Claire Allen wrote:
I'm not quite sure how Father Christmas can offend people from other
faiths when he is not exactly a religious symbol himself.
I too am an Atheist and I celebrate Christmas as the winter solstice
festival that was hijacked when Christianity came to this country. And
if
Not only am *I* a dyed-in-the-wool atheist
Me too. Last year, while writing a Christmas card to my neighbours, I did
stop to wonder why an atheist was sending a Christmas card to a Muslim
family!
When I was a Catholic, a long, long time ago, I used to think that
non-Christians who celebrated
Annette wrote:
Then I realised that there's been a mid-winter festival here long
before the Christians co-opted it for Christmas, so I have a perfect right
to celebrate that :)
One year we decided to celebrate Roman Saturnalia instead of Christmas. I
did a lot of research on this but in
Annette wrote
Me too. Last year, while writing a Christmas card to my neighbours, I
did
stop to wonder why an atheist was sending a Christmas card to a Muslim
family!
When I was a Catholic, a long, long time ago, I used to think that
non-Christians who celebrated Christmas were trying to have
It's not so silly to send christmas cards to Muslims as I received many from
over the years. I've worked in university libraries all my working life and
Muslim students like to send Christmas cards to the library staff and to their
tutors. One of my part-timers, married to a lecturer, used to
On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:43, Helene Gannac wrote:
You wouldn't catch my DH making Xmas presents, cooking Xmas food or
writing Xmas cards
Hah! I came, I fought, I conquered :)
Not only am *I* a dyed-in-the-wool atheist (I believe in a moral
compass, but it's not directed by a god of any kind), but
Normally I'd switch this to chat, but since people on lace have been complaining
about few emails, I figure they won't mind...
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:34:46AM -0500, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:43, Helene Gannac wrote:
You wouldn't catch my DH making Xmas presents,
