I'm not religious but I wants me some presents! But seriously, Christmas just represents good will towards each other and I like that the holiday inspires us to perhaps say and do all the nice things for each other that we might sometimes forget to do during the year.
2006-11-28 06:01:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
johnny w: You raise a very good point but though the festival has clearly been placed deliberately during the winter solstice and borrows from many pagan practices, it is now intended to celebrate, however figuratively, the birth of Christ. If someone celebrates a Druid holiday or a "Wiccan" holiday around that time then, at least in my opinion, that's probably a different holiday...I would think.
2006-11-28 06:08:43 · update #1
The pagans built their holiday on the day the knew Christ would be born just to mess things up.
2006-11-28 08:35:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christmas comes from a pagan holiday traditionally celebrated at the time of the winter solstice. It was appropriated by the Christians, who had no idea when Jesus was actually born. Therefore it need not be viewed as a religious holiday.
2006-11-28 06:07:32 · answer #2 · answered by rollo_tomassi423 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not remotely religions, but I still celebrate XMas. It's the time of the year when I have an official reason to give to those I care about. It's much more a family holiday than religious.
2006-11-28 06:05:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
All I celebrate is the time off from work with pay. I do not have any desire to spend thousands of dollars on friends and family just because the media tells me to. I don't believe in the virgin birth a bit more than I believe in the easter bunny.
I will get together with family and eat, but that's all I do.
2006-11-28 06:08:37 · answer #4 · answered by ÜFÖ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Happy Holidays friend
2006-11-28 06:04:30 · answer #5 · answered by royce r 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is not the only Winter Holiday where gifts are exchanged.
Why exactly is Wicca in air quotes?
2006-11-29 02:35:17 · answer #6 · answered by AmyB 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what christians fail to mention is that actually the date on which we celebrate xmas is not actullay christs birth day but is in fact a mid winter pagan festival but yes it is a time of good will to all
2006-11-28 06:05:31 · answer #7 · answered by jonny w 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You don't have to be Christian to appreciate "good will to all men" and "holiday spirit." I'm non-religious, and I celebrate Christmas with all of my friends of varying faiths. Just because it may have some different meanings to some of us doesn't mean we can't all enjoy it together.
2006-11-28 06:06:45 · answer #8 · answered by Pazu 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it really is a pragmatic vacation that all started earlier the christian era. evaluate a million,000 years in the past in northwest Europe. Come December you've a constrained quantity of sparkling fodder with which to feed your beasts. you've few approaches of protecting your fodder and different flora. the days are short and also you've few functional approaches to eliminate darkness out of your fields and the floor is in all likelihood to be frost hardened and puzzling to until eventually. What do you do? You kill off a large style of your beasts, fatten yourselves with the fruit and vegetables as a lot as you are able to earlier they rot, slaughter your beasts and function a celebration. it really is a convention we nonetheless preserve. As an atheist I rejoice yuletide, and why shouldn't I?
2016-10-07 22:15:19 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think most people celebrate christmas regardless of the true meaning or their relgion. I collect vintage Christmas ornaments, so that is my motivation. Presents and good will are yours. Who knows what other countless reasons.
2006-11-28 06:08:39 · answer #10 · answered by discokevin2001 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋