Santa Claus birth? Pine trees birth?
2006-11-28 03:23:46 · 26 answers · asked by R.C.P. 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
man your stupidity amazes me. x mas was a Pagan holiday stolen by christians turned into jesus birthday(his actual birthday was close to halloween and most christians didnt like that) anyhoo x mas is a joke from the get go and youre making me laugh harder. Jokes on you, silly fool.
2006-11-28 03:40:36 · answer #1 · answered by badferret 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I celebrate each and every hazard i'm getting. How would I get up for something i do no longer think in? i do no longer think that the hypothetical God, which you're imagining, is definitely authentic. i do no longer hate religions people who have confidence in the actuality of hypothetical deities nor have any destructive emotions approximately celebrating whilst they celebrate, yet for my very own motives. by the way, all of those holidays you point out have been already some style of holiday until eventually now Christianity. Christmas exchange into some style of wintry climate solstice holiday (the beginning of the recent 3 hundred and sixty 5 days). Easter exchange right into a social gathering of (and continues to be named after ) the goddess ?ostre of Anglo-Saxon paganism. etc. Christians also celebrate different human beings's holidays, with purely a veneer of their very own non secular ideals painted over them. -- Regards, John Popelish
2016-10-04 11:32:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I do,as a non-Christian is, I suppose, what a lot of Christians do at that time and celebrate using the old pagan sacred symbols: Holly, Mistletoe, Ivy, Yule Logs; singing (Wassailing) etc.
Just like Easter was originally a pagan celebration of fertility (the Goddess Oestre/Ester--from which we get the word oestrogen and why eggs are used as a symbol of that fertility) is now celebrated as a beginning of new life by Christians--the Resurrection etc.. Also, it was originally the hare not the rabbit that was the animal involved because its breeding season started in March/April time.
2006-11-28 03:37:52 · answer #3 · answered by darestobelieve 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about this?
Celebrating GIVING to people you love and people who are LESS FORTUNATE than yourself.
Celebrating being with people who LOVE you, especially when you don't get to see them as often as you like.
Celebrating that we're all HUMAN BEINGS instead of looking for stupid little differences like RELIGION to pick at each other for.
Celebrating a time of PEACE in which we can forget about things we've done to hurt each other and think about something to make the world a BETTER place?
You want me to keep going or is that enough for you to realize that the true spirit of Christmas isn't what you believe, but what you give?
2006-11-28 05:42:46 · answer #4 · answered by Ophelia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The holidays. Just because I don't believe in Christmas, Hannukah, Winter Solstice, etc. doesn't mean I can't spend that time with my family. They are religious (some at least) and I respect that. Doesn't mean I have to follow it.
Christmas is a commercial holiday. I give presents to friends and family, stuff my face, and enjoy my day off work!
BTW...Winter Solstice was around long before Christmas. They made a Christian holiday to counteract the pagan one.
Get over yourself.
2006-11-28 03:28:44 · answer #5 · answered by Heck if I know! 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yule is the celebration of light in the darkest time of the year. We feast and dance and laugh in the face of death and darkness. We give gifts to celebrate our togetherness and community. We have a festival of lights to celebrate the pending return of the sun, the conquering of light over darkness. It's a reminder that no matter how harsh things get, the cycles of life continue (symbolized by wreathes). The evergreen, the only plant that could survive the harsh Northern winters, is a symbol of everlasting life.
These things are universal human concepts that don’t belong to any one religion.
2006-11-28 03:31:45 · answer #6 · answered by KC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Getting together with friends and family even if I don't believe in the religious aspect of the holiday. I guess it's more like an extension of Thanksgiving for me: being thankful for good health and having a close-knit circle family and friends. Taking time to reflect on my life and what's going well, and what could use improvement. I guess it's basically like anyone else, except that I don't believe in the religious part of it.
2006-11-28 03:30:55 · answer #7 · answered by Miss Maiko 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lets see...atheists deny a god.Atheists don't necessarily disagree with the teachings of Jesus Christ,they just don't believe he's the son of god.Coming from an agnostic I can tell you, just believing in some of the teachings is good enough for me to celebrate.
2006-11-28 03:37:45 · answer #8 · answered by moaistatue 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just FYI Christmas is not Jesus’ birthday……..
Luke 2:8
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in their field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
I doubt that was in the middle of the winter in the northern hemisphere of our planet.
2006-11-28 03:37:22 · answer #9 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Winter Solstice of course. This has been a time of celebrations hundreds of years before religious sects chose the date for their own marketing agenda.
2006-11-28 03:28:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋