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Why do you keep calling it christmas? Why don't you just say Happy Years End? It's just a habit and can easily be broken. Let the christians call it christmas, and atheists can call it something else, so simple, then everyones happy. Just do it!

Helen
Sort of agree there's a lot more to Xmas than Jesus. Love the weird bit between Xmas and New Year, when you need to get out of the house because you've eaten too much, need fresh air, can't watch another terrible Film on TV, and you've spent too much time with loved ones.
Without that week Winter would just get people down.

What a load of twoddle. How can you celebrate Christmas when you don't believe in the birth of Jesus Christ. It's just another excuse to over indulge without the meaning. Do you celebrate hannukah? Do you celebrate Chinese new year?if you don't believe there should be nothing to celebrate.

None of these films represent me. I probably would be classed as an atheist, although maybe not because I happily sit on the fence regarding God. I celebrate at this time of year, my family do to and for us its more akin to the pre-Christian festivities than anything else. We avoid Christian symbolism because we're not Christian. That said we happily return Christmas wishes and will send a card with Christmas wishes upon it to those who do celebrate Christmas. All the 'atheists' I know do the same. Just because we're celebrating different things at this time of year does not preclude us from wishing others a Happy ..... -- I have friends from various religions as well as 'atheist' friends and so send out wishes at this time of year that cover each of their beliefs.
Do I enjoy 'pagan' winter festivities? Yes.
Do I enjoy Christmas? Of course not I'm not Christian.
I would no more presume to involve myself with Christian festivities than I would for Hanukkah or any other religious festival, barring returning well wishes to those kind enough to think of me at their special time of year.
Whatever you celebrate may you have a wonderful time and a lovely 2012.

The really big question about christmas should be, is it ok for so called christian to celebrate the birth of Jesus when the bible does not ask us to & is it ok for the so called christian church to have adopted a pagan event originally known as 'saturnalia' & dress it up as a festival to celebrate jesus's birth? Paganism is the worship of flase gods, whereas the bible clearly states 'worship no other god than me'! The devil is doing a great job in 'misleading the whole of the inhabited world' again as stated in the bible. Why do people just follow one another like'sheep' instead of asking themselves the real reasons why they do the things they do by researching the origins of festivals such christmas/saturnalia, the answers are out there, 'seek & ye shall find'