Tuesday 3 January 2012

Agnosticism / Atheism: Comment of the Week: Christians Don't Own Christmas

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Comment of the Week: Christians Don't Own Christmas
Jan 3rd 2012, 08:00

Some Christians get really upset when confronted with the fact that they don't 'own' Christmas -- that Christmas is a holiday which has been secularized and which is enjoyed by non-Christians. What's more, the 'arguments' many try to offer in rebuttal to this reality can be quite sad.

Ricky responds in comments to a Christian named stormy:

stormy wrote: "I dont get mad when i break a mirror and someone says ill have bad luck. So leave my Christmas alone. Its a birthday party for MY family."

Christmas can be whatever you want it to be. No one is denying you that.

The issue is that a court has decided that Christmas is not exclusively Christian. If you agree with the court, you may go home and celebrate Christmas. If you disagree with the court, then I expect you to write your congressman to revoke Christmas as a legal holiday. You may then use one of your vacation days and go home and celebrate Christmas. Win-win.

> "I believe that every non-Believer is a project for a Christian."

You ask to be left alone, and then have the balls to withhold from us the same courtesy? WWJD?

> "Its our obligation to spread Gods word and SAVE the lost."

That's your religion, not mine. Leave me alone.

> "And if ANYONE believes that this world without Christianity would be ok.....oh boy.....glad i wont ever have to see that."

You have an inaccurate view of history. Christianity is what brought Europe the Dark Ages and bloody sectarian wars for centuries. Christianity is now dying across Europe, and they seem no worse off for it. (If you're thinking about communism, that isn't simply a case of being without Christianity; it is a case of forcibly replacing one authoritarian system with another, which is not what American secularists are advancing.)

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Stormy's expectations of privileged treatment are astounding but Ricky does an excellent job at pointing them out. First she wants to insist that only she and fellow Christians should be allowed to make decisions about Christmas, but then she also seems to want Christmas to be treated like a public holiday for everyone. She wants to be "left alone," but then she intends to go out and bother non-Christians because they are "projects" (not people, "projects") which she feels obligated to "save."

Apparently, "Do unto others..." is not a principle such Christians care very much about.

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