As Kriston Capps says "I really love that we have Christmas, so [theism is] not all bad."
Quite so! And if an atheist can enjoy Christmas -- it's a commercial celebration of goodwill, Thanksgiving with presents -- then so can anyone.
I've always found the hesitation to publicly acknowledge that it's Christmas pretty funny. Is this an old-school upper-Midwestern/Yankee reserve about acknowledging faith? I can understand public organizations not using the "C word," but private companies? That makes less sense.
The best explanation will win a pavlova -- a traditional New Zealand Christmas dish. (Traditional in the sense that it's been done since the 1930s).
Posted by robe0419 at December 14, 2004 12:07 PM