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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]

I don't dispute that. It's a festival of consumerism, but what these people celebrate really isn't "Christmas."

Look, I'm not one of these "War on Christmas" or "put Christ back in Christmas" types. Really, I'm not.

I am simply pointing out that it's really weird to celebrate the traditions that are hallmarks of the faith and not share a fundamental belief in what drives the holiday in the first place. Maybe it's just a form of being a lemming who lacks critical thinking skills and going along to get along, but it's tremendously inconsistent. But I find it appalling that a self-professed "atheist" in particular would celebrate. This is not some anthropological thing, where you're in a strange land and experiencing some local custom, a "when in Rome" situation. Have some conviction in your beliefs. If you don't believe in God, why celebrate a holiday that is built around the birth of his Son?[/quote]

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