# Any other atheists out there who love X-mas? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881 "2007-12-13T18:22:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/21 "2007-12-13T21:10:33Z")
I like Christmas because the carols (which I find mildly irritating) are invariably better than the pop/hip-hop that most businesses play. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/22 "2007-12-13T21:15:08Z")
Hello. My name is acsenray. I’m an atheist who loves Christmas … the lights, the trees, the songs, the television specials. My wife and I stay up to watch the first snowfall. Hot cocoa, mulled apple cider, egg nog. Mmmmmm. Charlie Brown, Rankin Bass, Charles Dickens. Hot stuff! I’ve been casually considering acquiring some mistletoe and holly to light up our atheistic-cum-paganistic Christmas celebration. Anyone know where I can get some? Hey, my parents have a fireplace. Is there still such thing as a yule log? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/23 "2007-12-13T21:18:03Z")
What’s not to love? Peace Love Family Rest and Relaxation Gifts! Good (if overplayed) Music Good Food ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/24 "2007-12-13T21:58:50Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Atheist, and just check my user name. Of course, my B-day is December 25th. [/QUOTE] Hmm. I always just assumed you had a curly black moustache and were madly in love with a wild gambling man. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/25 "2007-12-13T22:08:51Z")
Used to, before I stopped caring about holidays and birthdays in general. It’s still my favorite of the bunch, though. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/26 "2007-12-13T22:10:07Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Hmm. I always just assumed you had a curly black moustache and were madly in love with a wild gambling man. 🆒 [/QUOTE] That too! ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/27 "2007-12-13T22:31:44Z")
I always loved Christmas, and atheism didn’t put a damper on that for me. I love the music, the trees and lights, shiny wrapping paper, the food, family gatherings, all of it. It’s wintery party time, even in Houston where half our Christmases are celebrated in 75-degree weather. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/28 "2007-12-13T22:51:40Z")
[QUOTE=cbawlmer] I always loved Christmas, and atheism didn’t put a damper on that for me. I love the music, the trees and lights, shiny wrapping paper, the food, family gatherings, all of it. It’s wintery party time, even in Houston where half our Christmases are celebrated in 75-degree weather. [/QUOTE] I’ve only been in Houston for two years, and these balmy gray Christmases are turning me into Scrooge in a way that my Christian deconversion was never able to. ☹ :mad: ---
**Author:** ![pprgrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@pprgrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pprgrl)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/29 "2007-12-13T22:52:19Z")
Hell, I didn’t start celebrating Christmas until I became an atheist. I don’t know if I _love_ it - my family doesn’t celebrate, so I’m left glomming on to my friends’ celebrations. Still, I’m kind of looking forward to a few years from now, when I’m out of school, a little more settled and I’ve got the time and money to go all out. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/30 "2007-12-13T23:08:25Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] I’ve only been in Houston for two years, and these balmy gray Christmases are turning me into Scrooge in a way that my Christian deconversion was never able to. ☹ :mad: [/QUOTE] Aww, you missed the Big Snow of 2004! I had a snow fight with my siblings in my parents’ backyard on Christmas Eve, and then on Christmas morning we had to brush a bunch of snow off the car and scrape ice off the windows before we could drive to my in-laws’ house. We do have cold Christmases now and then, and we get an icy one every decade or so. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/31 "2007-12-13T23:51:27Z")
I don’t particularly like the whole christmas songs, candles, trees etc, and I hate winters, but I like the christmas dinners with my family and I’m quite fond of some of the religious classical music that’s part of the season. I especially like Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium and roast meat with orange chutney. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/32 "2007-12-14T00:09:53Z")
I love santa, cookies, trees, presents, being with loved ones, time off work, food, songs, and even that fictional story about God. It’s got some good plot twists (judas!) , and an admirable protagonist. They hinted at a cool sequel near the end of the story…there is even a sneak preview at the end of the book, but alas it has never come to fruition. I wonder why… ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/33 "2007-12-14T01:22:55Z")
It’s my favorite time of the year!! ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/34 "2007-12-14T01:28:21Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] I know I do. 🙂 I love the songs - I don’t even get tired of them when they’re beaten into me for two months straight. I love the imagery, the memories, the nostalgia. And, perhaps because I’m not Christian, I don’t even bristle at the commercialization of Christmas; losing the “true meaning” of the season is not a concern for me. Anyone else? [/QUOTE] Me too. My wife and I are atheists and there are more christmas lights in, on and around our house than you can shake a stick at. The tree has been up since the day after thanksgiving and the stockings too. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/35 "2007-12-14T01:34:59Z")
[QUOTE=An Arky] Christmas is just a co-opted pagan holiday (several, actually), anyway. [/QUOTE] That’s what I say. It’s really a winter solstice celebration under the REAL “old time religion.” I love it. The days are finally going to start getting longer. Whoo Hoo! Party time! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/36 "2007-12-14T01:42:20Z")
I love Christmas! Giving presents, listening to the music(right now it’s The Roches’ _We Three Kings_), handing off the fruitcake to whatever branch of the family is unlucky enough to be next on the list, the bright lights and everything else that comes with the season. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/37 "2007-12-14T01:56:34Z")
Hell, here’s a confession for you: I’m a Jew (though with a lot of Christian family members) who likes Christmas. I like the songs (religious more than secular, though I’m not likely to go out carolling or anything), the tree, the presents, the holiday feeling, and the fact that it reminds me of my grandmother before she got dementia (she passed away two years ago). ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/38 "2007-12-14T01:57:28Z")
It’s a wonderful life still brings a tear to my eye. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/39 "2007-12-14T02:50:43Z")
Actually I get to enjoy it more and more the older I get. Though, as an active member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster since last week, I’m not really sure if I’m still an athiest. And it pisses me off that you don’t see Merry Christmas (or Merry ChriFSMas as we Pastafarians preferr) every where. Doesn’t seem to it matters much whether there’s a god or not, it’s still Christman/ChriFSMas. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881/40 "2007-12-14T03:34:59Z")
I do, I do! Man, I _love_ Christmas… everything about it. I can’t wait to see my family and trade presents and stuff myself silly and not work for ten days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-atheists-out-there-who-love-x-mas/429881.md?page=3)