Screenwriter needs Atheist insight

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1) What is the general feeling towards the Holiday by you as an atheist?

I do not celebrate them. I usually do not give them any thought until others mention the holidays, as you have done with this questionnaire..

2) What are your feelings towards the display of Christmas lights on houses?

Garish and unnecessary.

3) What are your feelings about Christmas displays in stores?

Mere commercial propaganda to get people to purchase the items.

4) What are your feelings about the mad dash for gifts?

Silly and unnecessary.

5) What are your feelings about it being a federally recognized holiday?

*shrugs*

6) What are your feelings about people telling their children that Santa is real?

Just as wrong as informing them that god is real.

7) What are your feelings towards Carolers or Christmas music on the radio?

Tune out the carolers and change the radio station.

8) What are your feelings about how non-atheists perceive atheists?

I honestly do not care how others perceive me.

9) Do you as an atheist celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah?

Nope.

10) What are your feelings towards the Christmas people who start decorating their house before Halloween?

They're insane.

11) If you could ask those that celebrate Christmas to change one thing (or several things) about it - what would it (they) be?

Only that it not be recognized as the date of Jesus' birth. The man who never existed was not even born around that time. Early Christians only made his birth coincide with the Winter Solstice to make conversions from paganism easier.

12) At what point in your life did you realize you were an atheist?

In my early twenties.

13) Did you ever have a "coming out" moment as an atheist? How was it received?

Not really, though I did have the sexual coming out experience.

14) As an atheist, what is your goal or intention about informing others that disagree with you about your stance?

I have no goal to proselytize to anyone, for starters. I enjoy online debates, but that is as far as I have ever discussed my beliefs with anyone in particular depth. In real life, informing someone that I am an atheist rarely presents itself.

15) If you do not celebrate Christmas - do you do anything in particular on Christmas day to celebrate anything at all? Family? A nice dinner with a loved one?

Nope. I do the same thing on December twenty-fifth that I do on any other day.