Do you also celebrate your birthday?
2007-05-23 06:59:07 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not very bright, are you? Ha, ha.
2007-05-23 07:02:01 · answer #1 · answered by Fred 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate my birthday, halloween ( i like to get drunk and bark at the moon), Christmas (family tradition), Easter (see christmas), and every other holiday I get paid to take off.
Christmas and Easter are really just family get togethers as opposed to Religious holidays for my family.
Even then, what's your point? Christmas, the way it's currently celebrated, is basically a pagan holiday.
So, every year, when you put up your Christmas tree, think about how you're indirectly worshipping someone else's God(s)...That's Commandment #1 right?
Same with easter...the "Easter Bunny" is also part of Pagan tradition. Although, I don't think theirs crapped out chocolate eggs on your front yard.
When I celebrate those holidays, I celebrate being with my family, which I think is more important than celebrating some crusty, old, bastardized pagan holiday and thinking that it's what the jesus wants.
2007-05-23 07:17:28 · answer #2 · answered by pastor of muppets 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I haven't celebrated my birthday in many years.. I have chosen to have anniversaries of my 29th birthday so I can stay 29 forever..
In January I celebrated the 8th Anniversary of my 29Th Birthday...
I celebrate Christmas.. I celebrate it not as a religious day but as a day to be with my family and exchange gifts of love and caring.
Halloween.. My Favorite holiday... I just love getting dressed up and handing out tons of candy..
The 4th of July.. A celebration of freedom from the oppression, freedom to choose, freedom of religion, FREEDOM..
New Year's because each new year is a chance to gain a fresh start ... I do not make New Years resolutions but I take the time to reflect on the year past.. How much the kids have grown, important happenings of the year (wedding, graduations, births deaths in our family) New Year's Eve is also my fathers birthday so we celebrate both at the same time.. (He missed being the New Years Baby the year he was born by 7 minutes born at 11:53pm 12/31)..
I celebrate Easter not as a religious day but as a day to mark spring.... We hunt eggs, enjoy the company of family and friends and eat..
Thanksgiving.. the celebration of a successful harvest..
Different people mark the different holidays in different ways.. A Holiday may have a religious connotation to one person and have no religious connotation to another.. For me Holidays are a time to spend with family and freinds celebrating being together and enjoying the day no matter what the holiday started out as for me that's what it has become...
2007-05-23 07:18:01 · answer #3 · answered by Diane (PFLAG) 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is there really this much ignorance here at the R&S forum? Wow. Lol.
I'm sure many Atheists celebrate their birthdays. I'm sure many Atheists celebrate conventional holidays, just simply do not believe some of the religious stories behind them.
Christmas was originally a Christian-theme holiday, but it's evolved over the years to become some sort of toy for commerce and business to sell presents with. So it doesn't seem to have as much religious implications as it used to have.
2007-05-23 07:03:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was Atheist for 27 yrs ( out of 29). We celebrated all the holidays when I was growing up.
I guess my parents were doing it so that we have a normal kid life, because beyond the religious meaning, kid wants to have fun when their friends are having fun and wants gift also when their friends are receiving gifts., we knew the religious meaning of those celebrations we did not care at all as long as we had fun.
I now believe in God but I appreciate the fact that my parents the strongest Atheists you'll find till today didn't mind celebrating just to make us happy.
2007-05-23 07:08:12 · answer #5 · answered by pharmD(2b) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course, I celebrate Christmas, for instance. 'Tis the season to be jolly, and all that. I just don't bring Jesus into it. What do you mean, I'm not going to buy Christmas presents for my nephews? Yeah, that'll work...
And I've found that you tend to celebrate your birthday less and less as you grow older...
Several holidays that I celebrate are old pagan holidays that have since been "Christianized", like the old "Mid Winter's Night" that was transformed into Christmas as we Scandinavians were converted from Asatru. We also celebrate Midsummer, i.e. the summer solstice. I also have the day off on Ascension for some reason.
2007-05-23 07:15:13 · answer #6 · answered by ThePeter 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate no particular days,not even my birthday. When opportunity comes,I'll hold a big dinner or get a loved one a gift because I want to then,I don't like being bound by a particular day,but I don't mind celebrating ANY day with my loved ones. A celebration should come from the heart,not the calendar
2007-05-23 07:05:04 · answer #7 · answered by nobodinoze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate the standard holidays, including Christmas. For my family it's a time to bring everyone together, buy each other gifts, etc. I understand the origins of religious holidays because it's good to be an informed person. I respect the religious part of the tradition but I don't believe in God so I don't participate in that part.
I don't celebrate my birthday but that's just because I'm an oddball. :)
2007-05-23 07:03:17 · answer #8 · answered by rbanzai 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I dont celebrate religious holidays, rather the commercialized versions. They are just a reason to gather with family and friends and enjoy each other. Just because it is so accepted and celebrated, I feel that it makes people around me happy so I encourage happiness. I love presents. I also love my birthday even though I am 30.
2007-05-23 07:04:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
All the usuals. I just don't celebrate them in a religious manner. Christianity may be a lie, but kids still have fun looking for Easter eggs.
Anyway, it's notorious that all the "Christian" holidays are merely reformed pagan feasts. Most atheists can probably appreciate the irony, if nothing else.
BTW yeah, I celebrate my birthday, usually by paying homage to Dionysus.
2007-05-23 07:04:11 · answer #10 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President's Day, Independence Day, Veteran's Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, because those are the days I have off from work (and so does most everyone else, so it makes it real nice and convenient to get together).
I don't celebrate my birthday, but maybe I'll go out with some friends for drinks or something.
2007-05-23 07:03:53 · answer #11 · answered by 006 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋