Peppermint

Do you feel that special Christmas holiday feeling? "All of life starts going … soft-focus, with glimmering lanterns and crackling fireplaces . . ." It makes you want to order a peppermint latte (photo). 

It permeates this season (though not as much as it did years ago because of the secularizing trend). Think of the lovely music, like "White Christmas" and "Silver Bells." A mood of good feeling, of well-being comes over us.

Cynics or atheists enjoy it too, but they have to deny that the power which inspires the good feelings comes from the ancient meaning of our Christian holiday. Check out this post from 2016.

What would be the mood of a holiday inspired by ancient Nordic folklore? By ancient Aztec traditions? "What kind of “winter villages” would modern Aztecs have organized?"

This author says, "The fact is that the good cheer, conviviality and family reunions we feel compelled to organize at this time of year really do flow from a long list of powerful truths that our ancestors only learned about because of a single Jew’s birth in Bethlehem."

from The Peppermint Latte Argument for the Existence of God