1. Dawkins: I'm a cultural Christian

Comment #100004 by DrMarioMD on December 18, 2007 at 3:53 am

I don't think we need to be helping Christians with their marketing. There is a reason why the Knights of Columbus take out advertisements every year telling us to keep Christ in Christmas and why every year we get to hear about the war on Christmas, brand association.

Many people enjoy the time off work/school, family, food, presents, songs, etc. and there is nothing wrong with that but this gets associated with the Christian faith(Thats the whole reason they stole it from the pagans in the first place). This is merely a marketing trick, just like how McDonalds has toys(presents), high sugar/fattening food(Christmas Dinner), memorable fictional characters(Santa, Jesus, Frosty), etc. so that people associate their restaurant with the good memories they had there as a child and become customers for life.

The Christian meme survives a little bit longer every time we allow this ancient marketing champaign to continue unchallenged.