Did Seinfeld start it?

You remember .. a Festivus for the rest of us ...
"The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances ..."

Nah. I think it started a long time before Seinfeld. 
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For as long as Christmas has been the thing that it has become, there have been people who love Christmas, but really don't buy in to the religious aspects of it. People who love the getting together, the decorations, the food, the love, the family and friends. Like Tim Minchin ..."I'll be seeing my Dad ... My brothers, my sisters, my Gran and my Mum ..."
And isn't that what Christmas is about for the rest of us ...?

Incidentally ... Tim Minchin gave an inspiration graduation speech which can resonate with anyone at any age, here.

So ... all that said, what do you give
an atheist
​for Christmas?
What kind of Christmas card do you send?


But first ...what about that "War on Christmas"???

Let's first debunk the fictitious "War on Christmas" which has been fabricated by people who sense their power and their sources of comfort are waning. There has never been a "War on Christmas". Not at all.  Christmas just got more inclusive. I'd also like to point out that "Happy Holidays" and "Season's Greetings" have been with us for a long time. It's the card that a remotely sensitive business executive would have sent out to his clients, just in case some of them were Jewish, decades ago. I wonder why that same sensitivity is suddenly seen as something new and somehow subversive now. 

None of the cards in the slideshow below ... not even the fruitcake recipe card ... mention Chrismas. 
Yes, our irreligious and immoral parents, grandparents and great-grandparents sometimes thought it better to steer clear of sending "Christmas" greetings to someone who might not celebrate Christmas.
They found a way around it and no one found fault with their sensitive and warm greetings.

Where was I? Oh yeah, atheist Christmas cards.

Featzshuring Nietzsche

Big fan of Nietzsche I am. I remember when I first encountered him. I was a young philosophy student. Problems? Sure, there's lots of problems with Nietzsche's thoughts. Caused, no doubt, by trauma he suffered as a child trying to learn how to spell his own name. But he overcame them. The ubermensch ubered! He made me want to go out and knock them dead. And ... when he knocked God dead, I'm sure he wasn't intending to ruin everyone's Christmas. These Christmas items have been designed to convey just that. 

I've sold quite a few of these. You know you want them. Life is short. 
God is dead. Merry Christmas anyway!