So N-E-Waiz. Christmas is a cool pagan holiday. I used to get all Charlie Brown around the holidays, so I have lots of good individual memories, but sort of a morose feeling from my memories of the time of year. Most of that's gone though, mainly because I'm not a melodramatic, melancholy teenager anymore.
I'm actually excited to get through my first Christmas as an outed atheist among friends and family who take the religious aspect very seriously. It's only a matter of time before someone drops it amongst relatives and we end up with some awkward silences. Like the weirder-than-it-needs-to-be revelation people have when someone blurts out that I'm a vegetarian (others always feel the need to share this, as though it defines me at the dinner table)....then they seem to get all nervous, apologizing for any meat on the table and/or informing me what I can order off the menu. I chuckle inwardly at the absurdity, but it's amusing. Anyway, like that times 10.
Which will be good times, of course. I welcome such occurrences nowadays, though I won't actively seek them out.
Originally posted by SpearofDestinyDad forgets about you being the shame of the family over Christmas?
Christmas is a social holiday.I love Christmas, cuz I get gifts, and spend free valuabe time with my family that I rarely get the chance to spend. I don't care if it's "Christian" or "Pagan" in root.