I basically go along to get along. Love getting treats for Diwali.

@WilliamCharles you have somewhere to go along TO. my family isn't christian, never was. we didn't celebrate christmas. it's not something everyone in the universe celebrates. i have no occasion to "go along" to anything related to christmas.

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@genessa - I take no part in anyone's forced or obligatory religious observations, but do not mind the sense of community any gathering can have, and my godlessness comes up at times, but usually not in an accusatory way. I like showing the colors as a non-religionist. Shows we don't eat babies in front of them (I go outside... like a smoker).

@WilliamCharles i am not knocking it. it just isn't part of my life. the last time i was invited to a christmas gathering i was shunned when the evangelicals who were running it found out jews were not just a weird kind of christian who nonetheless worship their jesus, and that i personally did not believe that the beach boys sat down with a physical devil and sign a physical contract with him. i didn't go the following year and i won't be going again. no one else i know gives christmas parties. i don't actually wish someone would; i don't THINK about it. it's meaningless to me. i get together with friends when possible and i don't need an excuse to do so (although birthdays are good, of course). i don't need to prove to some nonspecific public that i don't eat babies (anywhere) and no one i actually know thinks that of me (or of anyone). so... i don't need christmas.

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@genessa - I understand. My friend wrote a book with first person accounts of how Christians treat those not part of the hive. I was even quoted in it.

~ LanceThruster

[from Debbie Mitchell's book "Growing Up Godless" - Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.]

@WilliamCharles nice quotation. i am guessing it's an interesting book, too.

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@genessa - Thank you. She did a good job of editing as it was originally a little more rambling as a comment on her blog. She was in the thick of the Bible Belt (Texas). Some of the personal stories she gathered are beyond belief. Just stupid petty shit from people pretending the have the moral high ground. I had a husband of a cousin kick me out of their house not wanting me "contaminating" his kids (I was talking with the little boy about his interest in dinosaurs - no proselytizing at all). Was pretty bizarre.

@WilliamCharles superchristians are just plain weird.

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