4 Reasons Why There Is No War on Christmas

[@DarthVaizard]

I don't see Christmas as the celebration of the birth of Christ. I see it as the time of the year to show your appreciation towards the ones you love by means of gift giving.

[@EpickaNESSiskool]

I though it was the time of the year where commercialism bloomed.

[@ארדקרן]

EpickaNESS Like every American holiday...

[@masterofsoresu9476]

Same

[@jeremyfeldmann7969]

It good to see some one here with commen sense

[@MezzoForteAural]

As a former atheist and current Catholic I greatly enjoy your videos. They are well thought out and respectful. Thanks for your hard work. Happy holidays.

[@MelkorHimself]

People get offended at "happy holidays" but never got offended when the convention was to say "seasons greetings".

[@spawnofmutran5198]

It's even funnier when you realize that "holiday" is derived from "holy day", and is therefore a religious term itself.

[@scotthunt1613]

Atheist christmas is the best! When people pray around X-Mas dinner, we snatch some extra turkey! lol

[@sovietbot6708]

When I was religious, I actually prayed with my eyes open.

[@AnsonJew]

Nobody ever declared a war on Christmas. Bill O'Reilly and friends, however, declared a war on "Happy Holidays!"

[@RobTheBunny76]

Happy early holidays.

[@GPS0159]

A Jewish Christmas story... The teacher was very curious about how each of her students' celebrated Christmas Eve "Tell me Patrick, what do you do on Christmas Eve?" she asked. Patrick addressed the class. "Well Miss, me and my twelve brothers and sisters go to midnight Mass and we sing hymns, then we come home very late and we put mince pies by the back door and hang up our stockings. Then all excited we go to bed and wait for Father Christmas to come with all our toys." "Very nice Patrick, now Jimmy Brown, what do you do?" "Well Miss, me and my sister go to Church with Mum and Dad and we sing carols and we get home ever so late. We put cookies and milk by the chimney and we hang up our stockings. We hardly sleep waiting for Santa Claus to bring our presents." Remembering there was a Jewish boy in the class and not wanting to leave him out of the discussion, she asked, "Now Jimmy Cohen, what do you do on Christmas Eve?" "Well Miss, it's the same old thing every year. Dad comes home from the office. We all pile into the Rolls and drive to his toy factory. When we get inside we look at all the empty shelves and sing "What a friend we have in Jesus". Then we go to the Bahamas."

[@getzen700]

The war on christmas is so extreme I have to walk past christmas decorations when looking for halloween decorations.

[@TheNeurall]

Christians need to learn the history and origin of christmas.

[@sgcv]

You're talking about christians in America, give them time.

[@benitezg]

sgcv you're* America* Sorry :(

[@sgcv]

Arturo Benitez どうもありがとうございました :)

[@TorianTammas]

This is a nice wish for them, but it would mean they had to realize that not everything revolves around them. This might take a century or two.

[@kmeanxneth]

Christmas is a pagan celebration

[@00Skyfox]

I don't know what people are complaining about. Christmas is like a two month long Superbowl. The pre-game hype begins in August with some lights and decorations starting to show up in stores and talk about the upcoming christmas/holiday season. Then at the stroke of November 1st, it's game on! Thanskgiving is little more than a halftime show when people load up on food and spend the rest of the time in the bathroom. Christmas Day itself starts like a tie game after the 2-minute warning, presents time being the final winning play, and the rest of the day being the players celebrating on the field and dumping big coolers of eggnog on the coach. The credit card bills afterwards are like the post-game review, and Valentine's and St. Patricks' Day stuff showing up before New Years Day is like people talking about the baseball season about to get underway as soon as the big game is over.

[@TheMonkeyFarted]

I celebrate christmas but not in the religious way. I do it to spend time with family and get and give presents and to have a good time. Even though most of the family not the immediate family is religious I can deal with it.

[@JadenTapscott]

I'm an atheist who celebrates *both* Christmas & Easter. I also wonder who else applies.

[@SilviaFingerotter]

Jaden Tapscott I do too.

[@michaelkarasch8460]

yeah. Me too but that is more a family tradition thing than anything else.

[@hiperson2368]

Hi I'm here.

[@wiggy009]

Me

[@ellie7646]

Almost everyone else. It's just about presents and chocolate for 90 percent of the people.

[@MarioRugeles]

"A war is when two armies are fighting", Bill Hicks

[@RagingBlast2Fan]

He's wrong. That would trivialize the term. What if there are two sides and they have multiple armies that are spread out and fighting with each other? A war is when two or more factions/clans or countries/nations are in conflict with each other. That doesn't explicitly imply fighting, but that's the point. You may wage war, get across a message, and then sign a treaty without having killed anyone in the battlefield.

[@MarioRugeles]

***** The reason I quote Hicks is to point out the fact that the word "War" is being overstated by conservative christians with their "War on Christmas".

[@RagingBlast2Fan]

Mario Rugeles Well then, I suppose we're in agreement about that!

[@RNS_Aurelius]

I'm an atheist and I celebrate Christmas same applies for most people in England.

[@n00bman100]

Im from Finland and have been an Atheist my whole life. I think its 100% ok to belive in whatever you want to belive in. :) Here in Finland it seems like there are very few people who belive in a god, but still we have things like christmas, easter and such because it have become a tradition. So if anyone wanna ask me a question about me being an Atheist then go ahead! I would love to answer them! :D

[@PalkkiTT]

Torrilla tavataan perkele

[@poisoncobra7]

fact: Christmas in Denmark is called "Jul" and was a tradition in the viking age where people would drink mead and beer, because they were looking forward to the darkness of the winter to vanish, but then Christianity came and ruined it, i would like to know how different Christmas would be if Christianity hadn't come to Scandinavia

[@powerpotion5470]

+Caden Robbespierre Well thats a nice way to put it. The Christians actually stole the holiday from the pagans, forced them to convert at the point of a sword and claimed the holiday was original and created by them.

[@proud2bpagan]

Thanks for this post,Hemant. I'm Wiccan,myself,and I still say 'Merry Christmas' or 'Happy Channakah'..You're right,we are a nation of immigrants,and not everyone *does* celebrate Christmas. I happen to do my religious observance on the 21st(Winter Solstice) and Dec. 25th is just family time for me. Time that has become more precious since we lost my dad.I'll wish a Muslim friend 'Ramadan Mubarrack'(Happy Ramadan)...it's about realizing that not everyone thinks or believes the same way,and that's what's beautiful about this country...we all think and believe differently,and don't get dragged off in the middle of the night to God knows where in the middle of the night,never to be seen again.

[@americanliberal09]

"we are a nation of immigrants" What does this have anything to do with christmas holiday? Who even says that certain type of people cannot celevrate christmas?

[@BkDelta]

I'm an atheist and i love christmas. What's not to love about spending time with your family and giving people you love gifts? I say "merry christmas" too, or whatever holiday greeting someone prefers, doesn't matter to me its just a phrase

[@neuralkernel]

There most certainly IS a War on Christmas... I know it for a fact because I'm waging it! Have a cold, dark and lonely Winter Solstice! :)

[@mollyconway6205]

Accept Santa into your life and you won't freeze in the cold depths of the South Pole!

[@WickedLadyRights]

Why?

[@WickedLadyRights]

ArchGamer Are you really the best person to answer for him?

[@neuralkernel]

WickedLadyRights ArchGamer Well... I was HALF joking...

[@WickedLadyRights]

Turns out you were only half qualified Archie...

[@DonWilsondigginTimeUSA]

I refuse to be politically correct all the damn time. I don't get offended when a religious person says Merry Christmas even though I am an Atheist. Hell, I'm just thankful that they aren't pointing a gun at me or someone else in the room!

[@PrestonSmith1989]

You just won the internet.

[@DonWilsondigginTimeUSA]

Thanks, I deserve it!...lol

[@jyoung78]

"It's not a war on Christmas, it's a war on your privilege." Nailed it.

[@damnage97]

One of your best videos as far as valid points made and voice... shared on Facebook

[@AlexTheUruguayan]

One of the reasons why no mathematicians ever complain about this imaginary war - "happy holidays" is a superset of "merry Xmas".

[@jaayplayer7820]

Have a happy holiday!!!

[@screeningmimi]

Thank you for defending "Happy Holidays" Mr. Mehta. I know people who say it as a sign of respect, but none who use it to 'stomp out Christmas!' Americans need to know that this country has always been a melting pot of nationalities, religions and cultures. While someone may be surrounded by Christians, everyone they meet or pass on an average day is not of the same faith. Muslims do not get a persecution complex when we refuse to acknowledge Ramadan, likewise Jewish people - and there are many, do not insist that we all educate ourselves in their religion and the proper greeting. Happy Holidays is all-inclusive, full of good will, and if someone's religion is demeaned somehow by saying it, their faith can't be very strong, can it?

[@americanliberal09]

"Americans need to know that this country has always been a melting pot of nationalities, religions and cultures." C'mon. This is the reason some people say "happy holidays" over "merry Christmas", because there are people in this country have different beliefs? "merry christmas" is just a holiday slogan.......so thus, everybody can say it. So who says that you need to be christian in order to say "merry christmas"? This is just pathetic beyond belief. Saying "merry christmas" as a greeting is not gonna make people being forced into christianity, because there's hardly anything religious about it. Changing the phrase "merry christmas" to "happy holidays" isn't gonna make christmas more inclusive. I'm fine with people wanna saying "happy holdiays"

[@mothershipexe2242]

I always used to think that you said happy holidays because christmas and new years are so close, so you got two in one.... i was not always a clever child lol

[@MrAranton]

I disagree. There is a war on Christmas. But it is the christians who wage it. Look at the man who is supposed to be celebrated: literally born in barn (humble circumstances, that is), he drew a strict line between religion and commerce (he cleared the temple of merchants) and preached povery. And to celebrate him, people go on shopping sprees and spend a lot of money to decorate their houses. Chrismas represents the contradictory stuff that makes christianity unbelievable to me.

[@AshleeSage1998]

I absolutely loved your line, it's not a war on Christmas it's a war on your privilege! Absolutely hit the nail on the head with that one

[@Drakonis.Imperial]

Christianity is like the mean, bitchy, insecure girl in high school. As long as she's the center of attention, all is well. But the moment anyone so much as looks at one of the other girls, or doesn't focus on her alone....all hell breaks loose.

[@Jaliyl773]

I only came cause of the videos picture, I was like damn Santa Clause strapped XD

[@EightThreeEight]

Christmas went past its religious roots years ago: In Japan, less than 10% of the population consider themselves Christian. While Christmas isn't a national holiday for them, the majority of them still celebrate it.

[@NicholasBarnett]

I agree with you so much. People are just scared of change. Keep up the good work and Happy Holidays:)

[@zacheryrancano2824]

I love Christmas. I still say Merry Christmas even after I became a atheist.

[@ellexmarie2]

Thank you so much for the mental image of Jesus riding Rudolph. That made my day!

[@Algahiem]

Jehovah's Witness: Have you ever herd about Jesus? Me: Why yes I have. He's that friendly Hispanic guy who works at my game store.

[@oatmeal7563]

I'm atheist and Christmas and Halloween are my favorite holidays (I celebrate my family rather than jesus's birthday :) )

[@francinodepaula7536]

In my hometown in Brazil, its the other way around, some christian preachers have have prohibited their followers from celebrating Christmas, because it comes from a pagan holiday. The vice-mayor is part of this church, so he is not letting the city put up any Christmas light or tree on public property, which is a step forward, but also 10 steps backwards.

[@aaronrosenberg6633]

I think many Christians are very fragile if their holiday is not validated by everybody. Case in point - your "happy holidays" speech. Also, pertaining to your last video, I believe someone spoke up (maybe me, I forget!) and so the manger scene was removed from in front of my city hall. This year, I believe it's the same creche that's now in front of the church across the street. This kind of thing also raises much ire among some Christians.

[@TorianTammas]

I agree they are indeed fragile and insecure. Sometimes it appears everything has to revolve around christianity and as they start to realize they are just one of many and they aren't ruling the world they get upset and feel insulted. It is time to grow up for them as only little children belief everything revolves around them.

[@Joey3264]

TorianTammas wow! that was worded perfectly

[@spiffaz]

Awesome video man, great points through and through.

[@hectroinfectro]

I'd be happy to declare war on Christmas.... National Secular Consumerism Day though, that's a holiday I enjoy, and it just happens to be celebrated on the same day.

[@annieholley1808]

I find it very bizzare that out of all the things you can get angry about(racism, sexism, homophobia, poverty, our bad education system, ect.), you chose to get angry when someone says happy holidays.

[@mmtherapy2517]

elements that are traditionally associated with Christmas are actaully adopted from pagan traditions.

[@Gerroditus]

2) *The anger comes from the Christian need to have everyone kowtow to their whims.* The War on Christmas crowd doesn't want ANY other religion or religious belief to exist. That includes the lack of a specific religion or the belief that there is no god or gods period. It isn't a war on Christmas, *it's a desire to be included in the holidays (which are secular as well as religious) along with everyone else.*

[@deborahdavey4856]

I agree with you, but there are some Christians - many Christians that HATE Santa. Christians that say that Santa is the devil and if you rearrange the letters of Santa it spells Satan. I don't believe this, but once attended a church service where they said that if Santa went around the earth as fast as he would have to - he would catch on fire and that'd be wonderful. I was like WTF. The rest of what you say I agree with!

[@lornamiessner1029]

I celebrate Christmas just not at all religious, we give gifts and spend time with family. Did you know that the holiday itself with the tree and the gifts, is really a Pegan holiday, it's just Christian's stole it and made it about Jesus, also Easter was a old holiday that celebrated the goddess Easter, but Christians stole that too

[@shaggyzor]

Reasonable as I have come to expect, keep doing what your doing, very nice to listen to yer thoughts on what goes down over there. =P

[@Shushit55]

You are amazing! Thank you for this!

[@TeggyGoneMad]

In skandinava christmas was, soltice. You celebrate the days getting lighter. you celebrate it with drinking and eating. This is in the time of the vikings, long before Any christians ever came to skandinava. The jesus part of christmas is alright. why not we have so many defrent religion and cultures in christmas. So ofcause there is a spot for them aswell. Christmas is for everyone injoy it, put your own culture and belives in it, just dont claim somthing thats not yours alone. Athiest out

[@meteryam]

Even if someone doesn't care about non-Christian holidays, there's still a good reason to say "Happy Holidays": If you don't know whether you'll see the person you're talking to before the new year, then "Happy Holidays" can cover both Christmas and New Years.

[@tommyadler-mandile]

just because you don't celebrate christmas doesn't mean you cant be merry on december 25th

[@tommyadler-mandile]

good point

[@claudiaquat]

But I like Para Sailing.

[@crystalkim3899]

As a Christian, I'm more concerned about the consumerism over Christmas than I am about people saying Happy Holidays. It's all just silly crap, who cares what people say as a greeting? However it seriously bothers me when people go crazy on Black Friday, hurting each other, for material garbage... what a waste... & You're completely right about the immigration issue! My husband is a Japanese immigrant and we've had a really hard time just trying to get him legal. The racism has been really bad from other white people that see me with a brown guy, it's disgusting.

[@Vulcapyro]

Come to Canada, during Black Friday you just hear "sorry" and "excuse me" the whole day and we're basically obsessed with multiculturalism.

[@calsta619]

You know those TV shows, door to door knockers etc, which try to make you Christians, this is like them besides fighting for the other side. I'm personally not very religious although I do celebrate all the Christian holidays with my family. This channel has opened me up to new ideas and I like that.

[@GuardianChipO]

I thought this was going to be a video of why there is no literal war fought during Christmas time. **watches anyway and is still informed anyway**

[@patriciamcgeorge2575]

2:30 can be just seen as "Christmas + New Year" I personally prefer to just stick with winter solstice = festival after festival

[@KEvronista]

sorry, but i'm not in. i've been gearing up all year long for this season's gwox (global war on christmas®); i've committed to memory "happy holidays" in thirty different languages, i've broken out my repro of rabo karabekian's "the temptation of st. anthony" and i've substituted kale for mistletoe. i mean it, man: i'm taking no prisoners. it ends _here._ KEvron

[@SAMUEL-er7fc]

+KEvronista HAPPY HOLIDAYS COMRADE

[@KEvronista]

+Sam Boyer this year's secret weapon: starbucks gift cards. KEvron, putting the fucking back into "merry fucking christmas!"

[@hegs5619]

if there is no war on Christmas, then its about time to get it started! happy solstice! the season on logic and reason!

[@piesho]

Reason 5. Everybody loves christmas because... IT'S BE BIGGEST PARTY OF THE YEAR!!!!! The turkey, the pecan pay, the reunion with my cousins, aunts and uncles, grandpas. bros and sis, the presents, the piñata, the menudo, and all the good stuff.

[@CoyoteMMH]

I was raised in a non-religious household and I have celebrated Christmas every year. Like the comment below mine, I didn't know it had anything to do with christians until I was like 8 or 9... I think it is hood fun and a great time to see family... btw, we never put an angel or anything like that on top of the tree...

[@rainick]

It's called the blitzkrieg on grinchitude.

[@MelissaHogwood]

i don't mind ppl saying "happy holidays" or w/e. i do get irritated tho when someone corrects me saying not to say "merry christmas". like...fuck off?

[@CosmicalJax]

Ironically, most of the things Christians love about Christmas (Christmas tree, mistletoe...) are from Pagan origins, meaning ancient religious cults that do not exist any more. So by endorsing the Xmas tradition, they also endorse another religion.

[@deborahminter6231]

Personally I use Happy Holidays in October until after Thanksgiving...then I use Merry Christmas🌲

[@frankm.2850]

Someone definitely needs to make Christmas fan art of Jesus riding Rudolph now.

[@abacuschannel1]

Apparently, Bing Crosby would be in trouble these days for saying "Happy Holidays".

[@TheRealMake-Make]

I was just thinking of a rewrite for the song where we could dub over "holidays" with "Christmas." That'll show that Bing.

[@markbishopiii1577]

B.R.A.V.O. Brilliant, nuff said.

[@powerpotion5470]

I can't believe anyone took that guy from Arizona seriously. In his video he said, "You know what? Lets start something". Therefore Starbucks never started the "war on christmas", Christians did. Im mean really? "Lets all start complaining that our holiday isn't on the Starbucks cups and that we're extremely offended that other holidays are included too". Talk about selfish. I don't understand why Christians are so offended over a red cup, just enjoy the winter season! And to make Christians mad, happy winter solstice! You know, the pagan holiday you stole and copied!

[@otherssingpuree1779]

Whats the harm in saying Merry Christmas to a non Christian? It does not matter.

[@flailingrattie]

(My favorite talk on this subject was with my mother - I was upset in high school because when I tried to host a Christmas party for the kids at her church the christians there said that Christmas was pure evil because it was a pagan-catholic holiday. Yes. Pagan. Catholic.)

[@TheYasmineFlower]

Someone should tell them that using your brains doen't hurt...

[@stephaniecuellar3192]

2017 Update: This years' Starbucks' cup, picturing nongender specific hands clasped. Conservicunt conclusion? Gay agenda. **eyeball roll**

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

I like Christmas, but I don't believe in it

[@RuleofFive]

I didn't know Sarah Palin can read and write???!!

[@mancak35]

well, she's from the northern south (Alaska) not the south south (Alabama)

[@nickstoli]

I wonder what Fox News has to say about the fact that all the great Christmas songs were written by Jews.

[@TorianTammas]

This is a good christian tradition. They use what Jews create. Christians have taken the holy Jewish book (old testament) and pretended Jesus was promised in it.

[@MartinSwitzer]

I'm an atheist (and I don't celebrate Christmas) and I don't believe there's a war on Christmas anywhere I've seen. However, I don't think there's a need to be 'all-inclusive' for the end-of-the-year holidays either, any more than there should be 'all-inclusiveness' during Ramadan or Hanukkah, or Independence Day, or Thanksgiving, or Easter, or My Birthday. People send Christmas Cards, they have a Christmas Tree (regardless of the origins, that's what we call it now), they give Christmas presents. I see no harm in wishing people Merry Christmas (though there's no harm in saying it in other ways either). Besides, claiming that all mythologies celebrate something similar in late December isn't correct. So, in my world, they can have Merry Christmas. :-) My favourite quotation of yours: "Atheism is a religion like OFF is a TV channel"

[@TheRealMake-Make]

I never heard that one. I'm stealing that for future trolling expeditions...I'll give credit. "OFF is a TV channel."

[@RadioactivFly]

I was raised in a non-religious household, and I love Christmas! I didn't even know it had anything to do with Christianity until I was 7 or 8. Honestly, I don't know why anyone would be offended by a Christmas tree in a public place. Sure, it's something that's linked to a holiday that many celebrate religiously, but it's not itself religious. I _would_ have a problem with a nativity scene in a public place, because a nativity scene is religious. But a Christmas tree is completely secular, besides the fact that it's linked with Christmas. Many non-religious people celebrate Christmas secularly anyway. Putting a Christmas tree in a public place isn't "promoting Christianity."

[@TheYasmineFlower]

Christmas trees are actually leftover from the preceding pagan festivity for the winter solstice, and it was incorporated into Christian traditions when upper Europes pagans/Germanics/etc. were converted by the Christians of that times.

[@RadioactivFly]

TheYasmineFlower So was the rest of Christmas. Before the Roman Empire was Christian, everyone celebrated Saturnalia. In order to convince people to convert, the Church created the Christmas holiday, which at the time was very similar to Saturnalia.

[@TorianTammas]

The tree as most other traditions around Christmas are from pagan origin. Until the fourth century the date of the birth of Jesus was not even celebrated. As soon they started celebrating it they choose all kind of days before they choose saturnalia. So it was a war on Saturnalia that started it all.

[@pizza4589]

Im going to invest in a white robe smoke machine and bright light so i can convince people who come to preach at my door that i am god

[@squidpizza6320]

And a fake beard, and maybe a voice modulator.

[@Braindeadevilash]

Hold up... Sarah Palin can read and write? News to me.

[@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods]

I've heard people claim Christmas isn't a religious holiday anymore, and that "everyone" celebrates it. I wonder how many of them would celebrate Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist holidays when they have no family or cultural connection to them. Just because Christmas has become so secular in the popular culture doesn't mean it suddenly stopped being a religious Christian holiday.

[@vincentx915]

Love the image of Santa with a Machine Gun.

[@GravityBee1]

This video is an excellent diversion! Now that the Christians believe this the true war on Christmas can begin!

[@troglodyte4207]

Let's celebrate every ones favorite holiday Darwin day We put up Galapagos trees decorated with fossil skulls and Dawkins comes to your house at night and gives you gifts We also set up scenes of Darwin discovering evolution

[@MissPandoraC]

yesterday my mum got really insulted because a woman said have a good one instead of merry Christmas. i say let everyone have their religious holidays make it all public holidays. more public holidays people.

[@bismarket1]

Is BillyBoy fighting this "War" with his pen too? Bill O'Reilly...Seal Team Cursive!

[@jasontorres2417]

Anyone who is insulted by sincere "incorrectly worded" well-wishes is a childish fool.

[@CriticalMassCongregation]

I like to say 'seasons greetings'. Not everyone celebrates 'holy'-days.

[@WickedLadyRights]

Loved it, I have been saying very similar comments this whole time. I would like you to look into something I caught on facebook.... the hunter family went on fox news about an anonymous letter they received regarding taking down their Christmas light display because not all the neighbors celebrate Christmas and of course that the lights were tacky, which they were. I can't help but think this women wrote the letter themselves for the 15 minutes of Fox fame.

[@BohistaNordica]

hahahahaha! Good idea!

[@JZAK367]

Do Atheists have a day like Christmas or Honica?

[@bonwell]

The thing that's most frustrating to me is atheists who react to Christmas by saying "there's no celebrating Christmas in my house." The holiday we call Christmas is such a wonderful smorgasbord of different traditions and a great way to end the year... by "boycotting Christmas" all these atheists do is allow the Christians to claim a monopoly on a holiday that was never theirs to begin with.

[@Vulcapyro]

i know exactly zero people who think this, does this actually happen in the way you're describing

[@Vulcapyro]

Exactly. It makes zero sense for any atheist to reject the entirety of what is in one branch a totally secular holiday just because another totally separate branch of the same holiday is religious.

[@TorianTammas]

Very nice! Thanks! The time isnt christian as nobody knew when he was born. The celebrating of a birthday is all heathen and it took till the 4th century for any christian to come up with the idea to celebrate it. The tree is heathen. The tradition to give presents is as old as humainity and even the heathen romans celebrated Saturnalia at the time we consider today christmas time and gave each other presents. Not to mention all the other religions who celebrated around this time as this was the reason in the first place for christian to put it at this time of the year as a competition.

[@McSnezzly]

Uh... I'm an atheist and I just spent all day wrapping the Christmas presents of all six members of my family, and our family friends who are staying over. As well as decorate the tree. I also say grace with my dad since he is very Christian. Atheists who don't respect those around them are just scum, just like with Christians/Muslims/etc who hurt others. To be, Christmas is about family and getting to see my family surprised and happy over the presents they got.

[@rammiine]

I think Christmas has become much more than a Christian holiday, or a religious holiday for that matter. I have always seen it as a traditional holiday that we celebrate and if some people want to stick to their religious backgrounds as well as the religious origins of the holiday then that's completely fine too.

[@DiMarzio-Tone]

Very good point, I don't see people feuding on Christmas, except for on KZbin, Lol 😂.

[@GuitarLove4624]

Well thought out argument.

[@ScottJoC]

As an atheist, I LOVE Christmas. Not fussy about the religious crap about it, its barely even a religious holiday, its a commercial thing.

[@RinoaL]

cool video glitch at 2:26

[@Thathappened703]

Whatcha don't see is "buy more popcorn" and "Drink Coca Cola".

[@Anfa18]

no glitch, clearly that's proof he's a demon lol

[@RinoaL]

Anfa18 if he was a demon I'd love this Channel even more.

[@DerErsteWilhelm]

6:56 this reminds me of the movie indiana jones the last crusade some how

[@skellymom]

Still don't see very much marketed towards Winter Solstice...

[@notquiteatory971]

The thumbnail is fantastic

If "Happy holidays" is offensive, is "Happy Hanukkah" offensive, too?

[@skellymom]

And, the Christmas merchandising started well before Halloween...

[@LisaHouserman]

I always thought that "Happy Holidays" simply meant Christmas and New Year's when I was younger I guess I thought that anyhow the whole thing is ridiculous it's just sort of Christian social justice Warriors LOL I stole that from Kyle at secular talk

[@ccrazool]

You... *bought* that book?? o.O

[@HemantMehta]

It was a gift. Sort of.

[@deeliriyum]

Sarah Palin can WRITE?!

[@ohioatheist8052]

Probably not. I think it's a pop-up book with a bunch of pictures of (Christian) Santa and Jesus.