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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 experienicing 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]

That is like saying you can't enjoy Saturday if you don't worship Saturn.

Christmas has meant many things to different people over the centuries.  To us, it now means an opportunity to gather with family, to feast, and to exchange presents.  The birth of the sweet baby jesus is pretty much irrelevant to us.  I can assure you that the inconsistency in that is far less than the inconsistencies that litter the bible.[/quote]

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