D'you know what really pisses me off? It's the old chestnut when we atheists think we have to defend the fact that we celebrate the 'christian' holidays Christmas and Easter.
The religious nu... (ahem!) believer dribbles something like "ah but you celebrate Christmas; a christian festival - Christ's Mass etc yada yada" and the atheist will splutter "ah but Christmas has it roots in the pre-christian era blahdy blah"
I couldn't give a crap about what Christmas or Easter used to mean back in the bronze age. All I know is that as a kid Christmas meant time off school, exciting plastic crap and Mary Poppins, and Easter meant time off school, chocolate to the point of vomiting and possibly Mary Poppins. Now they both mean time off work and couch potating to copious quantities of DVDs. Is that worth celebrating? You bet your comfy bottom it is!
So Atheists, next time a holy buffoon accuses you of hypocrisy let's not get bogged down in the 'ah but history says' argument. The argument about whether God told Adam the first lie or whether the serpent was the good guy in their story book is much more fun.
Stratt
The religious nu... (ahem!) believer dribbles something like "ah but you celebrate Christmas; a christian festival - Christ's Mass etc yada yada" and the atheist will splutter "ah but Christmas has it roots in the pre-christian era blahdy blah"
I couldn't give a crap about what Christmas or Easter used to mean back in the bronze age. All I know is that as a kid Christmas meant time off school, exciting plastic crap and Mary Poppins, and Easter meant time off school, chocolate to the point of vomiting and possibly Mary Poppins. Now they both mean time off work and couch potating to copious quantities of DVDs. Is that worth celebrating? You bet your comfy bottom it is!
So Atheists, next time a holy buffoon accuses you of hypocrisy let's not get bogged down in the 'ah but history says' argument. The argument about whether God told Adam the first lie or whether the serpent was the good guy in their story book is much more fun.
Stratt
