This is an honest question. I'm actually not going to mock or down you, just a curiosity of mine. Do you actually call Christmas by its name or do you use a different name? The reason I ask is that Christmas comes from the translation---Christ's Mass. That's generalized I know, but wouldn't it go against your religion to actually call it Christmas. Just curious.
2006-12-10 13:26:55 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry, I guess I never thought about the religion/no religion thing. I appreciate all of you who answered without being rude. The rest of you, well, I guess I SHOULDN'T have expected more from you. People like you prove Christians right more and more, and you just make yourselves look like idiots. I'm still trying to decide between the ones who treated my question with respect, exactly how it was asked.
2006-12-11 01:19:43 · update #1
Nicholas H, the problem with your answer is that even though I may call it Hanukkah. I don't celebrate it, you, however, do celebrate Christmas.
2006-12-11 01:27:41 · update #2
Athiests have no religion, so we can pretty much do whatever we feel is right. To make sense to other people when describing a certain day of the year, it only seems proper to use the common term "Christmas". Saying "December 25th" might just confuse and annoy people, and that's not what we're about, despite popular opinion. :)
2006-12-10 13:31:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Atheists can celebrate christmas.
Christmas is meant to mark the birth of baby jess.
Look in the Bible, jesus was born when lambs were in the field.
Lambs are born in spring time, not winter.
The Christian church, admits that the Christmas day celebration was made on the December 25th to get people to leave the pagan tradition of the winter solstice which is around the 25th of December. They celebrate the winter solstice because they are half way out of the dark times, until spring brings the light back there will be fewer daylight hours
Pagans celebrated the winter solstice by bringing a tree from outside, into their homes, does that sound familiar?
The fact that a society calls it Christmas meaning christ mass, does not make it about jesus or Christianity.
2014-11-09 14:35:48 · answer #2 · answered by Loey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I refer to Christmas, because it's Christmas.... Just like I would refer to any other religious holiday by it's proper name....Just because I don't celebrate it doesn't mean that some of my friends and family don't....
2014-09-21 19:22:06 · answer #3 · answered by Melissa S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not an athiest and I am not religious in any way. I still call it Christmas, I dont celebrate the religious aspect of it but rather the commercialized Santa Claus version...lol You dont have to be religious to celebrate a holiday with your family thats about gifts and getting together with your loved ones. Non-belief in god isnt a religion by the way, its a lack of religion. Since non-believers dont have a religion nothing can go against it.
2006-12-10 21:43:28 · answer #4 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
"Christmas" has become such a generic term, that it's sort of like calling facial tissues "Kleenex" or soft drinks "Cokes." It's lost a lot of it's religious implications, what with all the shopping and Santa Claus and such.
By the way, atheists don't have a religion, so how could Christmas be "against" it?
2006-12-10 21:32:32 · answer #5 · answered by Bad Kitty! 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In English it's called Christmas. I speak English.
Merry Christmas!
2006-12-10 21:31:17 · answer #6 · answered by The Bird 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
i'm a pagan i call it yule as it was in the day of old before christains remade it but it's all cool we all should have a time to share with loved one's that the reason many athiest like christmas not as a religon thing but for fun and sharing time with loved ones. if it's christmas to you or yule or nothing at all it's a nice holiday it gives you the time to be with someone you love.
2006-12-10 21:32:41 · answer #7 · answered by Laughing Man 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This athiest calls it "Christmas." Really... I don't consider athiesm to be a religion, so nothing goes against my religion. :)
Incidentally, you might find it interesting to look up the roots of the word "Easter" sometime.
2006-12-10 21:31:55 · answer #8 · answered by tylerism 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
no. i think my mom is an athiest and she calls it christmas but then again shes really an athiest, she just doesnt beleive in god. thats all. shes also not that into it. shes more budist then atheist which is weird i know.
2006-12-10 21:29:59 · answer #9 · answered by @ |* ! @ n @ ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Since no "Christ" is actually heard in the common pronunciation, our family still calls it that and celebrates it as a family focused holiday.
2006-12-10 21:30:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋