Greta Christina has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including atheism, sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. She is author of
The Way of the Heathen: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life, of
Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God, of
Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why, of
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, and of
Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More, and is editor of
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Everything You Know About God Is Wrong and three volumes of
Best American Erotica. (Any views she expresses in this blog are solely hers, and do not necessarily represent this organizations.) She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid. You can email her at gretachristina (at) gmail (dot) com, or follow her on
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Yes, and even people in the tropics and the Southern Hemisphere sometimes enjoy Christmas! Strange, that.
lilacsigil beat me to pointing out that for the southern half of the world, Christmas happens when it’s hot and bright, not cold and dark…
And we still like getting together with family and friends, even so.
Some atheists do certainly enjoy the holidays. Others, including me, want nothing to do with them.
I have fond memories of celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas as an atheist child in an atheist family (my father is an atheist Jew and my mother is a deconvert from Catholicism). So much celebrating!
Here’s one for you – this Christmas, my atheist mother gave two of her atheist children (my sister and me) Jewish paraphernalia (mostly books about Jewish history and culture) for Christmas.
Greta – have you heard this song by Tim Minchin?
White Wine In The Sun
You can read the song lyrics here:
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/t/tim_minchin/white_wine_in_the_sun.html
I think it captures the atheist holiday spirit.