Yeah, I used to read osn but the comments just became too immature to bother with. I used to deal with similar things on our Christian Apologetics forum (www.christian-apologetics.org) where we got the same kind of person: immature, overly skeptical, lacking the ability to think objectively and not really wiling to enter into the deeper discussion. So you just move on to greener pastures. Bye4-now Timby. Rob

The first one: I take no issue with you relaxing over Christmas, but this IS a Christian festival (if anything) by definition. You go on to say that you think Christmas highlights what is wrong with the western world (e.g. gluttony), and that Christmas is an emotional thing. Well, both of these things are decided upon a worldview (a belief system). Assuming you are a non-Believer in Jesus Christ (or other religion), what gives you the right to redefine Christmas as the things above? (Should I redefine your festivals to whatever I want?) These are surely just your personal preferences, in which case, to be blunt, who cares what you think? :-)

Secondly, your post here and on OSNews states that you are non-religious. But then you go on to assert your views: “please, emphasize not our differences, but celebrate our similarities.” As a Christian, you are asking me to refrain for exercising my beliefs about Christmas, and instead take on your worldview — the co-called ’secular’, ‘tolerant’ society. I think both secular agnosticism, atheism, and Islam, are false belief systems (similar 4 u I guess) but I think you are asking me to NOT celebrate these because they are differences between us, not similarities.

I am not trying to be nit-picky — it’s just that the thinking behind your views is not neutral, but instead pushes a secular worldview (which I happen to not like — and I guess the same goes for many Muslims in Europe too). I would like u 2 adopt my worldview re Christmas (which IS similar to yours btw) and you want me to adopt yours.

Cheers from warm New Zealand :-)