2006-12-05 14:08:31 · 24 answers · asked by Quantrill 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't mind sharing. I just expect to be treated as respectfully as I treat others.
Blessed Be and Happy Holidays
2006-12-05 14:11:12 · answer #1 · answered by Celestian Vega 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
You can't take what is not yours. The Christians have chosen to celebrate the birth of the Savior at the same time as the pagan festivals intentionally to make it easier for those pagans to switch over to the church. Wrong? Probably not a wise choice as most of the 'traditions' celebrated now have their roots in the pagan holidays they were trying to supercede! Christians who choose to study find they do less of the Christmas traditions.... and some even find that the true birth date would be in the spring or the fall.... and not in December at all!
2006-12-05 22:19:35 · answer #2 · answered by Orpah! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't you already? Don't you celebrate with a yule log or circling at the Solstice? Do you *really* want the commercial spectacle that is now Christmas to befall you?
"Attention K-Mart shoppers: blue light special on rain sticks in Aisle 5"
Pagans enjoy this season, too. So let's all get a cup of cheer and stop bashing each other.
2006-12-05 22:17:09 · answer #3 · answered by FL LMT 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
(cue sappy christmas music)
Christmas is for everyone...
I say they are welcome to join us in the celebration of our great holidays such as Christmas, Halloween, Easter, and Groundhog Day (yes, even Groundhog Day).
In fact, our family has even borrowed from the borrowers by creating a Pagan nativity scene, complete with forest animals and robed figures gathered around the baby Sun King.
It was very generous of the Christian faith to preserve our wretched Pagan holidays for the last 1500 years.
2006-12-05 22:17:01 · answer #4 · answered by Redcap the Druid 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Considered it, yes.
We wouldn't care, so long as they didn't claim it to be a completely original holiday they made on their own, and that the original is fake/demonic/satanic.
Kind of like stealing someone's report, changing it a little, and saying the original was horribly written.
- 16 yo Pagan
2006-12-05 22:11:27 · answer #5 · answered by Lady Myrkr 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
we already did that. we integrated out culture and customs into their religion.
Why else would you celebrate the birth of a man that was born in a desert, in the fall
in the middle of the winter, by decorating your home with holly and evergreen trimmings and decorating an evergreen tree?
(dont even get me started on easter)
why do the vast majority of them worship a TRIUNE GOD.
Why do the burn insence and walk it the circumference of their building before starting a mass.
pretty much everything with the exception of the "ticket to heaven" plates that they pass around every week.
2006-12-05 22:18:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can't speak for all Pagans, I can only speak for myself. What Christians celebrate has no effect on my celebrations and holidays. To each their own, live and let live.
2006-12-05 22:29:29 · answer #7 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are way more Christians than pagans in America. Most westerners won't give up Christmas to worship nature. The Winter Solstice is the hibernation of life, Christmas is a celebration of it.
2006-12-05 22:13:02 · answer #8 · answered by Draco Paladin 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It'd be nice if we could be given equal recognition and freedom to celebrate as openly as everyone else, but I don't think it's necessary to "kick the Christian demigod" out of it - their holiday means as much to them as ours does to us.
2006-12-05 22:11:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If I was a Pagan I sure would be pissed at some other cult stealing my holiday.
But i worship the FSM. Long live the his noodly appendages!
2006-12-05 22:11:39 · answer #10 · answered by themicrowavemaster 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋