Are you struggling to survive the religiosity of the Christmas period, or do you enjoy the festivities regardless? Either way, here is a selection of our best reads on secularism and Christmas.
1. Christmas: an atheist survival guide
Myra Zepf shares her hints for a happy humanist holiday.
2. In defence of the War on Christmas
Alex Gabriel is one atheist who won't be decking the halls with boughs of holly.
In this 2008 piece, Robin Ince, Ricky Gervais, Simon Singh, Richard Herring, Natalie Haynes, and Ben Goldacre share some seasonally inappropriate Winterval witterings.
When Robin Ince was invited onto TV to debate the "de-Christianisation" of Christmas, back in 2007, the flawed arguments of Vanessa Feltz and Stephen Green left him foaming at the mouth.
5. Blessed Are the Yogurt Makers
Sally Feldman unwraps the complexity of the Christmas present.
6. Let the kids believe in Santa
Atheists shouldn’t crush the magic of Christmas, says Myra Zepf.
The great Christian chronicler of Victorian destitution - and author of classic Christmas novel, A Christmas Carol, was also a "wicked man". Matthews Adams talks to biographer Claire Tomalinabout the conflicted life that fed his art