I'm an agnostic atheist and I'm out for about 8 years now. How I handled the shock that the people spewed upon me is a story for another day. Today, I want to talk about Christmas. Been feelin' it for a week or two now knowhatamsayin? The Christmas cheer man. There are twinkling lights and everythang round malls and stuff, beautiful Christmas trees reaching several stories high, this cold wind outside right now that's crippling my fingers making it hard for me to type. Jose Mari Chan songs playin' in every street corner. With families and their kids on the sidewalks, yeah busy sidewalks. Suddenly, people have money you know, with their bonuses and all that. It's all over round you man, people are getting extra happy and sh**. And it's all good yaknow. And the Christmas parties, maaan they don't end. I mean, I haven't prepared any meal for myself lately, just been hoppin' from one party to another. And it's all good yaknow, everything is.
And this is also the time when my believer friends ask me, 'So, you're an atheist. You guys should not celebrate Christmas right?'. And I'm like, 'And miss all the drinking, the food and the presents? Nah maan, I'm atheist, not stupid.' So ya, I think this is what Christmas really is: it's one massive commercialization season. It's all about shopping, spending sh** with Santa Claus as the main mascot. He is the face of corporate manipulation. I mean look a him all fat and smiling, surrounded by lots of material stuff, stuff the G Man wants you to buy. And he has all these workers and laborers who are much smaller than him. These could be children in forced labor disguising as adult elves for all we know. Santa Claus the the archetypal greedy capitalist!
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