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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you explain it to your kids? 
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OMG how am I going to explain Christmas to my five year old???

Me:  It's Christmas!  Santa is coming!!!

Child:  YAY SANTA

end of explanation.[/quote]

I am am atheist raising my children in the Christian tradition. I tell them about Mary, the birth of Jesus, etc. They can have faith or not as adults. It's their call.

Oh, wait, OP, am I supposed to be on the street with some atheist agenda ranting against God? I must have lost that page in my Handbook for Atheists. [/quote]

I am the poster you are responding to.  Actually, I take my kids to a Unitarian church (I find it to be a system of ethics, not a faith) and my older child and I discuss mythology and world religions quite a bit.  I just find it amusing that the Op thinks it's somehow difficult or an obstacle to be overcome that we have to "explain" Christmas to kids.  We CAN, but we don't have to.  [/quote]

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