Christmas Wish Lists
It has been requested that I prepare Christmas wish lists. I’m posting them here for the convenience of friends and family, but I wouldn’t turn down unsolicited gifts from blog-reading strangers, either.
(And, for the record: no, I don’t think it’s hypocritical for atheists to celebrate Christmas. Celebrations of the winter solstice have been practiced far longer than has Christianity, which just co-opted these festivals and inserted mythology about a magical baby. In any event, the modern Christmas holiday is thoroughly secular anyway — trees, lights, cookies, shopping, Jingle Bells, Santa Claus, and flying reindeer don’t carry much religious significance.)