Seeing as it's nearly xmas!...

Dave!

What are you people, sick? Lamb? Goose?!?

Turkey + Ham + gravy = FTW!!!

Zillah

robindch wrote:

In fact, we've been known to eat shrimps and wear clothes cut from two different cloths too, sometimes at the same time!

Shrimp?! But they're animals that inhabit the sea that have neither scales nor fins!

abetarrush

I dont think Christmas is much of a religious holiday anymore

Most people who celebrate it and consider themselves Catholic dont even know who Jesus is


I see it as more of a celebration of family and friends, and a nice chance to show some cheesy appreciation

Asiaprod

abetarrush wrote:

Most people who celebrate it and consider themselves Catholic dont even know who Jesus is

Thats a pretty sweeping statement, how did you arrive at that conclusion?

Asiaprod

Zillah wrote:

Shrimp?! But they're animals that inhabit the sea that have neither scales nor fins!

Sounds a bit like those carrion eating lions:rolleyes:

Nature Boy

aidan24326 wrote:

IFX wrote:

Christmas is not exclusively a Christian celebration . As Scofflaw said it's origins can be traced back to pagan festivals centred around the Winter Solstice. In fact there is considerable disagreement among historians as to when Jesus was born (not to mention whether he was born) with no evidence that it was late December, so as a celebration of Jesus' birthday and Christianity in general it is an arbitrary date which owes more (AFAIK) to ancient pagan rituals than the Christianity religions which now claim the day as their own.

So there is really no big deal with an atheist enjoying Christmas as a holiday season of reuniting with family, friends etc., outside of any religious context.
Personally I'm not a big fan as I dislike the in-your-face commercialism that just seems to get worse year after year. It has become a celebration of greed. That said, I won't say no to a few days off at any time.

I think I was misquoted there. I didn't actually say that... (I was quoted in the original message)

Nature Boy

Zillah wrote:

How casually you discuss the annihilation and consumption of other living entities!

These atheists have no morals.

Hmmmm. How many athiests are vegetarain/vegan too?? Maybe that's an idea for a new thread...

abetarrush

Asiaprod wrote:

Thats a pretty sweeping statement, how did you arrive at that conclusion?

I was speakin figuritively

Most people who say they're catholic dont go to mass at all, or pray etc

Dades

Ahem...

Wacker

DaveMcG wrote:

What are you people, sick? Lamb? Goose?!?

Turkey + Ham + gravy = FTW!!!

I find mysle disagreeing with the lot of you. The only meal to have at Christmas is Beef Wellington. Take a huge ass block of fillet steak, cover it in mushrooms and onions and pastry, add about six tons of spud, carrots, gravy, red wine, brandy, et all, and take ten years of your life. Now THAT is how you celebrate a time of year!

adam_ccfc

As far as I'm concerned, it's just like any other holiday - I get to drink exorbitant amounts of booze and sleep in all day, and religion doesn't even enter my mind, so it's fine by me.

Tar.Aldarion

Nature Boy wrote:

Hmmmm. How many athiests are vegetarain/vegan too?? Maybe that's an idea for a new thread...

Well, all the clever ones of course.

Thread away, and then we can have the 'How many vegetarian/vegan agnostics/atheists with swords are there?' thread.

rainbow kirby

I'm not a huge fan of Christmas (this will be my 5th Christmas working in retail, that's enough to truly kill one's soul!), but it's nice to have some time off college and to see some of my family members that I don't normally get to see.