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Related: About this forumWhat 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.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Taking a break. Just built the snow rescue sky crane.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)and maybe cleaning the kitchen of my gift wrapping supplies - tomorrow the dining room so I can use the table.
delrem
(9,688 posts)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)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)Totally worth the $6.
Better than any service I could have gone to.
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)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)It was preceded by fireworks and cannons, so that was fun.
Hope you found the music you were looking for.
brooklynite
(94,540 posts)sermon was ignorable.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)A happy day to you and yours.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)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.
brooklynite
(94,540 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Had to help my Christian bosses make some money.
mr blur
(7,753 posts)Xmas is incredibly tedious, really.