Recently I made the decision to reject religious sentiment from my life entirely. Naturally of course this means that I have to reconsider the significance of all the religious public holidays that are celebrated in the West. Now don't get me wrong, I love xmas and Easter but not for their religious meaning. The reason I love them and the reason I think most other people do is because it is often the one time in a year that families take time out to sit down have a meal and enjoy each other's company.
This got me thinking that I would rather have the xmas holiday period named after something which I think is more significant to humanity than the birth of Christ. Charles Darwin was the first person to understand just how we came to be on this earth. No he never understood how life was created in the first place (science is working on this one though) but he discovered how modern life has evolved from the first primitive 'proto' bacteria to the mind boggling array of diversity and complexity that exists today. The Theory of Evolution is an example of the triumph of science over mysticism, an embodiment of the realisation that we can live enriching and joyful lives based on the principle of free and rational thought. That in my mind deserves a celebration worthy of a public holiday.
So take part in my poll - would you like to see Christmas day renamed to something more significant to the modern world. I have given a couple of suggestions.
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