I used to be here long ago. Just kinda felt like making a profile for the oldschool-factor. I hand out unbiased, unadulterated advice. I am a Christian and I think anything otherwise would be unacceptable (that would be partiality and dishonesty). I do not give confirming evidence for people's suspicions simply because they want to hear it. Questions sex in particular do not appeal to me, so please don't beg me for the best way to arouse someone. I probably will not answer.
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Isn't Christmas about the birth of Jesus and one of God's biggest miracles? So why do most atheist still celebrate it? (link)
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First bit of advice since forever (I think I used to be a level 2 mod here at one point, way back before we had 3000 columnists). This one intrigues me a bit.
I'm a Christian, and interestingly enough I agree with the aforementioned advice. There's no specific evidence pointing to Christ's birth being on December 25; it is more likely that it was spring or summer. The December 25 date was pretty much set arbitrarily; I'm not recalling any pagan holidays.
Anyway, Christmas has lost so much of the original meaning that even Christians are not quite sure what they're celebrating. Atheists are just mostly caught up in the same commercialism that all the religious people are in, too.
If humans were not so hypocritical, Christians wouldn't be into all the commercialism (rather opting for a strict celebration of Christ's birth and nothing more), and Atheists wouldn't be celebrating it at all. But it's a psychological human tendency to do what everyone else is doing, and I'm guilty of it, as well.
Hope that answers your question on both accounts!
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