Why do they let everyone celebrate Hanukkah Kwanzaa and all the others.. but want to change Christmas??
2006-12-16 14:00:08 · 18 answers · asked by jlbawsome 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The war on christmas is mostly waged in your imagination.
2006-12-16 14:02:27 · answer #1 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Partly, it's because Christians assume that everyone else ought to be Christian. That they should celebrate THEIR holiday. "Merry Christmas" when I'm wearing a Pentacle, an obviously NON_CHRISTIAN symbol isn't really welcoming to me, who has to put up with a religion that coopted a PAGAN holiday in order to make more Christians.
I had a wonderful experience of being in a store, and heard the words "Merry part" when I left, with one associate recognizing my Pagan faith, and offering a comment that recognized my faith in an apropriate manner.
On the other hand, I've had Christians make comments about "praying for my soul" and crap like that.
I don't have a problem with Christmas. I do have a problem with Christians thinking that's all that goes on this time of year. That Christmas, instead of Yule or Solstice is the real "meaning of the season".
Christ was born in September or October. That's been undisputably proved. The takeover of Solstice, the celebration of the birth of the Pagan God by Christians, coupled with the self-righteous attitudes of so many of them is one of the reasons we're fed up with everyone telling us that it's about Christ.
It's about the shortest day of the year. It's about cultures wondering if they had the necessary supplies to survive until spring. It's about the lengthening of the days. It's about the Sun standing still. It's about the circle of life and death. It's about survival. It's about the Goddess giving birth to the God.
Mary and Christ came along some September or October centuries after the Goddess and the God.
One last though... If you, as a Christian, were greeted at WalMart with "Happy Solstice, Blessed Be", what might be your thoughts. Especially, if you were bedecked with a WWJD bracelet, and a cross hanging from your neck, and little cross earrings, etc.
The point is this: I DON'T MIND CHRISTMAS! What I mind is people thinking that it's the only holiday at the time, and that we all should be happy to hear "Merry Christmas". I don't like people thinking automatically I'm insulting them for offering my own holiday greetings. I'm tired of the high-horse attitudes.
Whatever.
2006-12-16 22:20:43 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No ones taking the Christ out of Christmas because Christ never had anything to do with Christmas. Christmas isn't a religious holiday, Christ wasn't even born in December.
2006-12-16 22:10:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No one wants to change Christmas. Well, actually, there are some very conservative Christians who would like y'all to not do anything but spend the day in prayer...but the rest of the world doesn't want to change Christmas.
That one day, that is.
What we'd like, some of us who who also have holidays in December, is for y'all to not try to claim the entire month as just being for and about you and your holiday.
We'd like simple things like "Happy Holidays" as an acknowledgment that there ARE other holidays that other people celebrate. What we'd like is a little courtesy, a little sharing, a little of the "spirit" that y'all keep talking about - you know, the spirit of being *giving*.
2006-12-16 23:48:09 · answer #4 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate that!! You can't take Christ from Christmas. He is the reason for the celebration. I think they have gone way too far in political correctness. It's stupid. There are more Christians than not and we shouldn't allow it. Unfortunately the people making these rules are all working for the minorities.
2006-12-16 22:08:33 · answer #5 · answered by Just Amber 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They don't just want to take Christ out of Christmas. They want to take Him out of everything. The reason being that we are living in "the last days". The world will continually become more wicked, until God says, " ENOUGH!"
Satan knows he only has a short time left to deceive men and take them to hell with him, so he is working overtime to take as many as he can.
2006-12-16 22:30:48 · answer #6 · answered by delmaanna67 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one wants to change Christmas. We'd just like it if the other holidays were acknowledged once in a while too.
2006-12-16 22:12:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only a small vocal minority want to do that. The overwhelming majority have no problems with the Christian meaning of Christmas.
2006-12-16 22:06:51 · answer #8 · answered by robbob 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know why people want to change Christmas? Because Christ is no longer a symbol of unconditional love. Christ is a symbol of intolerance, hate, persecution, and greed. The followers of Christ can worship anywhere they choose, as openly as they choose, without fear of persecution, but anyone who is African-American, Jewish, Pagan, etc.had better be careful where they worship, because they might offend the delicate sensibilities of open-minded Christian children who haven't been indoctrinated yet with the dogma of "hate and persecute anyone different."
That's why people want to change Christmas. They want Christmas to be a season of love and peace, not a season that celebrates the birth of a deity who started out loving but turned into a monstrous abomination that violent hate-mongers used as a banner in their various campaigns to oppress, persecute, and murder people who were different.
BTW, it's a sad state of affairs in this country that we had to have laws made so that the people who wanted to celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and the other myriad holidays that never get mentioned could actually celebrate them in peace. Laws had to be made so that the followers of your Christ couldn't persecute and harm the people who wanted to celebrate different holidays. Followers of Christ ostracized, harmed, and even killed the people who wanted to be different, who wanted to celebrate their Jewish heritage, their African heritage, and others who wanted to celebrate their own unique backgrounds. Hitler killed millions of Jews in the name of Christ. People in the US who persecuted African Americans did so in the name of Christ. Don't forget the Crusades, where the followers of Christ murdered millions of Moors, and the Inquisition, where the followers of Christ burnt a path of destructiion from town to town, leaving whole villiages decimated by witchhunters.
The modern followers of Christ are merely reaping what the previous followers of Christ have sewn--a heritage of violence and murder. No wonder people nowadays are wanting to take the Christ out of Christmas.
2006-12-16 22:21:11 · answer #9 · answered by Bastet's kitten 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know. My question is why take Saturn out of Christmas? He was the original reason for the season.
2006-12-16 22:15:44 · answer #10 · answered by Brendan G 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christmas isn't about Christ, it's about presents!
2006-12-16 22:07:43 · answer #11 · answered by atheist jesus 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋