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Discuss “Agnostics get no yuletime love: Who can enjoy the holiday season?”

It’s tough being an agnostic during the holidays. I still have to buy or make presents for everybody on a graduate student’s budget while taking exams; I still have to be annoyed by Christmas music starting Nov. 1; and yet, I also have to deal with people telling me that, as a non-believer, I shouldn’t celebrate Christmas.

What the hell? (Oh — sorry — can I say “hell” if I don’t believe in it, either?) Nobody would bar me from a Sunday service if I admitted my agnosticism — in fact, they’d probably be thrilled to get the chance to convert me. Does my celebration of Christmas destroy the holiday for Christians just like gay people getting hitched destroys marriage for straight people?

Or, does my secular celebration of...

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