What do Atheist do on Christmas?

Question

Do some celebrate it while others don't?

I am 13 so stop being so mean! Now I know the history of Christmas.

Answer 1

I use Christmas as a time to be with my family. I don't celebrate it by going to church, or lighting candles, or any of that. I simply go shopping, wrap presents, stuff my face, laugh, open presents, then go home and go to bed.

Just because I don't believe in God or Jesus, doesn't mean I can't enjoy a day off work when my family gets together. Some of my extended family goes to church. I stay at my Grandmother's or my parents or my in-laws and either eat or sleep. It's very rare to get my whole family together at one time. I won't skip it simply because the literal point of Christmas is something I don't believe in.

By the way, I send out Season's Greetings cards...and I say Merry X-mas most of the time.

Answer 2

Christmas was stolen from the pagans. The date was originally used to celebrate the winter solstice. When Christians couldn't force the pagans to stop celebrating it they decided to co-op it and told the pagans they could still celebrate that day, but to celebrate it as the birthday of Jesus. My family and I celebrate the season and it holds no religious meaning for us. I find it very sad and disturbing how so many Christians don't even know the history of their religion.

Answer 3

My family spends Christmas eve serving dinner and giving out gifts for the underprivileged at our community Center.

We go home and wrap gifts while we have hot chocolate & light our tree and windows and the fireplace.

We get up early the next morning and open our gifts....and travel 40 miles to open gifts and share dinner with both of our families.

A lot of love and goodwill.....that's how this atheist celebrates the holiday.

Answer 4

I'm agnostic and I celebrate Christmas. I just don't celebrate it for its religious qualities. Lets face it, Christmas is just as commercialized as valentines these days; but it's a holiday celebrating all the wonder and beauty of giving and loving and sharing...I don't need a god to find joy in celebrating that!

Answer 5

Well, we put up lights and have a tree and give presents. But those are certainly NOT Christian ideas. That was what pagans did at the Winter Solstice well before Christianity. The Christians co-opted the Winter Solstice holiday and overlayed it with Jesus' birth. So we celebrate Winter Solstice; not the birth of Christ.

Answer 6

The same thing most other people do. Enjoy being with their families and eating a good meal. You don't necessarily have to believe in god to celebrate christmas. It's much more than that.

Answer 7

Christmas isnt strictly a christian holiday anymore, it is virtually a global holiday.
So I celebrate and take part in the biggest global holiday of the year.
Yeah man, its a reason to eat, drink and be merry.

nb. What do christian families do on halloween? They go trick or treating of course, in true pagan fashion

Answer 8

We do the same things Christians do: open up presents around the Christmas tree, eat food, and be nice to each other.

This is what the pagans that invented the holiday did, too, before the Christians incorporated it into their religion, and called it the birthday of Christ.

(Probably didn't know that, did you? Look it up sometime)

Answer 9

Well, first they roast dog on an open spit...a dog that has a half-eaten cat in it's mouth which has a half eaten rat in its mouth--which they use for stuffing. The children dance around the graves in a Jewish cemetary singing Ring Around the Rosy, which is actually a song children used to sing about the plague many many years ago. After eating their dog cat rat meal they go and vomit on the steps of a church and dance with the devil and all his little demons while wearing yarmulkes and strings of lights wrapped around themselves. Then they squeeze blood out of little Christian babies like dish rags, and Episcopalian and Protestant ministers drink it from Dixie(R) cups. Then they hold a seance so they can connect with Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Lenin and John Lennon. They sacrifice a one-legged witch-woman named heather mills and add her eyeballs to red felt stockings which they place in a big pot of soup for next afternoon's big dinner. Then they pierce their childrens' noses and put rings through them like bulls have so they can tie rope through the rings and lead the children to the dark cellar where they make them sleep without blankets or heat. After the children are frozen solid, they eat them like popsicles; usually someone gets hair stuck in their throat.

And, then they all die, but there's nowhere for them to go, so their empty bodies fall to the floor and get devoured by maggots right there out in the open until they're all gone.

And that's what the Atheists do on Christmas.

The end.

Answer 10

Christmas from what Ive heard was just made to replace Yule in order to convert more Pagans... so it really has no religious meaning any more except being greedy..