[ExI] Impending Newtonmass... what should I buy the atheistinmylife?
Stathis Papaioannou
stathisp at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 12:27:26 UTC 2008
2008/12/22 Olga Bourlin <fauxever at sprynet.com>:
> Yes there is. It's easy - one can simply ignore Christ-mass (I've done it
> for 25 years). And If I didn't grow up in a cultural Christian household to
> begin with, there would be nothing to ignore. Even with the secular
> components that have been added to Christ-mass, many "other" religious
> groups do not do Christ-mass.
This is actually hard to do at this time of year, even as an atheist
in a mostly secular country. People say "have a good Christmas" and
you feel it requires at least a brief standard response, or no amount
of rationalisation will prevent you from looking like an dissocial
grump.
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Stathis Papaioannou
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