after all Christ is the reason we celebrate Christmas. So lets leave His name in Christmas.
2007-02-04 12:58:56 · 9 answers · asked by squirrel 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
No the holiday of Christmas was actually a celebration of the winter solstice...on or around the 21 of December. to celebrate a good crop or good fortune that year, people would exchange gifts. When the Christians were creating the myth of christ, they stole this holiday to try and give there bogus belief system some credibility. It is not about christ at all...
2007-02-05 03:15:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had a parochial school upbringing so I have had a lot of religious teaching in my life. I also took it upon my self to ask questions and study various other religions and their practices and rituals because I wanted to know about them. In asking questions, I did find out that Christ was not even really born at Christmas. The Christian religion choose to celebrate Christmas at the time it did and incorporated the pagan tradition of celebrating the winter solstice. Even the practice of gift giving can be traced back to the pagan tradition of giving solstice gifts. So in truth why did the pagans have to assimilate to Christan beliefs, when the Christians took the holiday and traditions from the pagans and decided to call it Christ's birthday?
2007-02-04 21:13:23 · answer #2 · answered by djbest1973 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Becaue people started getting presents. And after all, this is a material world.
While I am not religious at all, (and in fact and atheist) I have to say what an *** Skeff is. Obviously, you don't know anything about religion or you'd know that most of it is based on faith. Maybe you should stop wanting everyone to think like you, and let them decide for themselves what is real.
Tolerance and understanding are amazing things, skeff. Kinda like civil liberties.
Its only when people use religion to justify murder and/or war that disgust should enter.
i.e. George Bush
2007-02-04 21:11:20 · answer #3 · answered by maatawry 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because not everyone is religous. I am not and for my Xmas is a time to see family and friends and to catch up and spend time together. For me it has nothing to do with Jesus or God. Xmas has a different meaning for everyone, as not everyone in the world is Catholic or Christian.
And shouldn't Jesus have to do with Hanukkah since he was Jewish????
2007-02-04 22:03:33 · answer #4 · answered by mel_mr 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I've always heard that's not really his birthday or doesn't even really have anything to do with him.It's Pagan.
Personally though,I normally type Xmas,cause well,I'm a very lazy person.
2007-02-04 21:09:40 · answer #5 · answered by rebel_gurl002 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's no proof it's his birthday. It's all made up to compete with pagan celebrations.
2007-02-04 21:03:51 · answer #6 · answered by Skeff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because peolpe just forget the true meaing of christmas
2007-02-04 21:09:13 · answer #7 · answered by jxbrown3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has become commercialized and its meaning has been lost in the decorations, santa, presents...etc.
2007-02-04 21:41:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because these god damned liberals are trying to take over our Holiday.
2007-02-04 21:07:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋