Resolved: Atheists Shouldn't Observe Religious Holidays 2

I accept your challenge Grumpy. You posted all lot of definitions round one so I expect you to keep those. "So I am taking the Con and pose this debate to anyone who is willing to tell me why I should NOT observe Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, Rosh Hashanah, L. Ron Hubbard's birthday or Halloween." I note your use of the term OR in this sentence. So this indicates all I must do to negate the resolution is effectively show why you should not observe at least one of them. To come strait to the point One should not observe any holiday, even if one is not an atheist. They have no logistical providing purpose for you personally. They either take up your time or your money celebrating the customary or accepted way. At Christmas time the customs dictate you buy presents for relatives you may not necessarily like. At thanksgiving the social imposition is put on you or perhaps someone close to you that you care about to put together a feast for these same relatives to eat. Icons like plastic eggs and green attire has lost their symbolic meaning to us they used to have for people. When one drives by a house with Christmas lights on it nothing iconic really comes to mind about light and righteousness as supposedly intended, only 'hey those look pretty' and maybe 'I wonder how they made those work that way' or 'were can I buy lights like that' It takes time and energy and money to put up those lights on your house. In this flip flopping economy every penny you have counts. To assure security in ones finances one should not live beyond their means by purchasing things that do them no good. One should not stay home Halloween night passing out candy when they could be using this time to work overtime and get paid more! It is common knowledge that most jobs cant let you work on holiday's without paying a greater amount than is standard. Logistically one can hardly justify expending ones time on trying to follow the acceptable customs of holidays when you have the alternative of using that time on something that will reward you with cash not normally at an option for you to acquire. Even if you believe in God you can avoid celebrating all these things without contradicting your scriptural beliefs because most of them are not even mentioned in those scriptures. Without believing in a God their is even less of interest offered by these holiday's. Even if there was something to consider of interest for you, it could never come off as the better choice of your options in what to do with your time, because overtime on holiday's pays a large amount compared to whatever your standard income is. So in conclusion 1) spending time and resources on resources pays back as much as investing your money in watching a baseball game at a stadium. 2) The customary symbols of the holidays are not very effective at communicating anything to you as part of your surroundings 3) Overtime on holiday's is a much more fiscal, thrifty, and logical use of your time. Therefore you should not pick the less logical of actions; as long as we are purely talking about what one 'should' do. and the less logical Is observing the customs of these holiday's. http://www.opm.gov...