Okay, how's about this?

If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, it's fucking cold and awful. If you're in the Southern Hemisphere, it's blistering hot. I know that where I live, it's freezing and cold and most plants are dead and brown and the sky is always overcast and most of the day is dark and it's generally a nasty, depressing, horrible time of year. So why not get together with people you like being around to strengthen and re-establish your relationships, and maybe eat and drink and have a good time?

I'm a secular humanist, and the last two days have been, between my uncle's party yesterday and my family dinner tonight, easily the nicest we've had in a couple of months. And only part of that is the two helpings of trifle with raspberry liqueur talking.

God... atheists celebrating christmas. This is unprecedented. Except I do it every year. It's not like people talk about Jesus and god and stuff on christmas. No, they eat cookies and get drunk. My atheist doctrine (which is basically my very personal code of morals in case you were wondering) allows cookies and alcohol, but it also allows me to decline the offer of alcohol at any point. When they ask me if I do it for religious reasons I say yes, we atheists have a book that says I can't drink alcohol. They don't have to know that I've written this book. Well. Not yet. But I will if they ask to see it.

Accepting kindness from Seil is like accepting legal advice from Lionel Hutz.

Yeah don't ask me to justify that analogy.

I just... feel the truth of it.

In my heart.

Except for Linus van Pelt.

I didn't think I'd have to tell you guys to please note the tag I used, and should've used with my first post already.

e: Like, Jesus and me and Christmas, we're all cool with each other.

Merry Christmas a day late and a dollar short.

For what it's worth, I'd have been waxing all peace-on-earth, this-holiday-is-for-everyone anyway; your post merely provided a jumping-off point.