Terahertz

I clipped today’s Bizarro comic out today (it’s not online and I don’t have a scanner with here, so bear with my explanation): the caption reads “Atheist Christmas” and a woman is passing a man and she says “Merry nothing!” to which he replied “Same to you!”

I think Bizarro is generally funny, and I can take a joke and laughed a little when I saw this, but at the same time it’s just plain not true.

As an atheist the only part of Christmas I don’t really partake in is the Christian mass and the Jesus story – the family, food, presents, Santa, etc. is all still well and good.  I love watching Rudolf and Frosty the Snowman and the Grinch – all stories which do not once mention God.

Then there’s the “Jesus is the reason for the season” saying, which is blatantly ignorant of ancient history.  The real phrase tossed around ought to be “Winter Solstice is the reason for the season,” if you wanted to be more accurate.

And don’t even get me started on how I watched Don Cherry say remember that on December 25th, Santa is good, but December 25th is for baby Jesus. After which he flashed to pictures of the troops in Afghanistan.  And you could tell that he was being serious.

So have a merry secular Christmas.