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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't tell from your post, but do you actually celebrate Christmas?  [b]If you don't believe in God, yet celebrate Christmas[/b], I don't see how adding Santa to the mix is so terrible.[/quote]

These are contradictory positions. You know this, right? Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. It's not a secular holiday. It takes some really serious cognitive dissonance to profess no belief in God and then celebrate Christmas. A belief that Jesus is the son of God is the baseline for all of this, even the sillier secular traditions that go along with it (and which I see no harm in). You really can't cherrypick this stuff.[/quote]

I'm an atheist, and we celebrate secular Christmas.  We can participate in the cultural aspects (trees, presents, Santa)  of Christmas without believing in it. We totally cherry pick it and it works just fine.

As far as the root of the holiday,  my kids get an explanation of that, just like they get an explanation of the religious roots of Halloween, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, and Valentine's Day.  It's part of their cultural heritage. They also get explanations of Diwali, rosh Hashanah, Imbolc, and other religious holidays from other faiths that are NOT part of their cultural heritage.

BTW, that's why we told our kids that Santa isn't real. We're atheists. Santa is a a gateway drug to believing in religion. [/quote]

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