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[quote=Anonymous][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]

To the second poster -- apparently plenty of Americans celebrate Xmas (95%), but don't go to church on Xmas eve or Xmas day (62% go to church).  So, about 33% of Americans celebrate Xmas in some way without going to church.  If you think Xmas is primarily a religious holiday, you are naive.  Xmas, in practice, is primarily a commercial season... especially the santa aspect.  
The secular has far overtaken the religious.[/quote]

And it's not just that the secular has recently taken over the religious- many (most?) christmas traditions were not religious to begin with.  They are artifacts of winter solstice celebrations and observences that Christians have laid claim to and ignorantly believe were always "theirs."[/quote]

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