Is an atheist celebrating Christmas hypocritical

"Your attempt to deny that Christmas is unequivocally related in modern culture to Christianity is nonsense. The very fact that you made the conscious decision to take up the con position on this debate would go to prove that Christmas is absolutely synonymous with Christianity, religion and is contradictory to atheism.", well while presuming things may work in some cases I am afraid you are wrong. The entire reason I took up this debate isn't because I want to defend the atheist concept but actually because globalization reduces the idea of exclusivity to dust. The very notion that any given festival begins to a specific religion or religious outlook is empty when it is celebrated by an entire nation and literally over 25% of the planet. "Even if we take into account the commercial secularist aspects of "selling" Christmas, ie Santa Claus/St. Nicolas, the Christmas tree - a depiction to everlasting/new life, presents - a representation of the gifts given to Jesus by the wise men, living snowmen - reference to otherwise impossible life coming by way of spiritual/deistic intervention they all lead in and relate directly to Christianity or scriptural Christian value.", sure. Except as I had shown last round not really. The Church, the original Church, was not big on this whole idea. History has drown out the reality of this tradition and it no longer matters anymore; what you are saying is both true and false because it is true today, was false yesterday, and may not be true tomorrow. That's what a large span of time does to traditions. "Without the installation of mass commercial manipulation of 'religious festival' you are still left with the ultimate reason it is celebrated within Christian majority nations, and that is that the population is majority Christian and are partaking in the celebration of there cultural identity as Christians. Whether the day or date has been misconstrued, misinterpreted or misunderstood. If you were to ask the vast majority of eg the USA what is Christmas celebrating, the answer would be unanimously the birth of Jesus.", which is exactly true! If you asked a vast majority whose birthday Christmas is they'd say "Jesus!" even though it's not! No one cares anymore. You are constantly proving that the annuls of historical value, that is the true value of celebrating an event, are long dead. Ask anyone and the answer is the same, with people taking offense at Xmas versus Christmas and coining anti-commercialist phrases like "Putting the Christ back into Christmas", where in reality Christmas is now less about faith and religion and more about theocratic control and declarations of sovereignty. "Firstly in America non Christians are in the minority, minority groups in any nation naturally adapt to the culture/way of life of the host nation. It is often a need or desire to fit in and not to offend or create unrest towards oneself. It is also out of mutual respect, as I stated earlier I would not expect Jews, Muslims or atheists to run around town ripping down Christmas trees, but active participation which is something entirely different. Becoming indoctrinated into Christian culture will naturally cause non Christians to take on some cultural practices which are considered mandatory in the society there living in. The question is would they still continue with such practices in a culture or country where they are the religious majority.", such is silliness. The basic reason why Christmas is a national and worldwide holiday is because it's observation comes with the closing of many businesses; even if there was a non-christian collective not celebrating they wouldn't be doing anything else. It's impractical, and nothing more, to even try to deny the basic reality of the situation. It's the same in any country with any national holiday; when the country shuts down and parties you will be too no matter what it's about. "My second point is non Christians can create in Christmas a direct connection or adaptation with there own belief, faith religion. Muslims believe in Jesus/Isa as a prophet in the same regard as Mohammed, they believe Jesus was born to the virgin Mary/Mariam and that she was informed of the pregnancy by way of the angel Gabriel. It has an acceptance of certain celebration as it holds direct parallels with there own beliefs. Jews, Hindus or Buddhists can adapt a Christian Christmas message to also fit in to there belief system which is ultimately that of a creator, an eventual judgement day and a need to do good onto others for your own spiritual fulfilment.", this makes zero sense. You can't even begin to frame Christmas in most religions especially those of Judaism or Hinduism. This is just an attempt to further ostracize Atheists. I don't know why you have such a hard-on against them but for one Buddhism is often atheistic, it is not filled with deities, so the concept that atheists are non-religious people is just not true at all. You are willing to create loopholes for those you approve of, and that's why I took this debate, because I knew you'd be inconsistent. Generally speaking everyone who argues this breaks down to this kind of "cherry picking" nonsense. "Your claim paganism, Buddhism or any other polytheistic/spiritually based religion is non deity based is not true, all have different depiction, understandings and acknowledgements for what god is but they are all in belief of Gods, deities and creators.", that is just utter crap. "Just because you ignorantly misinterpreted something, it does not change its realistic meaning.", I can no longer take you seriously. Forgive me.