Tag: Christmas

Rick Perry on Thursday signed a law protecting Christmas and other holiday celebrations in Texas public schools from legal challenges.

Atheists are celebrating Santa Monica’s decision to prohibit churches, atheists, synagogues and other groups from setting up nativity scenes or other displays on Palisades Park.

When people find out I’m an atheist, the question often comes up about what I do during the Christmas holidays. There is an assumption that atheists don’t ‘do Christmas,’ so they are surprised when I say how much I love it.

The fragile truce between science and art came under strain today when common depictions of snowflakes threatened to divide the two cultures over the festive season. In the latest salvo between the warring factions, Christmas card manufacturers, advertising agencies and children’s book publishers are accused of corrupting nature with “incorrect designer versions” of snowflakes that defy the laws of physics.

Welcome to Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People, a variety show featuring a stellar cast of comedians, musicians and scientists, who - with cerebral sparkle and some realist tinsel - descended on London’s 3000-seater rock venue, the Hammersmith Apollo, last night.

Some 4,500 years ago, as the solstice sun rose on Stonehenge, it is very likely that a midwinter feast would already have been roasting on the cooking fires. Experts believe that huge midwinter feasts were held in that period at the site and a startling picture is now emerging of just how far cattle were moved for the banquet. Recent analysis of the cattle and pig bones from the era found in the area suggests the cattle used were walked hundreds of miles to be slaughtered for the solstice celebrations – from the west country or west Wales.

Starting this week, atheists and others who say they embrace reason over religion take out ads showing smiling people wearing red Santa hats with the slogan: ‘No God? . . . No problem!’

The American Family Assn. attacked Gap for not using the word ‘Christmas’ in its advertising—but in fact it does, and in a big way too.

Atheists are shaking off their joyless image and trying to put forward a positive face. But most of all they just want to have fun