Do people who don't believe in Christ celebrate X-mas and what exactly are they celebrating if they do?

Question

Used the abbreviation X-mas to save space. Not enough characters to ask the question any other way. No disrespect intended.

Used the abbreviation X-mas to save space. Not enough characters to ask the question any other way. No disrespect intended.

Answer 1

I find you make a very good point. I find it quite amusing to hear of people denouncing the idea of a God, yet get married or hold their loved ones funeral in a church. Politicians fall to the pressure of a society that want to take Christ out of Christmas yet plan elaborate weddings for their children whom they insist get married by a priest or minister. Funny how it works isn't it!!

Answer 2

Christmas happens to fall on the same day as x-mas.

Christmas is the celebration of Christ's birth. Its a time people remember how glorious it was that day when the world was given a savior.

X-mas is a shopping celebration where you buy things for family members and place them under a decorated tree.

Some people celebrate both together or just one of them, many people just refer to it as the "Holidays"

Thats the way I look at it.

Answer 3

I agree with what a lot of people have already said. You can celebrate the birth of Christ even without believing that he is the "son of god". You can still celebrate the birth of him simply recognizing that he was a great man and preached many positive things. And in celebrating birth you are celebrating the concept of family and children in general. It's a time for families to be together. I have a friend who is a devout catholic and he says that in his family they celebrate Christmas in a very religious way on Christmas Eve, to recognize it as it is in his religion, and then Christmas day is just a time for presents and celebration and being with family. I respect that because it recognizes both sides of Christmas.

Answer 4

Many Christians do not celebrate Christmas or at least not as a religious holiday because it is not something we are told to do. Christmas did not start as a Christian holiday , it came out of pagan beliefs in existence before Christ ever came to earth. We are not told in the Bible to celebrate the birth of Christ and we know for a fact that it was not in December.

Answer 5

I don't know what they celebrate, but my family goes to Church and talks about Jesus and if I couldn't do that. I wouldn't even want to bother. St. Nick a.k.a Santa believed in God and helping the poor, do people hardly look at the poor anymore? Or is it just about themselves? Christmas makes me sadder every year. No one cares about helping anyone it seems just getting their kids presents as they shove people out of the way. Christmas has become sadder than ever and it seems the more Christ is out of Christmas the more greedy people become or is that me? And as an added note Christ wasn't born on Christmas he was born sometime in October I think. Costantine changed it so we would draw away from many pagan holidays.

Answer 6

Celebrating time off from work/school and giving/receiving presents. Besides, what does giving and receiving presents have to do with Jesus? And then, there's the theory that Jesus wasn't born in December anyway. If you haven't noticed, Christmas has little to do with Jesus anyway, it's just another money-making holiday. So taking the christ out of christmas makes perfect sense.

Answer 7

I'm an atheist and I love Christmas. It's a chance to give gifts to everyone I care about. Besides, so much of what we consider "Christmas-y" has nothing to do with religion. The Bible doesn't mention Santa Claus, the North Pole, flying reindeer, Christmas trees and candy canes, yet Christians love incorporating these pagan-esque elements into their holiday. Go figure.

Answer 8

A better question is why are Christians blaspheming by celebrating a pagan holiday as a "holy day?"

"Christmas" is a pagan holiday adopted long before anyone ever thought about inventing the Jesus myth.

Additional comment about the "Yuletide greeting, Merry Christmas":

"Yule was the winter solstice celebration of the Germanic pagans."

"Yule" and "Yuletide" are also archaic terms for Christmas, sometimes invoked in songs to provide atmosphere."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule

Answer 9

Now, what do you mean by "believing in Christ"? He, as a savior of humanity, a good man, a deemed god, son of god? what?
And yes, although back in India.. all celebrate christmas by just hanging around.. listening christmas carols.. watching lighted trees.. all the visible part of celebrating.. jesus's birth. He is thought of as one of the Gods, a good person or someone great.

Answer 10

I participate in Christmas activities, but I'm not a christian. It's a time when my family gets together, gifts are fun to give & recieve, and I like parties. I guess you could say I'm celebrating family togetherness and consumerism. Pagans celebrate winter solstice at that time too...which is very similar to christmas celebrations ;)