{"id":277,"date":"2010-12-20T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2010\/12\/an-atheist-christmas\/"},"modified":"2012-09-07T19:52:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T23:52:35","slug":"an-atheist-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2010\/12\/an-atheist-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"An Atheist Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019m back home and making up my traditional end-of-semester sleep deficit. \u00a0I\u2019ll have a few substantive philosophical posts this week (I\u2019m finishing the Eight Questions series<\/a> before Christmas), but I will be supplementing with lighter fare for the holidays: unusual Christmas practices.<\/p>\n

My boyfriend\u2019s mother was surprised to hear I had any family obligations for Christmas, given that my entire immediate family are atheists. \u00a0We do have some holiday traditions, however. \u00a0There\u2019s the traditional Chinese food and a movie on Christmas Day. \u00a0Just like Elena Kagan.<\/p>\n

Before Christmas, we invite family and friends to our house to decorate cookies. \u00a0I was pleased to have Tristyn of Eschatological Psychosis<\/a> over this year. \u00a0Along with typical Christmas cookie cutters like trees and holly:<\/p>\n

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We also have the less traditional, but ever popular America-shaped cookie:<\/p>\n

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The 2008 Electoral College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And, of course, festive cookies can always be reappropriated for entirely different designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\nZOMBIE REINDEER!<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Happy holidays!<\/p>\n

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