And yes, celebrate it secularly, heathen-ly, pagan-ly, or whatever-ly. The tree has nothing to do with Christianity, so we can claim it as a secular trapping of the solstice season.

Ahhh…I miss MY Amb!en. The stuff I have now doesn’t work nearly as well as Amb!en used to-before it quit working for me. The filter won’t let me write Amb!en. How come Dave got away with it?

]]> By: what http://atheists.org/blog/2007/12/14/it_s_christmas_for_atheists/comment-page-1#comment-71889 what Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-71889 We could call it a Xmas Tree in honor of our triumph in the The War on Christmas and despite the fact that xians were the only combatants in the war. We could call it a Xmas Tree in honor of our triumph in the The War on Christmas and despite the fact that xians were the only combatants in the war.

]]> By: what http://atheists.org/blog/2007/12/14/it_s_christmas_for_atheists/comment-page-1#comment-71890 what Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-71890 We sure have a thing or two to teach the world about fighting wars now don't we? We sure have a thing or two to teach the world about fighting wars now don’t we?

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