I had a Christmas carol stuck in my head today. The ironic thing about that music as an atheist is that my favourite holiday songs have always been the religious ones. The words themselves don't mean anything to me, though some are poetic in an of themselves, but the music itself tends to be more beautiful than the tunes most secular Christmas songs are set to. Maybe it's just more difficult to come up with a spectacular melody about Santa Claus and reindeer.