Tag: Agnostic

How can you be atheist but still celebrate Christmas? #stupid #hypocrites #stupdi #sutpdi

— casey (@muzaktheory) December 21, 2012

https://twitter.com/yyyssa/status/281963966169767936

https://twitter.com/jsanfordd/status/271459739307765760

https://twitter.com/GrantMathias/status/415595890179448833

https://twitter.com/itswojtek/status/415530785287192576

You people are funny.

No, no. You got it all backwards. It is you, Christians, who hijacked Christmas from the Pagans’ celebration called Saturnalia, that is the Christmas that you celebrate nowadays.  It used to be a year-end celebration of the solstice that involved decorating trees, giving presents, and throwing parties. But if you’re an adult and you don’t know this, it’s probably because you can’t be bothered to even google it, in which case it’s totally fine — you have the right to reject knowledge, and rejoice in your cultivated ignorance.

No, no. Christians hijacked the Pagans' Saturnalia into #Christmas. You have no moral ground to call #atheist-s "hypocrites". #atheism #xmas

— Monica McGee (@Monicks) December 21, 2012

But you don’t have the right to call atheists “hypocrites”!

Let me break it down for you:

It would be hypocritical of us to celebrate Christmas if we celebrated, like Christians do, Jesus’ birth, then you would be right to call atheists ‘hypocrites”, but we couldn’t care less about Jesus and his fake designated date of birth. It is not our fault that the hijackers called it “Christmas”. **I** don’t call it “Christmas”.

https://twitter.com/McGeekiest/status/415626614488051712

Being an atheist on Christmas is like being a vegetarian on Thanksgiving. You don’t feast on that part of the banquet that most people think is key, but you can enjoy all the sides and make whatever you want as the main course.

We just go with the flow. We are thankful for the—often mandatory—days off work, and the family gatherings that we don’t have the time to organize and attend in any other time of the year. Some of us do enjoy our families. We have an “excuse” to give our loved ones presents, and many of our family members are Christians, so we indulge them, because we love them.

So it is you, dear Christian, who are celebrating a Pagan celebration… but I won’t tell you that you are the one who deserves to be called a hypocrite… because that is implicit. (◕‿~)✿