(December 21, 2016 at 4:34 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: When I first walked away from Christianity, of course I refused to answer people when they wished me a merry Christmas. I was surrounded by Christians in the buckle of the Bible belt. I couldn’t say what I wanted to say, but I’d be damned if I’d let them force me to say what I did not want to say.
That was twelve years ago. Today my opinion of Christianity has not changed, b the emotional need to distance myself from everything associated with god has mellowed. Now I remember that as a child Christmas was the only morning when nobody was fussing over whose turn it was in the bathroom.
Now I know that Jesus was never the “reason for the season.” The early church did not celebrate Christmas or Easter. The first Christmas was celebrated in Rome. That’s here all the pagan symbolism came from (I know someone here will correct me if I’m wrong, but until then, I’m right.) So I have a totally humanistic, secular view of Christmas. I let the serotonin flow through my brain and enjoy it.
Christians can celebrate Christmas despite its pagan connotations. I'd be damned if I can't be bigger than any whinny Christian.
