what do atheists call christmas?

The best I could do was find a defintion of the word for you:

I knew a half Thai "atheist" a decade ago. He called Christmas "Christmas" and called his parents in Tifton, Georgia and wished them a "Merry Christmas." I recall he was also calling other mysterious "friends" and wishing them a "Merry Christmas" on his cell phone.

I call it Christmas, because that's how most of the population understands it. I would venture a guesstimate that a majority of Christians believe Christmas was Jesus' birthday, so they wouldn't understand if I said "Happy Winter Solstice," and I don't have the time to stop and explain something to someone who's not going to believe me anyway.

Sad, but true.

Why Kwanzaa Eve of course! Or is it the Night Before Clearance Sales? It's just a name. Do you automatically expect to go to Catholic mass because it's "Christ-mas"?

"Easter" is very odd. The name isn't Christian at all. Many countries properly refer to it as the "Pasch". Yet I don't see any English-speaking Christians agitating for a name change.

Christmas, that's what the holiday is named after all. I call the day after Boxing Day although I don't worship boxes.

If writing to secular friends I write Xmas just because its shorter. On Y!A I usually spell it out out of respect to those that believe even though the X in Xmas is the Greek letter chi and it stands for Christ.

I say "Merry Christian-Converted Pagan Holiday Day!" for both Christmas and Easter... and then I stuff my face.

Christmas. A party. Mayday's a pagan festival. If we get rid of religion, we can still have a party at Christmas.

Christmas. I'd refer to it "obligatory state mandated holiday that my parents celebrate even though we don't go to church because they both came from semi-religious families", but people are prone to die from exhaustion if I say that more than once in a conversation.

Happy Holidays, Christmas, whatever. I get those days off irregardless of my unbelief, might as well do something with it.

Christmas is Christmas. What do you call Channukah?

Nothin' better to do, eh?

Just feelin' that good ol' christian need to belittle someone, huh?

Felt ya just might burst if ya didnt get to "down" somebody one more time before bed, right?

Maybe I just "read" you wrong but you really do sound saaarrrcastic in type.

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