What do non-believers do on Christmas, Easter(Resurrection Day) and Thanksgiving?

Question

To each their own, I go along with the original concept of honoring Jesus' birth and death on Christmas & Easter--granted the commercialism that distorts them. Re; thanksgiving--aren't we thanking someone for our, uh, blessings?

Answer 1

They take the opportunity to have a good time at the believers expense. Any reason to party. Plus deep inside they are all "God Curious" They just want someone to logically convince them He exists. Of course that is impossible. After all God is too great to be contained or boiled down to a string of descriptive words. Thats why when Moses ask God to tell him "who should I tell Pharoah sent me" God said: "I Am". Meaning, The One who always is.

Answer 2

Hi, the Christians were trying to recruit members to it's church many years ago. Some of these people were pagans. The Christians knew that the only way to get them to convert was to let them hold on to a little piece of what they used to believe. This is why Easter for instance is celebrated every year on a different date. The original holiday it coincides with was celebrated on the first full moon in spring. Easter is celebrated after the first full moon in spring. The original holiday (sorry I don't know the name of it) was celebrated during the first full moon after the spring equinox to celebrate the fertility of the earth, this was when they planted crops in the ground. Popular symbols of fertility were rabbits and eggs, hence the Easter bunny. The Goddess of fertility they worshiped was named Ester, which sounds allot like Easter. The holiday was celebrated during the full moon because of the moon's symbolism toward fertility, basically a women's monthly cycle. Even the name Ester is derived from the word Estrus meaning ovulation.

Answer 3

Ah, Christmas and Easter, they do as all the other non-believers do. Get paid holiday pay. Expect presents. And spend the entire day spreading BS about being atheists. On Easter they wear Easter bonnets and look for brightly colored eggs, as they do believe in the Easter Bunny.

By the way Thanksgiving is NOT a religious holiday.

Answer 4

Since it is all so commercial now and not really about the religion any more, most believers do as everyone else and give gifts and eat to much, take the day off from work (sometimes paid) and have a great time. I'm glad I am a believer, but I have many friends and associates who are not. They still put a lot of money into the economy for shopping on those holidays.

Answer 5

First off Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday. Secondly, Christmas and Easter were pagan holidays before Christianity took hold. Christians pilfered the holidays and made them Christian so they would have an easier time converting pagans.
As for what non believers do, they probably eat a lot of turkey, open presents.

Answer 6

I volunteer to work on Christmas, but I still get my parents and brother a little something because they celebrate it. Nothing at all happens at Easter, it's just an average day. On Thanksgiving, I volunteer to work during the day and eat with my family in the evening.

Steve B is right about Thanksgiving.

Answer 7

Chirstmas was "borrowed" from the pagan festival of Winter. Dec. 25th is NOT the day Jesus was born. I thought everone knew that. I celebrate the winter soltice. Just because it happens to fall on the same day a Christmas dosent mena I celebrate religion. Hell we off work anyway, I may as well enjoy it.

Easter: What the hell does a giant bunny and eggs have to do with the resurection of the Chrsit? Nothing. Do you or your kids hunt for eggs? If you do, why? It has nothing to do with you religion.

Thanksgiving? Its not even a relgious holiday. Its they day that the new colonists ate with the native Americans before they killed tham all. It had absolutely nothing to do with religion. And you bringing it up in this question does nothing but prove your ignorance.

Answer 8

Hunt eggs and eat turkey like every body else.
Easter and Harvest festivals(like Thanksgiving) are pagan festivals anyway.

Peace.

Edited: The "original concept of honoring Jesus' birth and death on Christmas & Easter"?
Hellllooooo? Those are "originally" pagan festivals that christianity adopted because the pagans they were trying to convert wouldn't stop celebrating them. Nice try.

Answer 9

Thanksgiving is a nonsectarian holiday, Christmas is the first big meal after thanksgiving without eating turkey leftovers, and easter is a pagan fertility holiday that christians decided to celebrate a missing body on.

Answer 10

On Christmas my family exchanges gifts. Since it's really on a pagan holiday and not the day that Jesus was born it's really not an issue.

Easter we do as all the other Jews, Muslim, non-faith people do, we kick back and enjoy Sunday.

Thanksgiving is a strictly American holiday to commemorate the first harvest of the Pilgrims. So we eat loads of food and argue like any good American family would.

Answer 11

you know, I've never understood this question.

why would people who don't belive in that religion, do *ANYTHING*?

some people seem so confused by the idea of someone not celebrating their holiday... I don't get it.

and btw, thanksgiving is not a religious holiday...

though from what I've read and heard, it seems like its popular for jews to go to chineese resteraunts on christmas, since those don't generally have christmas decorations and such and its less obnoxious.

edit: you know, I think it shows something about the holiday and beliefs for someone to be unable to fathom why people would not celebrate thir holiday if they don't share those beliefs... because that either shows that either they don't see it as being religiously signifigant, or they don't understand that not everyone shares their views. ... or both. which is depressing.