How come so many people think of Christmas as food and presents and decorations?????????????
When are people going to celebrate the real meaning of Christmas which is the birthday of Jesus?????????????????
I mean it is o.k. to have presents and food and decorations, but remember who you are really doing it for.
Remember the meaning!
2007-09-17 05:11:40 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
First of all......I am not all about Jesus!!!!!
I believe in Jesus.I myself Celebrate just with family and friends and presents and decorations.I am not christian by no means, but sometimes I feel bad around Christmas time when I don't bring the subject up about it being Jesus birthday!
Also I don't think it is wrong for people to just have fun with shopping and gifts and food and family and presents....ect..
I am just being curious as to what others think about it!!!!Maybe I phrased the original question wrong or something...I don't know! From some of the answers I got, I must have phrased it wrong!!!!!
2007-09-17 09:48:42 · update #1
A lot of people are just culturally Christian, so they celebrate it as a holiday without any real meaning behind it. And that's fine for them. But it's sad when believer's let Jesus get pushed aside by too much activities and commercialization. It drives me crazy when there's some 'heart warming' special on TV and they say "Let's not forget the real meaning of Christmas - being with friends and family." It makes me want to scream "That's not the meaning!"
2007-09-17 16:23:30 · answer #1 · answered by conicat 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because people use to be family oriented and gifts were frugal so the meaning was there. People cared then, but now families are not as close because of having to work many jobs to make ends meet. Also retailers, who now must make quotas, bombard the airways with expensive gifts for kids saying that your kid NEEDS these things. The closest thing to the original idea of Christmas can still be seen on movies like The Bishop's Wife (the one with Carry Grant not the remake), Miracle on 34th street (Again the original) and It's a wonderful life. Due to all these years, people are more concerned with image and NOT hurting their Children's feelings, and forgetting what was real. For those who claim it is a pagan holiday: Early Christians had two separate dates for the birth of Christ. Since there was much bickering about it, the Church's higher ups decided to choose a date that would (like the name Catholic) be a universal date. They chose the 25th. Not because it was a pagan holiday (that day falls on the 21st and 22nd) but because it was around that date and was an easy draw if they were to begin pulling the pagans into their fold. They did similar to Easter and took all hollows eve and turned it into all souls day. The idea is similar to the idea that the vail between our world and the spirits are easy to commune with.
2016-05-17 05:18:48 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ain't you all aware that Christmas is no longer a christian holiday. that is why none believers celebrate it.
What do believers do differently? go to church Christmas morning or open presents? It is about the same we read to our kids about the Grinch or watch christmas vacation and you read about Jesus and the virgin marry.
either way It is a time that people can come together and eat and be a family, it promotes piece on earth, and being with family.
I may self like Thanksgiving the best. it is a time to share with family and friends and it is not corrupted with the presents and and shopping. It is just good times.
2007-09-17 05:25:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, and don't forget to reach back to it's pagan origins too!
The celebrations around the Solstice were extremely popular and widely-celebrated long before the birth of Christ. In fact, for the first few centuries, Christians tried very hard to get people to cease these celebrations, to no avail. Eventually they realized it wouldn't work, and decided since they couldn't beat them, they'd join them.
But I think this is okay, because the point of the celebrations is to take the darkest, coldest, hardest, dreariest time of year, and celebrate light, life, hope, joy, giving, caring, and togetherness.
2007-09-17 05:20:23 · answer #4 · answered by KC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The food presents and decorations all come from the pagan holiday of winter solstice. The only thing christian about Christmas is the name.
2007-09-17 05:21:57 · answer #5 · answered by pathlesspagan 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
to you, it's about Jesus. That's fine and well. But you are not everyone.
It is also an ancient pagan holiday of winter solstice, and it IS about family, food, celebration and gift-giving, and for many of us, it is the real reason for the season. And it was such a holiday long before your Jesus was born.
It is not our fault earlier Christians chose to place Jesus' birthday celebration onto our holiday and try to coopt it (at least they failed! yay!); keep in mind there is absolutely no evidence he was born in December (most scholars, Christian or otherwise, say spring or summer was much more likely).
2007-09-17 05:19:16 · answer #6 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is actually a celebration for a Saturnalia God. The Pagans have celebrated this for centuries. So actually this celebration has nothing to do with Jesus or God. All the commercialism associated with it is to be expected.
2007-09-17 05:21:04 · answer #7 · answered by Artscola 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
christmas is more about family yer it celebrates some majour religous times but id rather spend my time chatting to family and being happy...than stuck on my knees praying... get off the religous bug and see that people do still celebrate the birth of jesus but as time has gone on the way we celebrate has changed....
2007-09-17 05:36:15 · answer #8 · answered by cinderella 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The tradition of giving presents was started in Gemany, The original idea was to help the poor.
2007-09-17 05:18:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
check out Linus' speech in 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'
2007-09-17 09:31:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋