[Livia]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

To be fair - non believers didn't really start this s**t. Christmas is also primarily a pagan festival co-opted by the church. Atheism is still very young, and in the process of asserting itself. The last witch was burned in the UK in the 1790's, so I think religious people perhaps need to take things like that into consideration when attacking people happy to see the church fall on hard times.

That's why Judaism is so chilled out, and Islam is like an angry little brother trying to fight it's way up the pecking order.

It hasn't been a pagan festival for hundreds of years... You're surely not suggesting that non-believers are celebrating the ancient ritual? Don't see many people out making bonfires on 21st December... or adhering to any other pagan rites. They're worshiping mostly at the alter of consumerism, picking and choosing the bits of the Christian festival that they like most. The presents, the carols... the schmaltz. It seems a little disingenuous for those same people to be celebrating the reported and of Christianity.

You seem to be suggesting that Christians deserve to be ridiculed and chastised because they once burned witches. That's not your serious suggestion, surely. And on that point, I'm not sure witches were burned in the UK, I think they were mostly hanged... but that's a whole other discussion.

All I'm saying is, if you're an atheist, good luck to you, that's your affair.. But don't make it your mission to prove people of faith wrong. No one can prove what faith is... that's why it's called faith. Perhaps just allow people to express their faith freely without all the iconoclasts turning out to knock them down.