2006-12-08 23:15:59 · 23 answers · asked by kittana! 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-12-08 23:35:01 · answer #1 · answered by . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because Christmas is mostly a secular holiday. BTW, the TRUE meaning of Christmas is a celebration of the season. Pagans celebrated this long before the Christians came around. Christians decided to celebrate their dead prophet's birth on this day, even though their own book indicates he wasn't born in winter.
Let's look at the elements of Christmas:
Christmas trees - Pagan, Secular
Santa Claus - Pagan/Commerical/Renamed after a Christian saint
Visiting family - Secular
Giving gifts and receiving them - various, also secular
Peace on Earth and goodwill towards men - Secular
Giving to the poor - Secular
Jesus being born - Christians moved his birth to this date to piggyback on a pagan holiday
Holly - Pagan, Secular
Feasts - Secular
Lights - Pagan, secular
Snowmen - Secular
The North Pole - Secular
Tinsel - Secular
Being kind to others - Secular
Being of good cheer - Secular
Parties - Secular
Other than the name, Christmas is mostly secular. So why shouldn't atheists celebrate? We're as charitable, if not more so, as anybody else.
And, yes, it has become overly commercialized, but atheists get annoyed by that just as much as Christians.
2006-12-09 07:20:29 · answer #2 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, no, as an atheist I'm offended by the word "Christ" in "Christmas", so I go around calling it "Xmas" and wishing people "Happy Holidays", and if someone says "Merry Christmas" to me, I sue 'em, and I'd never THINK about having presents and lights and that great Christian symbol the Christmas tree, because doing any of those things would be like admitting that I secretly know that there's a God.
So instead I sit at home plotting my secularist agenda during the day, and at night I run around tearing down crosses and plastic reindeer and inflatible snowmen and all the other Christian symbols.
All hail Satan!
...but unfortunately, last year my little plot was endangered by the efforts of that American mainstay, Fox News. Bill O'Reilly led an effort to stop people like me from secularizing the United States, which of course is only the first step in our plan to force everyone to have an abortion and then get into a gay marriage, and work to pay for national health insurance for atheist transexual prostitutes.
Curses, foiled again! Dang you, Bill O'Reilly!
2006-12-09 07:39:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The winter festivals began as pagan celebrations. Why did christians usurp that for themselves?
Besides, there's very little left of christ in christmas these days. It's really a secular holiday in the US.
2006-12-09 07:18:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some do, some don't...
As for why - today its such a commercial holiday that belief in the Christian element is somewhat irrelevant. Its everywhere, so a failure to participate can be offensive to some...
And why not - its fun for the kids...
Also - Christmas is a renaming and co-option of a pagan holiday (I believe its the winter solstice) - it actually applies to quite a number of people...
Just my .01
-dh
2006-12-09 07:20:16 · answer #5 · answered by delicateharmony 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well. i do.
i don't know how Christmas is linked to Christianity or any other country/religion/tradition and honestly i don't really care.
Christmas is used and publicized by all retailers worldwide. they use this occasion to sell off their goods before they become out of fashion. so basically i guess Christmas does no longer belong to any country/religion/tradition anymore.
and yeah, who would refuse presents?
2006-12-09 08:07:09 · answer #6 · answered by h4ilfire 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate the yule season as it used to be before the christians hijacked it along with all of their other beliefs and days of celebration.
2006-12-09 08:02:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We celebrate the HOLIDAY SEASON as a time for presents ,family and dinners .Anything wrong with that ?
Please don`t say its an evil ritual .
And besides that Atheists aren`t an Organized "religion " so I can`t say we all celebrate !
2006-12-09 07:23:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Seeing that Christams( and Easter) are so bound up in pagan tradition it really should be a case that True Christians should not celbrate Christmas.
The date is so wrong to start with.
2006-12-09 07:44:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't know for sure they do or don't. But if it does, I think every single people do hope & deserve to celebrate the "cherish of love" moment
2006-12-09 07:19:35 · answer #10 · answered by Sky 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if you believe Christmas is still about Jesus, you are deluded and haven't lived in the real world.
2006-12-09 07:41:18 · answer #11 · answered by Alucard 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋