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brooklynite

(94,540 posts)
Wed Dec 24, 2014, 10:17 PM Dec 2014

What Christmas Eve service are my fellow atheists going to?

It wouldn't be Christmas Eve without carol singing, so we usually shop for whichever Church has the best chorus. This year we're in Seattle, so we're going to try the UCC Church downtown.

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What Christmas Eve service are my fellow atheists going to? (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2014 OP
It's called 'BUILD ALL THE LEGOS EVER MADE'. AtheistCrusader Dec 2014 #1
+ha ha , after days of leav ing my dog alone, we are sleeping off Decem ber hollysmom Dec 2014 #2
None. delrem Dec 2014 #3
No services for me other than the one I do with friends and family. longship Dec 2014 #4
Just got done watching The Interview Goblinmonger Dec 2014 #5
i had dinner at a friend's house. his wife has to DesertFlower Dec 2014 #6
The local service here was at midnight - too late for this homebody. cbayer Dec 2014 #7
Indeed...good chorus and bell-ringers brooklynite Dec 2014 #8
I found some pretty good music on local radio earlier. cbayer Dec 2014 #9
uh, none? Warren Stupidity Dec 2014 #10
I could care less about the religious aspect...just like the music brooklynite Dec 2014 #12
Went to bed early after work Bradical79 Dec 2014 #11
None, of course. mr blur Dec 2014 #13

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
2. +ha ha , after days of leav ing my dog alone, we are sleeping off Decem ber
Wed Dec 24, 2014, 10:39 PM
Dec 2014

and maybe cleaning the kitchen of my gift wrapping supplies - tomorrow the dining room so I can use the table.

delrem

(9,688 posts)
3. None.
Wed Dec 24, 2014, 10:45 PM
Dec 2014

I've a bit more $ to distribute this year - it's a better time that way - so I've been donating a bit to some progressive alternate news/opinion/activist sites since it's end of year. Tho' I consider those to be donations to myself since it works toward what I consider a better world - and the people running and contributing articles and activism to the sites are doing the real work.

Hopefully in the coming years I'll be a bit more charitable and understanding toward the people in poverty that I pass by every day on the street. Be less of a dick. Hopefully.

Otherwise it's a time for gathering around family and friends.

Have a warm and peaceful holiday, y'all

longship

(40,416 posts)
4. No services for me other than the one I do with friends and family.
Wed Dec 24, 2014, 11:31 PM
Dec 2014

Tonight, it was my Christmas Eve standard, Harold Ramis's Groundhog Day, one of the most spiritual flicks since forever. I posted an OP here about it.

Others are chiming in with some of there own faves. Always a good dialog here about such things. (As long as folks don't make personal attacks.)

Here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218172982
Please contribute your own favorites.

And hauskaa joulua to you all. (Finnish: happy Christmas)

 

Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts)
5. Just got done watching The Interview
Wed Dec 24, 2014, 11:38 PM
Dec 2014

Totally worth the $6.

Better than any service I could have gone to.

DesertFlower

(11,649 posts)
6. i had dinner at a friend's house. his wife has to
Thu Dec 25, 2014, 12:04 AM
Dec 2014

work tomorrow (she's a nurse). he's a non practicing jew and his wife is christian. in fact she and her family went to church and didn't get back till about 4:30. dinner was scheduled for 5pm.

i didn't go because it's xmas -- it's just that i enjoy being with my friends and their families.

even though my friend's wife is christian and republican we never discuss religion or politics.

tomorrow i'm planning to stay home and do nothing.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
7. The local service here was at midnight - too late for this homebody.
Thu Dec 25, 2014, 11:15 AM
Dec 2014

It was preceded by fireworks and cannons, so that was fun.

Hope you found the music you were looking for.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
10. uh, none?
Thu Dec 25, 2014, 04:15 PM
Dec 2014

We have dinner at home and play games. It is a time for family not a religious occasion. Being an atheist generally means not being religious, although there are obviously some atheists who just miss all that bother, see for example Alain de Botton.

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