Texas City Pulls nativity, despite objections of atheists.

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PERFECT! Thank you! You just repealed the argument you attempted to make about people who avow in name, atheist, i.e. no-god , celebrate god's birthday!

Did I? You said yourself that Christianity is a tradition. People follow traditions all the time without believing in them.
 
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Do you celebrate Jesus' birthday?
I'm a humanist not a Christian.
If I were all about material gain couched as an excuse to celebrate the holy day of my neighbors, I'd buy loads of gifts for myself, wrap them and then open them on December 25th morning. As it is, I do not.
What I do do on and prior to that Christian's Christmas day is give money to the local shelters, food to the local food banks, and money to those who beg for attention and cash and live outside. Because one does not have to be religious to realize there is always something to be thankful for. In the case of my giving I am thankful in this economy to afford to give others cause to give thanks with my giving.

How about you?


Which by the way, is really not December 25th.
Tell that to the atheists that admit they don't realize this when they claim they celebrate Christ's mass on December 25th.
 
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I'm a humanist not a Christian.
If I were all about material gain couched as an excuse to celebrate the holy day of my neighbors, I'd buy loads of gifts for myself, wrap them and then open them on December 25th morning. As it is, I do not.
What I do do on and prior to that Christian's Christmas day is give money to the local shelters, food to the local food banks, and money to those who beg for attention and cash and live outside. Because one does not have to be religious to realize there is always something to be thankful for. In the case of my giving I am thankful in this economy to afford to give others cause to give thanks with my giving.

How about you?


Tell that to the atheists that admit they don't realize this when they claim they celebrate Christ's mass on December 25th.

I was a Christian for 40 years, so I have always celebrated Christmas and have since moving away from Christianity.

On Jesus birthday; I tend to think more atheists know it isn't December 25th than Christians, based on my experience.
 
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I was a Christian for 40 years, so I have always celebrated Christmas and have since moving away from Christianity.

On Jesus birthday; I tend to think more atheists know it isn't December 25th than Christians, based on my experience.
I've never known an atheist to celebrate the birth of the son of a god that doesn't exist. The son would not come into existence because the father god doesn't exist. Be the date in spring or winter it is illogical that a son can be born at any time when no thing that would have created the son exists. One has to predate the other in order for the latter to make sense of the former.
 
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I've never known an atheist to celebrate the birth of the son of a god that doesn't exist.
Then you must not know very many atheists. Just about all the ones I know celebrate Christmas, myself included.
 
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What would make you think anyone here is obligated to count the number of times you've admitted you're not an atheist?

Atheists don't celebrate Christ's mass.
If someone who calls themselves an atheist does celebrate December 25th, they're doing it for the material gain in receiving gifts.
Christmas is an exclusive celebration honoring the birth of the Christian's god in the form of the Christ child Jesus.

I'm glad you're here to tell me the reasons why I do and don't do things.

That's also not all that "Christmas" is. Clearly.

Sure, atheism is afforded protections. However, atheism doesn't celebrate religious holy days.

Atheism doesn't. Atheists are free to.
 
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If I were all about material gain couched as an excuse to celebrate the holy day of my neighbors, I'd buy loads of gifts for myself, wrap them and then open them on December 25th morning. As it is, I do not.

Then, by the requirement you laid out here, I'm not "all about material gain couched as an excuse to celebrate the holy day of my neighbors", since I do not do that either.

And yet I'm still an atheist. Funny how that works.
 
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I'm glad you're here to tell me the reasons why I do and don't do things.
Seems only logical when those claiming to be atheists are so ready to tell the religious that atheism isn't a belief.
That's also not all that "Christmas" is. Clearly.
Really? What else is it exactly? When Christ's mass is precisely so and has been for generations. What else is it in matters of what the atheist believes about Christ's mass?



Atheism doesn't. Atheists are free to.
Sure. Of course, they have a very hard time identifying as atheist afterward given the holy day is very precise in matters of it being a Christian celebration.
You are aware of that right? Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ? Due to god, which does not exist according to the atheist, delivering his only begotten son upon the virgin Mary. After he sent an angel, that the atheist does not believe exists, to tell Mary of god's plan for her should she consent.
Being all of that starts with the god that isn't real, please explain how the 'godless", the atheist (Etymology= atheist =
atheist (n.)
1570s, from French athéiste (16c.), from Greek atheos "without god, denying the gods; abandoned of the gods; godless, ungodly," from a- "without" + theos "a god" (see theo-). The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all his perfection, creating an imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell. [Armand Salacrou, "Certitudes et incertitudes," 1943]), celebrates the birth of the god-man Christos (annointed) by will of the god that isn't there.
 
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Then, by the requirement you laid out here, I'm not "all about material gain couched as an excuse to celebrate the holy day of my neighbors", since I do not do that either.

And yet I'm still an atheist. Funny how that works.
Not really. :)
And if you're going to claim you're an atheist you should change your identity of "Humanist" on your profile.
 
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I'm glad you're here to tell me the reasons why I do and don't do things.

That's also not all that "Christmas" is. Clearly.



Atheism doesn't. Atheists are free to.

However, Atheism does drive a car. A Ford Fiesta. Atheism is considering getting a Fusion. It's better on gas.
 
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Not really. :)
And if you're going to claim you're an atheist you should change your identity of "Humanist" on your profile.
Oi, are we policing other people's labels now? Since when are atheism and humanism mutually exclusive?
 
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Sure. Of course, they have a very hard time identifying as atheist afterward given the holy day is very precise in matters of it being a Christian celebration.

You mean the tree in the living room? The commercialism? The jolly old fat guy in a red suit coming down the chimney? The candy canes? The wreaths? The egg nog? The socks on the mantle? Uncle Jack getting drunk and ruining everything? That Christian celebration?

I think atheists can probably sort through that.
 
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I've never known an atheist to celebrate the birth of the son of a god that doesn't exist. The son would not come into existence because the father god doesn't exist. Be the date in spring or winter it is illogical that a son can be born at any time when no thing that would have created the son exists. One has to predate the other in order for the latter to make sense of the former.

Well, now you know one.
 
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Not really. :)
And if you're going to claim you're an atheist you should change your identity of "Humanist" on your profile.
You claim to be a humanist, yet are unaware that atheists can be humanists. The two are not mutually exclusive positions.

Also, it is against the rules to suggest someone is not the faith they identify as on their profile.
 
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