Why do people who arent christians celebrate christmas?

Question

If you are not religious, why would you celebrate a religious holiday? Is it just to get gifts? You get gifts at hannaukah (

Answer 1

maybe people like to shop and give each other gifts. i am not offended that non-christians celebrate christmas. heck i celebrate hannakuh with my jewish friends. it's fun and it brings people together

Answer 2

First of all, celebrating at this time of the year was not originally a Christian tradition. It was a tradition in many places to celebrate winter solstice or Pagan festivals in December and the church adapted to that to attract converts and make it easier for them to adjust to Christianity. Against popular belief, nothing suggests Jesus was born in December.

People have different reasons for celebrating at this time of the year, some of the reasons being religious and some of them not. Personally, I'm an atheist and I celebrate Christmas for the sake of family spirit and tradition. To me Christmas is the holiday when the family comes together to spend quality time together. A part of my family celebrates Christmas for religious reasons, a part of it just for the sake of tradition and unity in the family.

I don't care about getting presents. In the past few years I've asked my family not to give me Christmas presents, because I think Christmas is becoming too commercial and stressful. I just want us to have a good time together and for once forget about material things. I do enjoy the good food and colorful decorations though.

Answer 3

Actually, Christmas is a pagan holiday that was adopted by the Catholic church centuries ago as a way to draw in the pagan/non-believer crowd. Christmas trees have nothing to do with Christ and nobody knows when Christ was born, the date is actually Julius Ceasar's birthdate. Those facts aside, Christmas is a warm time of year, a time to give gifts wherein people don't question your motives, a time to be with family and loved ones, to bake things you normally only have around Christmas time and a time for sharing. Everyone is usually lighthearted this time of year. The lights and ornaments are pretty.

As to Hannuakah, the holidy did not start out with gift giving, that came later for Jewish parents trying to keep up with the Christmas holiday so that their own children didn't feel left out.

Answer 4

I celebrate Christmas to celebrate Christ. Yes, I do my my children and other family member gifts, but I also teach my children the real meaning of Christmas. I do not attend church now, but I used to. But that does not really matter, what matters is I do believe in Jesus and I know he died for all of us. And my children will grow up believing also, or at least I pray they will.

As for many other I know, they celebrate Christmas just to be together with their family, building the bond and sharing a joyful,loving time.

Answer 5

Why do christians keep asking the same question over and over again? This seems to crop up pretty much every day. Ok, to paraphrase the response that everyone is fed up of giving, 'Christmas' is a midwinter festival that already existed and was renamed by Christians in an attempt to convert the pagans. Thats why we don't celebrate it on Jesus' real documented date of birth (around end jan/beg feb according to census) because it was a compromise. If you search the yahoo archives you will find similar responses. In the same way that the Church's image of Satan was adapted from a pagan male god of fertility, some things are compromised from other religions. You will find a lot of parallels if you study this area.

Answer 6

Many People celebrate it as a secular holiday. I personally love the cheeriness, the lights, the food, the parties, the music and the fact that people are just a bit nicer during the holidays. One does not have to be a christian to enjoy these things.

Is it really that difficult to go out of your way to look up how to spell Hanukkah?

Answer 7

Because CHRISTMAS IS LIKE SANTA CLAUS

You know the Fatman is a fake and a lie, but you go along with it anyway, as you deceive the kids and make them future liars to their own kids.

The Dictionary of the Bible says that: By the 5th. Century, the Church (of Rome) had concerned itself enough to have set December 25 as the date of Jesus’ birth. This had been the date of the Festival of the Sun God Zeus and to the Christians a greater light was come, Jesus Christ, the true light of the World.

Fact is - the Sun God is Zeus, and Jesus is really Jezeus, and the Romans worshipped Zeus, and you can see Barnabas being called Zeus by the Priests of Zeus in the Acts of the Apostles 14:12-13, in the Bible. Mithra was another son of Zeus, but Je-Zeus was Zeus come down as his own son, which made him strictly a Roman God.

Sunday is also the day that was set aside for worship of the Sun God (Zeus) by the Romans.

The Winter Solstice gives us the shortest day in the year, December 22, as the birth of the new Sun, so Rome shifted it to the 25 December in order to celebrate the Feast of the Circumcision eight days later, on 1 January, in accepting Jezeus Christos as the Living God of the Sun risen from the dead.

Zeus and the Fathers of Christianity did not know there was a Southern Hemisphere that did not share the Sun God Zeus or his four seasons, or his twelve disciples or twelve months of the year with the Northern Hemisphere, and it is for this reason that Australia celebrates Christmas twice each year, with the White Christmas falling in June but is called Christmas in July since they know it is a lie.

So Christmas and Christianity were as ignorant of the nature of the Planet as was Santa Claus of the South Pole, and just as the Pope was afraid that Christopher Columbus might fall off the flat Planet in his attempt to reach India traveling westwards, so were Santa Claus and Zeus afraid to go below the Planet and into the Fires of Hell.

When Pope John Paul ii declared the Shroud of Turin a medieval fake after having it scientifically carbon-dated in 1988, he failed to point out that the Bible describes the use of two shrouds, with one for the head and another for the “body” of the 100 lbs of aloes and myrrh, the other perfect hoax.

TRY SOME HONESTY THIS YEAR.
EXPOSE THE FRAUD OF SANTA THE UNHOLY.

BRING THE TRUTH OF THE MESSIAH FROM THE QURAN TO LIGHT SO THAT MEN WHO ARE BORN BLIND MIGHT SEE THAT THE ONE TRUE GOD CAN HAVE NO SON OR NO PARTNER
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HE IS ONE, HE ALWAYS WAS, HE IS, AND HE ALWAYS WILL BE!

PEACE ON EARTH AND GOODWILL TO ALL OF HUMANITY!

Was it Jesus who said, “Think not that I am come to send Peace on Earth. I came not to send Peace but a Sword.” Matthew 10:34?

So! Christmas is like Santa Claus, and so is the naming of the baby Jesus since the Gospels exclude the mother from this false naming of the child and the prophecy of Isaiah 7:14, states that the mother shall name the child “Immanuel”.

Answer 8

If Christmas is about Christ then why do so many Christians go out and by so many gifts?

I dont have to be a Christian to believe in Christ.

Answer 9

ok so christians don't exchange gifts? different people have different beliefs ya know. christmas is such a beautiful holiday. why wouldn't a true christian want nonchristians but still good people to celebrate it? that would be like asking "why do people who aren't christians go to church?" as long as their heart is in the right place i think it's more than ok for nonchristians to celebrate christmas.

Answer 10

I celebrate the season as my family are Christians and the American culture is largely of that belief. As a Buddhist, I certainly embrace love, peace, acceptance and good will among folks. As a capitalist, I understand that our economy depends greatly upon Christmas sales. Whether this is right or wrong does not matter as it is reality. Many retailers operate at a loss for most of the year and Christmas sales are the source of their income.

Answer 11

because christ came for all people not for christians only!!but only some christians followed him!!chritians may be celebrating the feast but not the christ (the owner of the feast) same for non christians!!they r just doing what all people r doing!!beleive it or not we celebrate ramadan in egypt (christians & moslems)but we dont fast!!same for moslems!!they can buy a christmas tree but they will not go to church though some of them do!!but to hear christmas carols not to pray!!