It's like they want it all for themselves and if they have to share, it's no fun! Also, they refuse to recognise the fact that both Christmas AND Easter originated as PAGAN holidays (Christmas contains elements of various pagan holidays/rituals, especially Yule, while Easter gets its name from the pagan goddess Eostre/Ostara who turned a bird into an egg-laying bunny!) Yet they STILL claim both these holidays are somehow 100% Christian - never mind the facts! Can't they get it through their knotty little heads that not everything originated with THEM?!??!?
2007-01-02 06:38:41 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Excuse me, but all Christians don't think that. I've never thought that. I don't have a problem with other people celebrating Yule, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, HumanLight, and all the many other winter holidays. The simple truth is that there are other holidays besides Christmas; people celebrate them, and that's okay. Same with the springtime holidays that coincide with Easter. Please stop generalizing.
2007-01-02 06:47:02 · answer #1 · answered by solarius 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
does it really matter if something originated with pagans?? I don't really care. I know that I celebrate the birth of my savior on a randomly chosen day. Christmas is what I call that day, because that is what I was taught. It is important to me to call it Christmas because that acknowledges that it is about Christ to me.
I have no problem acknowledging that there are other holidays, but I don't feel a need to celebrate them. My objection of late is simply the removal of Christmas from so many places. You hear of stores removing every mention of the word from their signage, etc. Yet, they don't remove Hanakku or Kwanza from the signage. That is not equality. Diversity means different things are represented, not nothing can be represented so that it's fair. I see Christmas being removed from sight, and that is not right.
Dec 25th is a day that most businesses are closed. Why?? Because most people celebrate Christmas. It's not just Christians. As a nation, we have acknowledged that day as a holiday, but some are trying to remove it's name. I find that odd.
2007-01-02 14:49:22 · answer #2 · answered by BaseballGrrl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
(1) I have never heard of a Christian who refuses to acknowledge other holidays. In fact, most Christians I have heard of welcome the public celebration of other holidays such as Hanukkah. What we object to is not being able to publicly celebrate our holidays.
(2) If that's all you know about pagan origins of Christian holidays, you need to do a little bit of reading outside so-called "skeptical" web sites. Maybe you should look outside the "spoonfeeding" of Internet "skeptics," most of which prove that they swallow hook line and sinker the atheist line. If you did, you'd learn that Christianity emphasized the truth for people involved in those holidays, saying to people "you want to celebrate on the Saturnalia, bring in trees like the druids, etc, fine; but let me tell you about the true eternal God, about the true light of the world and everlasting man, etc."
They say "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" and, although I don't competely agree with that statement, the question and answers of most of the yahoos on this thread are starting to make me think otherwise.
2007-01-02 14:45:46 · answer #3 · answered by Gary B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not a matter of recognizing other holidays, it's the effort, by many, to eliminate the word 'christmas' from the lexicon.
Regardless of the origins, (and you're 100% wrong concerning easter), a tree covered in lights and displayed in December is a Christmas Tree....not a holiday tree, not a hanukkah bush, not a kwanzaa doohickey. The appropriate greeting to most americans is 'merry christmas'...and you know, if you're not christian and you receive a 'merry christmas'...it's not an attempt to proselytize or and insult, but just a selfless wish of happy times. Take it for what it is and shut the F up.
2007-01-02 14:46:10 · answer #4 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Why do Christians think it's a "War On Christmas" to acknowledge other holidays in the season???
I don't--WE DON'T!
Who declared such a war?
Happy Quanzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzza!
2007-01-02 14:41:56 · answer #5 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Acknowledging other holidays is not the problem, its not acknowledging Christmas that is the problem. People get "offended" by it and get mad when Christmas trees are put in public places. That is what ticks Christians off.
2007-01-02 14:42:35 · answer #6 · answered by premise 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What I love are all the ones who get it confused with Easter and think it has something to do with the resurection. Funny people the Christers are.
2007-01-02 14:44:47 · answer #7 · answered by Barabas 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since many Christians feel that theirs is the one, true religion, everything else is paganism and must be destroyed
2007-01-02 14:44:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My problem is not with acknowledging other holidays in the same season, but that you are discouraged from saying "Merry Christmas."
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-01-02 14:44:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not a war on Christmas to acknowledge other holidays, it's a war on Christmas to commercialize Christmas so that it is no longer religious.
2007-01-02 14:42:34 · answer #10 · answered by Lady of the Garden 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋