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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point is NOT that anybody is butthurt that you're celebrating Christmas. So stop already with the dumb deflection of "don't tell us how to celebrate Christmas", because that's not the question being asked here.

The point is, WHY? It would be like me celebrating Eid or Hannukah, and then bitching about the gifts and visiting relatives. 
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Where in the bible does it say "Christmas" is about exchanging gifts and visiting relatives???

I would totally understand if Christians celebrated Christmas by leaving gifts at the altar in churches, in an re-enactment the Magi, with the intention of those gifts going to baby Jesus.  But giving grandpa a sweater?  It's not grandpa's birthday.  It's Jesus' birthday.  So why is grandpa getting a sweater???

If non-Christians were leaving those gifts at church, or taking the time to go to Bethlehem, maybe I'd understand your total confusion and frustration.  But from what I see, non-Christians are celebrating all the non-Christian aspects of the holiday.  What I don't get is why you Christians have added these non-Christian aspects to your holiday in the first place.  Maybe the real thing is to stop blaming us and start blaming yourself for appropriating practices that have nothing to do with Jesus' birthday.[/quote]

Oh please.... Stop with the blame-talk already. And explain why you want anything to do with this holiday that still has many religious aspects. TIA!  [/quote]

What religious aspects do you see atheists celebrating?

My family has a tree and stockings and gives presents and we have a big family dinner.  We play board games and video games all day. We donate some toys to Toys for Tots and we give some money to Heifer International and Doctors without Borders. We bake cookies and donate stuff to the school.  My kids participate in the school Christmas concert which is mostly secular music.   We watch some Christmas specials -- this year we watched Phineas and Ferb and Lady Gag and the Muppets.

We don't do Santa or go to church or listen to a lot of religious Christmas music. We don't listen to a lot of Christmas music, period, because it tends to suck.  We don't do advent calendars. We don't read the Bible story of the Birth. We don't go to Christmas plays with religious themes. We don't go to music events with religious themes.

We're way  more on the Saturnalia end of the celebration than the Christian end of the celebration.

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