Anyway …

Well, Stephen, old chap, I’m not dismayed by your attitude, but am a bit disappointed, although I knew your credentials.

I’m afraid that Stephen, although, so far, a good constituency MP (with a healthy disregard – if I read between the lines of correspondence from him to a friend) for the potential Muslim takeover of good ol’ Christian Britain, is a Christian of the rather overt variety, and a member of the Christian Parliamentary group thingy.

But, for what it’s worth, here’s my four penn’orth as an atheist. I don’t mind Christ in Christmas. I don’t mind the absence of Christ in Christmas, either. Christ, like Mithras, has been around in the collective consciousness long enough for us to say he’s a tradition. There are so many things we celebrate that also have Christian origins, such as when we depict the Devil in anything we do. I really don’t mind. I do call it Christmas (apart from anything else, it’s easier to say, with less explaining to do, than talking of Winterval or some such Labour- or LibDem-run, council-inspired PC bullshit). I don’t go along with the woolly-liberal PC thing of not calling it Christmas just because it might offend Muslims, Hindus and other guest religions. If this country has come from, or owes its current state to, any religious foundation at all it’s Christianity, and I’d rather do battle with Rowan Williams than Marmalade Armour Dinnerjacket or his mullah nutter leader Hi I Tol’ Ya Car Mendy, the well-known mechanic, who are almost as dangerous as NuFekkingLabour, although the latter might stop at hanging teenagers in public because it wouldn’t go down well with the spin doctors. I thik you can (and many do) refer to it as Christmas (or Crimbo) without forgetting the pagan origins that the Christians papered over.

Oh, this is all just too silly…….

If you want to celebrate something else at the same time of year, that’s fair enough.

The point I’m trying to make is that the true meaning of the winter festival, is whatever you’re celebrating… Royal Mail have merely put on the cards the things that most people celebrate: i.e. not the birth of a great moral teacher, not the winter solstice, not saturnalia, but idols of snow, and a fat dutch pervert.

I mean… An old man, coming into little children’s rooms at night, and putting things in their socks, that’s just *creepy*.

With regards to your comment “A large majority of the people in this country will also regret the Royal Mail’s decision”, I have to inform you that in my humble opinion, I think you’ll find that a majority of people in this country don’t give a shit. Now go away and do something useful!