Claire Allen wrote:
I'm not quite sure how Father Christmas can offend people from other
faiths when he is not exactly a religious symbol himself.
I too am an Atheist and I celebrate Christmas as the winter solstice
festival that was hijacked when Christianity came to this country. And
if peopl
Annette wrote
Me too. Last year, while writing a Christmas card to my neighbours, I
did
stop to wonder why an atheist was sending a Christmas card to a Muslim
family!
When I was a Catholic, a long, long time ago, I used to think that
non-Christians who celebrated Christmas were trying to have t
Annette wrote:
Then I realised that there's been a mid-winter festival here long
before the Christians co-opted it for Christmas, so I have a perfect right
to celebrate that :)
One year we decided to celebrate Roman Saturnalia instead of Christmas. I
did a lot of research on this but in the
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Me too. Last year, while writing a Christmas card to my neighbours, I did
stop to wonder why an atheist was sending a Christmas card to a Muslim
family!
When I was a Catholic, a long, long time ago, I used to think that
non-Christians who celebrated Christmas were trying to have their cake an
Normally I'd switch this to chat, but since people on lace have been complaining
about few emails, I figure they won't mind...
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:34:46AM -0500, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:43, Helene Gannac wrote:
>
> >You wouldn't catch my DH making Xmas presents, coo
On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:43, Helene Gannac wrote:
You wouldn't catch my DH making Xmas presents, cooking Xmas food or
writing Xmas cards
Hah! I came, I fought, I conquered :)
Not only am *I* a dyed-in-the-wool atheist (I believe in a moral
compass, but it's not directed by a god of any kind), but bot
