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Poll for atheists - Do you still celebrate Christmas and why?
November 19, 2015 at 10:37 pm
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I myself do. Although not for any religious reasons, It just seems to me to be a good excuse to make kids happy. Am I a hypocrite for celebrating this holiday as an atheist?
I have no flipping clue how to add the polling options lol clicked "i want to post a poll" but theirs no where to add the options.
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RE: Poll for atheists - Do you still celebrate Christmas and why?
November 19, 2015 at 10:39 pm
It's a good excuse to get together with family and friends.
Of course, my mother is extremely Catholic, so she goes all out. along with many from her side of the family. Many from my Dad's side are johos, so they don't celebrate it at all and I'm glad to say we don't see them all that much.
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RE: Poll for atheists - Do you still celebrate Christmas and why?
November 19, 2015 at 10:40 pm
Yup. It's fun.
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RE: Poll for atheists - Do you still celebrate Christmas and why?
November 19, 2015 at 10:40 pm
Christmas is so commercialized that it's hardly even "in the name of Jesus" anymore.
If you really care, start calling it Newtonmas, they were both born on the same day, at least Isaac Newton has documentation.
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RE: Poll for atheists - Do you still celebrate Christmas and why?
November 19, 2015 at 10:41 pm
(November 19, 2015 at 10:40 pm)heatiosrs Wrote: Christmas is so commercialized that it's hardly even "in the name of Jesus" anymore.
If you really care, start calling it Newtonmas, they were both born on the same day, at least Isaac Newton has documentation.
Though he was heavily into alchemy.
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RE: Poll for atheists - Do you still celebrate Christmas and why?
November 19, 2015 at 10:44 pm
Yes, but it wouldn't make a difference to me if my family stopped seeing as how my birthday is a week before so I have to wait 51 weeks for a Gift-giving event anyway, what's another week?
Plus, it kicks off an insane domino effect of holidays and gift-giving things anyway (holidays and birthdays in rapid-fire succession), so it would make life so much easier if my family only celebrated birthdays.
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RE: Poll for atheists - Do you still celebrate Christmas and why?
November 19, 2015 at 10:55 pm
arrgh how did i double post this poll/question? fail
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RE: Poll for atheists - Do you still celebrate Christmas and why?
November 19, 2015 at 11:02 pm
Nothing wrong with joining in the festivities. You'll be inundated with that shit anyway, so you might as well make the most of it. Have a cup of eggnog or two. Or three. Heavy on the rum, easy on the nog.
Now go spread some holiday cheer, goddammit!
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RE: Poll for atheists - Do you still celebrate Christmas and why?
November 20, 2015 at 12:51 am
I celebrate, because, why the feck not? Its especially important now that I moved and only get home a few times a year
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: Poll for atheists - Do you still celebrate Christmas and why?
November 20, 2015 at 1:01 am
Yes. Being raised Christian, it's a cultural thing. Same for Easter. It's not much of a religious celebration anyway, and never really has been for me (well except for Christmas when we'd go to church back when I went to church, but that was a long time ago)
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