A Very Atheist Christmas - 666 Words On Atheist XMas

[Kylyssa]

Christian Christmas uses such icons as reindeer, mistletoe, Santa Claus, snowmen and pine trees. Since these are all respected religious tenets of Christianity I propose that we, as atheists, should avoid co-opting them for our own Christmas celebrations.  
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[MariaEvri]

nice
a merry atheist chrismiss to you!

[LARA]

Good satire.  The witchy side of me will be celebrating Yule this season and have no reservations about the Catholic church trying to possess these ancient practices for conversion purposes.  In fact, I might even go so far as to set out a creche depicting the stages of evolution in plastic toys that culminates in a happy baby Jesus.  Who said I can't have dinosaurs in my manger?

[jrosebud]

Good satire.  The witchy side of me will be celebrating Yule this season and have no reservations about the Catholic church trying to possess these ancient practices for conversion purposes.  In fact, I might even go so far as to set out a creche depicting the stages of evolution in plastic toys that culminates in a happy baby Jesus.  Who said I can't have dinosaurs in my manger?

must. post. pictures.

[Asmodean]

This Crissmiss I plan on having a normal day just like every other, except no school. BUT I take the challenge of carving His Flying Noodleness from dough  

[Squid]

Christmas is a mixture of solstice celebrations.  If I remember correctly, the exchange of gifts and feasting goes back to old Roman celebrations, the mistletoe is even older as is decorating a tree.  I think Christmas was even banned by the Puritans in Boston for like two decades.

[karadan]

I don't consider christmas a religious ceremony. I grew up getting presents from my family once a year because it was christmas. My family never discussed its root in christianity and it was only as i entered primary school that teachers started telling me what it was all about. Nativity plays etc.

I still never really made that connection though. I knew that it was a celebration of the birth of Christ, but when christmas came, all i cared about was the fact that it was an ace day with my family, lots of presents and some darn good cookin'.

Christmas, to me, is all about telling your family how much you love them and then endulging in rich food and booze. I usually stock up on indigestion remedies way before christmas haha.

If someone tells me i'm not allowed to use christian items to celebrate christmas then they can shove their views up their ass I'll continue to use religious iconography at crimbo purely because it is tradition and it reminds me of how awesome my family are. To not decorate christmas with these objects would be to sanitise christmas completely.

Just because i have a crimbo tree doesn't mean i believe in the baby jebus.

[Asmodean]

You know, the sad thing about christmas being a nice time with the family is when the family is not a nice company around that time of year. Some people's idea of having quality time is getting shit-faced, beating the crap out of the kids and drinking even more after that.   They are few, but many enough to ruin that particular point in my opinion.

[Kylyssa]

Christmas is a mixture of solstice celebrations.  If I remember correctly, the exchange of gifts and feasting goes back to old Roman celebrations, the mistletoe is even older as is decorating a tree.  I think Christmas was even banned by the Puritans in Boston for like two decades.

Exactly.  Basically every trapping of Christmas except the nativity scenes comes from various Roman and European religious or traditional festivities practiced long before Christianity nosed its way into the solstice celebrations.

[LARA]

jrosebud wrote:  must. post. pictures.

Well you got me.  I don't own a creche.

[Kylyssa]

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