Whoo-hoo! It's wintertime!

On Scarborough Country on MSNBC Tuesday night, Ellen Johnson, spokesperson for American Atheists, appeared to discuss Christmas. Her solution to the "uproar" surrounding the display of religious symbols in the public square was jaw-droppingly sad in it emptiness:

"Let me ask you, this whole cry about discrimination is, you know who is doing the so-called discrimination, religious people, so please stop with this discrimination. People who are making these decisions are already religious. I have the solution. Keep your religious displays out of the public schools, public property. This is the winter solstice season, it‘s beginning of winter. Why don‘t we all just celebrate the beginning of winter. . . . I‘ll be celebrating the winter solstice on December 21, something that all cultures celebrate. . . . Mythological Jesus. There was no Jesus. I invite you all to celebrate [the] first day of winter. . . . Jesus was not [an] historical figure."

Let's celebrate the first day of winter! Really? That's the best you can do? And "all cultures" celebrate it? There is nothing in this worldview that gives a person any reason for hope or happiness. It is an empty mindset. And although I am not familiar with the beliefs of atheists (there's an oxymoron), this was the first time I had heard the claim from an atheist that Jesus not only wasn't divine, but he was not even real. Interesting, and further proof that denial ain't just a river in Egypt.