{"id":9092,"date":"2021-12-07T12:49:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2021-12-08T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:27:22","slug":"christmas-songs-for-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9092","title":{"rendered":"TOP TEN CHRISTMAS SONGS FOR ATHEISTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The criteria: Songs cannot have any mention of God, Jesus, <\/strong><\/p>\n

angels, saints, or miracles. Not even in Latin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

10. White Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n

9. Jingle Bells<\/strong><\/p>\n

8. Sleigh Ride<\/strong><\/p>\n

7. Silver Bells<\/strong><\/p>\n

6. We Wish You a Merry Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Santa Baby<\/strong><\/p>\n

3, Carol of the Bells<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Winter Wonderland<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Deck the Halls. It\u2019s totally gorgeous. It\u2019s unrepentantly<\/strong><\/p>\n

cheerful \u2014 jolly, one might even say \u2014 with just a hint of<\/strong><\/p>\n

that haunting spookiness that makes for the best Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n

songs. It celebrates all the very best parts of Christmas: singing,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0playing music, decorating, dressing up, telling stories, hanging<\/strong><\/p>\n

around fires, and generally being festive with the people we love\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

And it doesn\u2019t mention God, or Jesus, or angels, or virgin births,<\/strong><\/p>\n

or magical talking animals, or redemption of guilt through blood sacrifice,<\/strong><\/p>\n

or any supernatural anything. Not even once. Heck, it doesn\u2019t even<\/strong><\/p>\n

mention Christmas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2010 + Add New Category <\/a>\/12\/10_best_christmas_songs_for_atheists\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The criteria: Songs cannot have any mention of God, Jesus, angels, saints, or miracles. Not even in Latin. 10. White Christmas 9. Jingle Bells 8. Sleigh Ride 7. Silver Bells 6. We Wish You a Merry Christmas 5. Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! 4. Santa Baby 3, Carol of the Bells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,25,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-humor","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9257,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions\/9257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}