Christmas Day on the New York Times opinion page meant two pro-athiest pieces, but no column to reflect the view of Christian believers on one of their two biggest holidays of the year.One piece was headlined, “Religion Without God,” and the other, “An Atheist’s Christmas Dream.”
Mark Bittman, a food columnist for the New York Times magazine, took a hostile tone to start off, “An Atheist’s Christmas Dream.”
“I’ve spent much of my life trying to ignore Christmas,” Bittman wrote. “As a secular Jew, an atheist and a progressive, my reasons are common. It’s a commercial, obnoxious, even dreaded holiday. But it’s not changing anytime soon and we should make the best of it. (Hanukkah, I might note, is no better, although it gives us an excuse to eat latkes.)” ...
