Silly Atheists! Christmas is for Christians
Ever notice that a lot of non-Christians celebrate Christmas?
It’s officially Christmas season now, so of course you’ve probably already been inundated with commercials, non-stop Christmas music radio, early-bird Christmas cards, and holiday decorations. Still, through the shuffle of our busy lives, these facts don’t change that Christmas is a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
Yet atheists* often insist on celebrating it along with the rest of us. For example, take Richard Dawkins, a famous atheist (especially if you’ve seen “South Park”), who said “I like singing carols with everybody else” and called himself a “cultural Christian.”
Uh, what?
Lots of atheists actually think this way, and of course have a bunch of rationalizations reasons for why they celebrate Christmas. Here’s what atheists say allows them to celebrate Christmas:
- “Christmas has been commercialized to the point that it’s unrecognizable as a religious holiday, and is instead a cultural holiday that all can enjoy. Santa Claus is a secular myth!”
- “Atheists may not believe in it, but they can still have fun with family and friends anyway.”
- “Even Christians don’t put meaning into Christmas, so why should atheists?”
- “Christmas started out as a pagan holiday or something!”
And here are my responses to each of those:
- How many G.I. Joe’s are sold during the holidays is irrelevant. No amount of commercialism changes the meaning behind Christmas. Atheists are just rationalizing why they’re “going with the flow” because it’s easier.
- Atheists SHOULD feel free to partake in the festivities - all are welcome. Your beliefs are your problem, not mine.
- The degree of meaning you perceive Christians to put behind Christmas doesn’t change that Christmas is still celebrated in Churches across the land. Think about it: the excuse of “Christians don’t even seem to care!” is pretty weak. Come on. Really? That’s the REASON to celebrate? Again, just a rationalization for being able to go with the flow.
- Christians are free to take any tradition - say Columbus Day, for example - and turn it into a Christian religious holiday, whereby it becomes a day of Christian meaning. Any religion can do that.
Now, I’m not saying Christians should exclude atheists from Christmas. That would be unChristian of us, wouldn’t it? In fact, I’d prefer it if atheists WOULD celebrate Christmas, because Christmas rules and is a shining example of the greatness that is Christianity.
But atheists, like Richard Dawkins, shouldn’t marginalize it themselves by pretending it’s not a religious holiday. If you have a beef with it, don’t attack our beliefs.
Don’t pretend you can be a “cultural Christian” when in reality you just want to secularize Christmas so that you don’t have to rationalize reasons to celebrate.
*In this post, “atheists” refers generally to non-religious types including agnostics who don’t subscribe to Christianity. I can’t include Jews and Muslims, of course. Unlike many atheists they don’t, uh, celebrate Christian holidays.
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