celebrate Christmas or moderate a children's church choir??
Religion should be made fun of. If I believed that stuff, I'd keep it to myself. -Larry David
Christmas: Because they grew up celebrating it, and lately, it's become a holiday of secularism.
Church choir: Because she needed the money.
and you knew that answer before even posting the question.
Even though they started out as atheists in their youthful pride and arrogance, they cannot escape certain comfort that a church provides on the Christmas eve as Barrett looks at Jenny conducting a children's choir. Jenny at her deathbed agreed to having a Catholic funeral. In their youth pride they had turned their backs on religion, but as they get more mature and realize that life is not as easy and simple as they had thought, they think that perhaps there's more to life than just youth arrogance of two Harvard-educated brats.
In Oliver's Story, a sequel to Love Story, not only does Oliver reconcile with his father but also enjoys going to church and singing Christmas carols. Oliver comes back to where he had been a long way back - back to his family tradition, back to the religion of his childhood, and back to his family business.
Christmas is a pagan festival that was stolen by Christians so it doesn't really belong to any religion.
I'm an atheist and we celebrate Christmas, we know that Christ never existed but it's nice to relax at the year end and spend time with the family and that's what Christmas means to me.
I'm 33 now but I hope as I get older I don't feel like I need religion as a crutch. I'd rather believe nothing than a pack of lies.