2006-08-18 02:03:54 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ichi-san.
I think there's something you should know about mature free-thinkers, atheists, etc. that will clear this up for you.
First please understand that not very many of us are on a full- time crusade against superstition and dogma.
Second, we share the world with people of varying degrees of religiosity, and many of them are our loved ones.My own younger brother goes by the title of "Reverend." (We kiddingly refer to him as the disgraceful "white sheep" of the family.)
These "social" things are dealt with the same way we all deal with the various other eccentricities we find among friends and family. So at Christmas, if my brother is compelled to send a gift, I will retaliate - usually with a subscription to a science or philosophical journal. And if he says grace while we're having dinner, I keep a straight face.
2006-08-18 02:55:41 · answer #1 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They usually exchange gifts during some time of the year and are not "married" to doing it on Christmas. This makes it rather convenient, for example, for those that want to use the after Christmas sales to get stuff instead of payig the whole retail price.
2006-08-18 02:10:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is this meant to be atheist bashing if so stop. Do they celebrate Christmas I do not know. My family does not exchange gifts on Christmas day it has becone to pagagistic and materialistiic.
2006-08-18 02:28:58 · answer #3 · answered by wolfy1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians exchange gifts at Christmas - and Christmas isn't a Christian Holiday... it's a Druidic/Wicca one.
So, in a sense, because Druidic/Wicca is open to everyone and they don't care two cents about your soul - they think that's your personal responsability. In other words - everyone can celbrate trees and the birth of the sun! Woohoo! Yeah even Christians!
:P
2006-08-18 02:13:14 · answer #4 · answered by Solrium 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently Vicky is in a giving mood. Being an atheist is cool eh. I wish I was cool as that, but as a pagan I have to celebrate Beltane and Hogmanay / Winter Solstice of course. Fire and Ice, rather than an 'always coca cola' fest.
2006-08-18 02:41:53 · answer #5 · answered by McAtterie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Giving gifts on Christmas is completely a commercial thing, it has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus. Of course we exchange gifts, we are materialists.
2006-08-18 02:10:58 · answer #6 · answered by blackturmaline 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I even have on no account celebrated Christmas. yet there is not any longer something incorrect with celebrating it the two. My mum and dad have been atheists and we on no account celebrated any holidays. Now they are Christians and desperate to maintain the no holiday in our kin. rather we donate money, food and garments to the undesirable. We pass via what the time-honored individual spends and donate that plenty to help human beings in united states of america of america. the the remainder of the time my mom is a missionary in third international countries
2016-09-29 09:57:49 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure they do I think a lot of people forget what Christmas actually is, it's not about getting gifts and stuffing yourself to the brink of illness with food.
2006-08-18 02:10:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
we do, because we are culturally 'christian.' we put the christian nativity scene, cause i always loved playing with it, under the pagan christmas tree.
christmas was originally a pagan holiday, still has tons of pagan trappings, and it's just really a nice time. we just don't have a birthday cake for jesus as some folks I know do.
2006-08-18 02:10:11 · answer #9 · answered by cassandra 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no we exchange gifts on xmas. We have Santa Claus and reindeer, and jack frost, and frosty the snowman.
2006-08-18 02:12:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋