Christmas is what people make it to be. Thus to me, Christmas is really about crass consumerism, crowds, intrusive and obnoxious music & lights & advertisement, forced & insincere cheeriness, difficulty to buy anything or getting anywhere and lastly obligatory holiday at a time I cannot use free time meaningfully.
Christmas for an atheist is about picking the bits you like and discarding those you don’t. A glass of white wine in the sun, shared with a close friend, will do me.
John Moralessays
I’ve never thought much of that attitude, which amounts to the exception that proves the rule. I mean, there is one day per year where people are supposed to be nice and share goodwill and whatnot. What does that imply about the rest of the days of the year?
John Moralessays
KG @3, 🙂
On Christmas Day you can’t get sore
Your fellow man you must adore
There’s time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four
chigau (違う)says
My liquor store was closed.
Holmssays
Christmas is my day of maximum ham consumption. Some years, the family also gathers.
sonofrojblakesays
@ Lofty, 5:
“Christmas for an atheist is about picking the bits you like and discarding those you don’t.”
@sonofrojblake, not at all. I don’t have a minister to tell me what to do, or a congregation to reinforce my prejudices. And before you rabbit on about advertising, I have been resistant to the siren call of needless purchase since I took off the back of Mother’s black and white TV and wired the volume control to a small box by her side. Ads-be-stuffed.
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Christmas is what people make it to be. Thus to me, Christmas is really about crass consumerism, crowds, intrusive and obnoxious music & lights & advertisement, forced & insincere cheeriness, difficulty to buy anything or getting anywhere and lastly obligatory holiday at a time I cannot use free time meaningfully.
Merry Christmas!
The true spirit of Christmas!
Christians pushed to have Christmas be a national holiday, so now it belongs to all of us. The law of unintended consequences strikes again.
Christmas for an atheist is about picking the bits you like and discarding those you don’t. A glass of white wine in the sun, shared with a close friend, will do me.
I’ve never thought much of that attitude, which amounts to the exception that proves the rule. I mean, there is one day per year where people are supposed to be nice and share goodwill and whatnot. What does that imply about the rest of the days of the year?
KG @3, 🙂
On Christmas Day you can’t get sore
Your fellow man you must adore
There’s time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four
My liquor store was closed.
Christmas is my day of maximum ham consumption. Some years, the family also gathers.
@ Lofty, 5:
“Christmas for an atheist is about picking the bits you like and discarding those you don’t.”
So, like Christianity for a Christian?
@sonofrojblake, not at all. I don’t have a minister to tell me what to do, or a congregation to reinforce my prejudices. And before you rabbit on about advertising, I have been resistant to the siren call of needless purchase since I took off the back of Mother’s black and white TV and wired the volume control to a small box by her side. Ads-be-stuffed.