It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me.
The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.
I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.
That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.