Upon Hearing, As An Atheist, “Merry Christmas.”

I Bet It’s Not What You’re Thinking

Robyn Sinead Sheppard

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It’s that time of year again, when most of the western industrialized world capitalizes on the story of a poor refugee child in order to make money.

Oops! I meant to say “remembers and marks the birth of Jesus the Christ. (And now you know His real middle name, and it’s definitely not “H.”)

He shares His middle name with other famous icons: Winnie-the-Pooh, Smokey the Bear, Billy the Kid, and many others.

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Robyn Sinead Sheppard

A happily retired technical writer, I write in order to understand what I'm thinking. I'm walking wounded from the Sexual Revolution.