If your answer is yes, apparently you don't know the true meaning of Christmas. It is to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The holiday was was even named after Him, Christ-mas.
2007-03-26 04:01:15 · 31 answers · asked by vyost22 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and did you know that first it was a pagan holiday and that jesus wasn't born on the 25th of December?
2007-03-26 04:04:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate Christmas and I am a non believer...but let me give you a little history lesson..and you can go do some research if you like to find out that I'm telling you the trust.
Christmas was originally a pagan holiday and has nothing to do with the birth of jesus. Jesus wasn't even born in December. The Church decided to accept this pagan holiday as their own to try and get some more converts for their religion.
So before you come in here and try and say what the true meaning of christmas is make sure you actually know what the true meaning is.
2007-03-26 04:03:33 · answer #2 · answered by photogrl262000 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate the season as Yule. My family celebrates Christmas. The two holidays share enough customs and traditions in common, that I can be comfortable with it. It doesn't bother me if they want Christmas instead of Yule, I am mature enough to enjoy my own beliefs without giving them a problem, and am not threatened by thiers, and they don't bother me about it. For that matter, if they celebrated something else, like Hanukah instead, I would continue to enjoy the celebration with them, because I am mature enough to be secure in my own beliefs, and they are secure in thiers and don't bother me, and would celebrate with them because they are my family, and because I am a Universalist. Christmas was a moveable feast in the beginning, and celebrated at any time of the year. It was decided to make it Dec 25th, after a few hundred years, it hasn't been that way since the beginning. It just happened to be assigned a date that was commonly used for varous Pagan holidays before that.
2007-03-26 04:16:33 · answer #3 · answered by beatlefan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I celebrate it but not for myself but for my children due to the factors that they have yet to be able to fully understand the religous choices they have. I am Agnostic my wife is wiccan but the grandparents are both Christian. The following or allowance of others views is what makes the world a good place. I may or may not agree with the holiday or the basis of it however it does not mean my children have to follow in my religous footsteps.
And Christmas is not just a Christian based religon just happens that Christians have the majority in the world when it comes to control over decisions.
2007-03-26 04:14:04 · answer #4 · answered by troy j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, sweetie I'm sure you're cute in person but displayed ignorance is TERRIBLY unattractive. You do realize that Christmas has almost nothing 2 do with Jesus, right? That's the irony of the whole thing. Atheists can celebrate Christmas without compromising their nongodly standards because it's really just the Catholic Church's renaming of a pagan holiday dedicated to their sun-god. Christmas nowadays is a commercial enterprise that generates billions of dollars in revenue for almost every industry. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Jesus was born on December 25, and he never commanded that his birthday be celebrated. So it seems to me that you don't know the true meaning of Christmas.
PS: Jesus was born in Bethlehem, wrapped in swaddling cloth, and laid in a manger the night he was born. When the astrologers visited him, they gave him gifts, as was customary to do for kings in those days. What does a fat white (or black) man traveling by a reindeer-pulled sleigh giving toys to every child on earth have to do with that???
2007-03-26 04:09:29 · answer #5 · answered by DwayneWayne 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Midwinter Celebrations pre-date Christianity by way of hundreds of years. The Pagan holiday journeys of yuletide and Saturnalia, Mithra's' Birthday (it rather is the place the action picture star got here from), and others have been mid-iciness fairs from fairly some areas of Europe (the Christmas tree replaced right into a German pagan custom) that have been observed by way of the Christians because of the fact not something they could do might make people end celebrating them. Jesus' birthday replaced into in April until eventually the 5th century (it rather is why the Shepherds have been in the fields, in iciness the sheep could have been in pens the place they could be fed from the iciness shops) while it replaced into moved to midwinter so as that the Church ought to declare that the Pagan holiday journeys had unquestionably been Christian all alongside. The did an identical factor with Oestara (in old English stated EAST-a-ra), the Spring Equinox, with it rather is candy rabbits and little ones looking adorned eggs. Did no one ever ask your self what those had to do with the Resurrection of Christ? Or, even why it rather is noted as Easter? there are various motives to rejoice mid-iciness (Christmas in case you ought to), cultures around the worldwide do it, that's why it replaced into banned by way of the Mayflower Puritans at their Plymouth Rock settlement, they considered it a occasion of "decadent Popist excesses". Given all that, how are you able to question any ones appropriate to rejoice this historic Pagan holiday?
2016-10-19 23:11:52 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Because of Santa.
Your statement here shows that YOU don't know the TRUE origins of Christmas, which is actually a pagan holiday that the Christians co-opted to make switching over to Christianity easier for the pagan - aka pretty much forcing it on them.
Christmas is now also a secular religion.
2007-03-26 04:13:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gosh, Jesus' birthday wasn't even in December, Peanut.
Other savior types have had the birthday of December 25.
I celebrate Christmas, it's about spending time with my family, enjoying each others' company.
That OK with you, or should we atheists not be allowed to enjoy things?
2007-03-26 04:08:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow... Christ-mas? I never made that connection before!
Heh heh... chuckle. Funny. Call it what you want, its not even his birthday. Its an old pagan festival, an excuse to eat, drink and be merry in the darkness and cold of winter. Why the christmas tree, the yule log, mistletoe, egg nog, stockings by the fire, Santa Claus? They don't even really have much of a winter in Bethlahem, do they? Just another example of religion taking credit for something they have no claim to.
2007-03-26 04:09:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christians took a Pagan holiday and made it in the a Christian holiday. Please don't think that December 25th is all about Jesus. It's not. I celebrate Christmas because it's a tradition, not to celebrate Jesus. Don't look too deep into Christianity's holidays or you're going to see how unoriginal they are. You might just quesiton your faith. Gasp!
2007-03-26 04:09:33 · answer #10 · answered by S K 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ever hear of Winter Solstice?
Pagans had it first.
Christmas was hijacked and put on an already existing holiday.
Do you know that Dec. 25 is a very famous ancient holiday stemming far before Jesus?
Jesus wasn't born on Dec. 25th, so why that day?
Do you think about that?
2007-03-26 04:05:10 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋