Sunday, November 6, 2011

Would you like to read my athiest Christmas wish for my friends at Yahoo Answers?

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter holiday season, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, ual orientation, or other preference or lifestyle choice of the wishee, not that certain orientations are choices, and might, in fact, be genetic in nature. I celebrate your DNA, and that of every person presently sustaining life, or no longer, including, of course, indigenous and aboriginal groups with their own, equally valid creation traditions and practices. That is not to say that other other non-hominid living beings are not important at this time of year and this includes particularly sensitive and often overlooked not-harvestable endangered taxonomic groups and island endemics.

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