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Christmas or X-mas?

I was walking through Home Depot yesterday, and saw that they had up a Christmas display. Personally I think that there should be a law against putting up Christmas decorations and playing Christmas songs before Thanksgiving. Anyway, it got me thinking. All the Atheists I know celebrate Christmas. I think we should keep the Christ in Christmas and give it to the Christians. Instead, we should celebrate X-mas. Any thoughts?

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Permalink Reply by Jacob Gladden on November 20, 2009 at 8:12pm

I celebrate X-mas. I call it that and everything. What I want is some X-mas music!

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Permalink Reply by Shawn M. on November 20, 2009 at 9:33pm

This is exactly what I was thinking when I posted, but I didn't know how many people heard of Futurama. I also thought about calling it A-mas like Jeff suggested or Atheiestmas, which sounded kind of corney to me. I just wanted people to have fun with it. Thanks for posting the Video.

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Permalink Reply by Trance Gemini on November 21, 2009 at 5:40am

How about Christ-myth? Lol.

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Permalink Reply by Shawn M. on November 21, 2009 at 8:38am

Love Christmyth. Thats too funny.

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Permalink Reply by Trance Gemini on November 21, 2009 at 9:10am

Well Merry Christmyth to ya then (that was the blog heading on my Christmas post last year :-)

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Permalink Reply by Trance Gemini on November 21, 2009 at 3:17pm

Great! May I steal the image for my Christmyth blog this year (I'll give credit to you :-).

Permalink Reply by Trance Gemini on November 21, 2009 at 4:21pm

Thanks! Much appreciated.

Permalink Reply by NS Tuco on November 29, 2009 at 10:32pm

This is genius.

Permalink Reply by Goz on November 23, 2009 at 9:23pm

Ohhhh,I do like the way your mind works!

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Permalink Reply by Secular Forces 2013 on November 20, 2009 at 9:02pm

xmas? wtf is that
we're at 11.x unemployment and rising!?
more to come w/out proper tech and green solutions education

fzuck xmans
there are no so much lights as compared to 10 years ago down here in 33024
any lights that are up have blood money on them
who can afford the damn FPL bill!??!?!?

arrest Charlie Crist and Rothstein at the same time already!

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Permalink Reply by Klaus Motan on November 21, 2009 at 4:18am

...no matter how it´s called, or if it´s a pagan or a christian festivity, it comes from religion, including the existence of "god" or "gods", and as an Atheist you decided not to belive in this humbug. For sure it´s good to have some "free" days, but as it´s a "religious" "holy"day, you simply shouldn´t celebrate...

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Permalink Reply by vjack on November 21, 2009 at 3:36pm

I don't celebrate it, so what to call it isn't much of an issue for me. I admit that I have very little understanding as to why an atheist would want to be a "cultural Christian," but it doesn't bother me that others find it worth celebrating. I just don't happen to share their sentiment.