How Do Atheists Celebrate Christmas?
How do atheists celebrate Christmas? That’s the question posed by the always articulate Dinesh D’souza here.
The added question, for me, is WHY do atheists celebrate Christmas?
Oh, I see. Parties and booze. Parties and presents. That’s the ticket.
I don’t know. It seems pretty disingenuous to me. I would not trouble myself to observe a major holy day of a religion I disbelieved. Even worse. Many of the new atheists are not just a-theists. They are anti-theists. If religion, and Christianity in particular, is responsible for the bulk of this world’s woes as some claim, then why would they commemorate the birth of its founder? I guess it’s the parties, the booze and the presents.
UPDATE: See my related post at Concordia TheoBLOGical Seminary.
Athiest? Perhaps autotheist.
Dan
necessaryroughness.org
24 Dec 07 at 2:59 am
Im an athiest who’d love to not be.
Ive grown up in a culture that *does* celebrate christmas, and not the birth of christ, most people I know are only mildly religious.
Christmas has become a tradition, instead of for a particular purpose.
If I asked most people I know, regardless of faith, theyd say its a time where family gathers, we look to the new year with hope, we show our love for each other by sharing gifts, tokens of that love.
The Parties are just a vehicle to achieve this, the drinking a side-effect.
Zoe
10 Nov 08 at 6:59 am