Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays, Merry Solstice.

Yes, I know the solstice was on the 21st this year, but we’re told that December 25 was established as the solstice under the Julian Calendar in 46 BCE.
The mismatch between the actual seasons and the Julian Calendar meant some “drift” accumulated over time and some correction was applied under the Gregorian Calendar of 1582 CE [1581 Easter Year style], but they didn’t restore it to the Julian Calendar and this has left us with around a 3 day mismatch between the solstice and December 25.

Savior?
Who did he „save“?
A god who chosed to „save“ a few hundred thousand of Jews (but failed!), and missed to „save“ some 500,000,000 of other people living on earth at the same time?
An „all loving god“ paying attention to some 0,1 % of total population of earth, and neglecting 99.9%?
Did he deliberately let the rest of people to stay „unsaved“ and to go to hell?

Was he a racist? A sadist?

Jews were NOT „saved“, obviously, but I do not complain to his badly done job, extremely clumsy for god.
What I do complain, is his LACK OF WILL TO GIVE A CHANCE TO BE „SAVED“ to many millions of other people on earth.
The poor creatures HAD NO CHANCE to be „saved“, because your “all loving god“ forgot them or neglected them, and just let them to go to hell.

He CERTAINLY was not „all loving“.
Or, did he ever exist?

I celebrate Christmes as a traditional holyday like I celebrate the New Year: holydays of tollerance.

Even if I believed in some god, I would never celebrate a god/man who let 500,000,000 people to go to hell without giving them any chance to be „saved“.

If you give Christmas a human dimension, yes it is a nice holyday!

Merry Christmas to you!

Thank you for your concern.
I was never lonly. It is probably because I am very tollerant (unlike most theists), and I generally like people, never asking for their religion.

After I moved, some 12 years ago, from a catholic country to an orthodox country, I established Christmas Eve dinners at my place for my friends, who hardly knew what catholic people eat for CE in this part of the world (their first neighbours).
It is (at this part of the world): soup of mashed beans, spiced with some herbs, cooked kale with garlic and olive oil and some lemon juice, and codfish with potato, a lot of garlic, parsley and olive oil.

All of us: several orthodox christians, a few atheists and a wonderful, old, Jewish lady, enjoy my meal and enjoy in each other. At 12.00 we say to each other “Marry Christmas”, and usually continue till 1 or 2 to a.m.

You see: atheists are atheists, not barbarians.
They are tollerant, and much more loving than most theists. I am frequently invited to join religious hollidays of my orthodox friends and I always came with joy.

I have them today again, and I am happy (although I see them frequently, anyway).
And, yes, I discuss things like these with them, too, but they never try to impose their beliefs to me. We just TALK. Friendly debates.

Tollerance is the key of living together.

Marry Christmas to you and everyone.

It was a Pagan winter festival that the Christian leaders decided to make it Jesus’s birthday, even though he would have been born in the spring time around what is celebrated as Easter. So in reality, you should be celebrating his birthday during that time. Holidays like this are more meant to put time aside to get together with family.

No, we don’t…..only a body with chemical reactions.