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In reply to the discussion: Real, confident atheists don't think it's offensive to say "Merry Christmas." We think it's adorable [View all]The Mouth
(3,150 posts)I hope that whatever somebody believes makes them happy, makes them a better person and offers them joy and hope.
I'll play in their praise band, refrain from eating a pork chop in their face and buy their flower just because the poor SOB has been standing in an airport all day...
The *NANOSECOND* they try to require or prohibit what I can say, who I can love, what art I can create based on those beliefs I am justified in terminating their corporeal existence, until that point, peace and love. ISIS, LDS, anything else, it doesn't matter; don't make laws effecting me and it's peace and love, make your revelations the basis for law I have to obey and I am doing the world a favor ridding it of them, no in-between.
I like Christmas, the lights, the gift giving, the fact that it often serves the function of making people feel shitty when they have been assholes to family or friends