Are you the type that goes to church once a year for Xmas mass?
Do you celebrate the true meaning of Christmas as told by Linus on the Charlie Brown Christmas cartoon?
Do you get into the entire mass commercialism and enjoy spending your hard earned cash every year on $100s of dollars worth of gifts for everyone?
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Today the celebration of Christmas is so ubiquitous that people have trouble imagining large segments of society not celebrating Christmas or even objecting to its celebration - but that was the situation not too long ago. Many people are simply unaware of the fact that, in the English speaking world, Christmas was very nearly killed off by Protestant "fundamentalists" - Puritans who objected to Christmas so much that, wherever they held power, they passed laws banning it.
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The meaning of Christmas
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Kids tend to believe whatever they are told, because they are gullible and naïve. The brain of a child is shaped by evolution to absorb anything, good thing, bad thing, Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, unicorns, God, gods, and so on. It takes time before a child is grown up to realize that there is no such a thing as Santa Claus.
The question still remains: why is it easy for most people to rule out Santa Claus but not God from their life equation? I leave it up to you to answer this question.
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Why do we teach our children about Santa Claus? Is it simply a "good" fairytale that espouses good feelings for ALL children and teaches our kids a solid moral lesson?
Oh and for those interested...Atheists celebrate "Winter Solstice".
There were festivals and celebrations at the time of the winter solstice long before there was a Christian church, for a couple of centuries at least before Jesus may have lived.