• buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      1 year ago

      This is excellent, I’ve been ranting for years about what I’ve been calling latent Protestantism, the tendency among Amerikkkan atheists and nonchristian spiritual types to replicate the mores and belief structures of Christianity.

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              There are many aspects of Christmas which should be eliminated, both the veneration of an infant fated to die as the ultimate scapegoat vessel of sin and the rampant consumerism.

              Having a festival near the winter solstice centered on feasting and family is not necessarily problematic though.

              • Yeah, that’s more or less what we’ve been doing. To be clear, when I say “culturally Christian,” I’m not saying that I just believe in god without going to church or that I continue Christian traditions and beliefs uncritically. It just feels correct to acknowledge that’s the context I was raised in. Even the most militant atheists raised in deeply Christian areas have a Christian context. The act of negation and all that.