“How Sad must Atheists be on Christmas.”
You’re projecting and rather smugly. I don’t believe you’re entirely honest about your sympathy, here.
Also, you’re wrong. Saturnalia, Winter Solstice, Christmas, all great fun.
“Watching all the Christians running around happy, giving gifts to their family members,”
You know, suicidal people tend NOT to kill themselves at Christmas? Sure, some do, and they get a LOT of press. But I worked the Suicide Hotline, and the number of calls go down at Christmas. Not because people become happy, but because the suicidal people fit right in. Everything’s grey. Everyone’s stressed. There’s gifts to buy, gifts to mail, cookies to make, parties to get to, exchanges to address. Everything’s cold. Everyone’s stomping through slush. Including the christains swearing at their cars to start god damn it, you had a new battery just six years ago!
We’re no happier or sadder than you fuckers are this time of year.
“singing religious carols...”
When’s the last time you actually sang? And did you listen to the words?
A lot of carols are just songs about snow and sleighbells. No Christmas or religion. It’s just the only time the radio or the stores play them is a christmas time. I especially like hearing ‘Hallelujah’ at Christmas. It’s just a song about a Jewish Kid getting laid.
“oh, and running around happy (didn't I mention the happy part [[giveup]] )”
Stressed, trying to remember how many Christmas cards your kid needs for school, how many cookies the other one needs, how to get letters to Santa Claus… Yeah, you’re SO much more happy than I am.
“Atheism is an ideology of cynicism and depressed skepticism...”
No. I just don’t find your goduments all that convincing.
“does it get to you guys at all, watching people being optimistic and loving life [[smile]]”
Why would it? I’m optimistic and i love life. You don’t have the franchise on that.
“Oh, and for Atheists that do bring themselves to celebrate Christmas, how empty do you guys feel, just giving gifts without any meaning...”
How hypocritical do YOU feel, giving gifts on a made-up Christain holiday stolen from the pagans?
How stupid do you feel that your Nativity has the 3 Magi who were not there, and didn’t find Jesus until the boy was 2 years old?
"completely disassociated with the spirit of the season.”
The spirit of the season is Saturnalia. Shepherds sleep with their flocks in spring, when the lambs come. Your own account of Jesus’ birth says it wasn’t in December.
“I pity Atheists really [[no]]”
Oh, so shocking to be trolled by a lying Christophile.