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Originally posted by Jim Cesiro
Yet Christmas is the biggest holiday in the USA. Gofigure, everyone is an athiest, then they throw their principle and their conviction out the window to celebrate the birth of Christ.
You can call it whatever you want, its still Christs birthday and if you do not believe in God you should not be out buying gifts and celebrating the holiday, especially of you feel so strongly about the fact that God does not exhist. If you are celebrating your a hypocrit.
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Did you know that because of its known pagan origin, Christmas was banned by the Puritans and its observance was illegal in Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681?
IIRC it was the Roman pagan festival of Saturnalia originally, coopted by Christians sometime around the 3rd century.
Celebrate away.