Quote Originally Posted by oldblue
so you dont celebrate it? I figured you would coz it's the holidays minus the guilt ...

next question if you dont mind, would you reject getting married to a Church nor receive the sacrament of matrimony?
1. how would you want an atheist to celebrate it? You see, that's the thing, "GUILT"....this is what religion teaches.."GUILT"...that we are born a sinner and that we inherited a sin....and "the wages of sin is death"....original sin......guilt and that god has to send his son to save us from the curse of sin...and that jesus paid for it..... the feeling of guilt. Itried to rationalize this story and it did not ring a bell to me.....why would god send his son to death for the thing he started...he created everything..good and evil...including sin and then he sent his son to save us? And why death? Since i'm not a religionist, i'm free of this principle. I'm not a sinner, i wasn't born a sinner and i did not inherit any sin.

The only guilt i would feel is if i let this long weekend holiday go by without treating my family to a nice warm bath at the beach.

2. How would you feel if you get rejected? I would not come in the way of my partners beliefs. If she feels that we should get married to a church, why not. Call it hipocricy...i call it LOVE.