2006-07-15 02:10:30 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
ACTUALLY... jesus was not born in the end of december... its was more around april. why the big difference? because by the time people chose to celebrate his birthday as a holiday, they had forgotten what it was. also, the year is actually 2005... cuz there was no '0' between BC and AD so we just skipped a year... we are actually ahead a year. just to let you know.
2006-07-15 02:25:56 · update #1
Christmas has become a cultural phenomenon as well as a religious one. If you feel like celebrating, go ahead. It doesn't just represent the birth of Jesus... It's also just a day to celebrate peace and goodwill and family and friends. Besides, if there is a god, I don't think s/he would mind your celebrating.
2006-07-15 02:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by mathsmart 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm curious why you care if you do not believe in God. Yes, it is a day for God but it seems nobody puts God in it anymore. The tree is not a part of the original Christmas. The pagans brought that into it. It signifies the promotion of life as they had sex under these trees. Now they get all the credit for being the founder of the day. Gee, did they think of the name too? Christ-mass..? The mass gathering around Christ started during the time of Christ. The concept of giving presents was introduced by the 3 philosaphers giving presents to Jesus. Birthdays were also started from this concept. each year people began giving presents. A long unrecorded time passed. Pagans added their ways and took credit for the whole day.
I don't understand how people can spend money to kill a tree but not spend money to save a tree.
I tried to have prayer with my relatives last Christmas but they all refused.
What does Christmas have to do with God? nothing anymore! Even the Christians practice Christmas the same way of non believers.
I'm not a Jehovah Witness because of some serious faults they have, but not everything is false about them. They do not celebrate holidays because holidays have all been manipulated and no longer stand for their original meaning. What does the Easter bunny have to do with the Resurrection of Jesus?
I ask my self a similar question as yours-is it wrong to celebrate Christmas if no one believes in God? afterall, the holiday has been warped, right?
2006-07-15 02:42:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not wrong to celebrate any holiday you want to. Why would you want to celebrate something you don't believe in? It would be like rooting for a team in football that you have no interest in the outcome of the game. It doesn't exactly hurt anything, but life is too short to waste your time, when you could spend it doing something you love.
I celebrated christmas for many years, even tho I have never been a christian. I finally quit buying trees last year. It is a waste of time and money for me.
Christmas, as we celebrate it, is mostly an ancient pagan holiday invented to honor the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice. After Jesus was born, the early church borrowed the existing holiday for the birth(return) of the sun (son.)
You can believe in gods or goddesses, allah, or the tooth fairy, and not celebrate the birth of a half-god/half-teenager in a stable.
Celebrate!
2006-07-17 07:42:26 · answer #3 · answered by Lottie W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is just what you make of it. Forever and a day there have been great winter celebrations, most contributing traditions to the Christmas we celebrate today.......
It is Sol Invictus - birthday (or rebirth to be precise) of the sun celebrated on winter solstice
It is Yule - another winter solstice celebration of the Germanic Pagans
It is Saturnalia - the Roman Pagans' feast of the god Saturn. Saturnalia is where the giving of gifts originated from. The Christmas tree comes from the ancient pagan idea that the evergreen represents renewal of life, or eternal life. It's said that during Saturnalia people would trim their homes with evergreen clippings, wreathes and even decorate living trees with replicas of their gods.
Even kisses under the mistletoe have roots in old legend and tradition. Nothing to do with Christianity, and of course Santa Claus is notoriously irrevelant to the said sole reason for the holiday.
With the meshing of so many holidays and traditions (including Kwanzaa which was only created in 1966 by Ron Karenga) Christmas truly is, most simply THE holiday season. So these days it's a vastly secular holiday, with an almost indistinct background most would say is made up of snow, sparkles, nostalgia, good will, and receiving lavish material goods in abundance. :)
2006-07-16 21:10:40 · answer #4 · answered by belleofchernobyl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, actually the holiday as it is celebrated on the 25th of December was taken from the Pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice. The Christians adopted that as the birth of Christ in order to convert the Pagans to Christianity. Historians have proven that Christ was actually born in the late Spring because Mary and Joseph had traveled to Bethlehem so that Joseph and his family could be counted in the census and pay his taxes which were done in the late spring.
2006-07-19 23:07:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can celebrate anything you want. Just because you don't believe in god doesn't mean you don't believe in giving, good will, peace on earth, and loving family and friends. The holiday was not created for him. It was adapted from a Pagan holiday. I still love the feeling I get around Christmas. And how everyone is a little nicer. I don't believe in god but I believe in Christmas! Why can't we all just get along?
2006-07-20 20:03:06 · answer #6 · answered by Sunshine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is becoming a secular holiday, it seems. So, you can still celebrate it even if you don't believe in God.
It is supposed to be a season of giving and sharing. You can do that no matter what faith you have. Showing kindness and generosity doesn't require you to be Christian, Jewis, Muslim , or anything for that matter.
Christmas began as a pagan holiday, anyway.
Enjoy the customs (cookie making, watching tv specials, listening to the carols, meeting friends, etc.).
2006-07-15 02:26:50 · answer #7 · answered by Lizzie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter that Jesus wasn't born at the end of December or not, what does matter is that He was born. If we celebrated your birthday a month after it happened, is it any less a celebration?
You can OBSERVE Christmas, but not celebrate it. You can't celebrate something you don't believe.
2006-07-19 09:50:40 · answer #8 · answered by happymommy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully one day you will realize that the love, happiness, goodwill and peace to mankind that you lovingly feel at Christmas is what God is all about. True Christians get that cozy feeling throughout the year. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved! Then you won't have to worry about if you should celebrate Christmas or not.
2006-07-15 03:14:22 · answer #9 · answered by Ilovechristjesustheking 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the holiday was created to celebrate the birth of Jesus (which it was) and you don't believe in God, who is the father of Jesus, the how can you celebrate it?
and your wrong about when he was born it was around the last part of September.
so to answer your question, YES it is wrong if really don't believe in God.
2006-07-20 18:00:02 · answer #10 · answered by jskemper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋