Do witches bemoan the commercialization of Christmas?

Answer 1

Not that I know. They, like most pagans, celebrate Yule, not Christmas....

Herf: All pagan cultures had a mid-winter festival to celebrate the coming of longer days and harvest season. Yes that was the Roman. There is also Solstice and Yule. Egyptians had Celebrations of Thoth and Bast type thing. Mithra's was the 25th of December so that's closer to what the Christians borrowed then Saturnalia

Answer 2

Well, I know Christians do. Witches, I think, would be more likely to bemoan the commercialization of Halloween (no offense intended), AKA Samhain.

--EDIT-- Wait a minute -- I think, but I could be confused, that the original timing of Christmas was right about the same time of the Feast of Saturnalia. I always thought that was a Roman festival, though.

Answer 3

European/British Isles traditional wiccans/witches/pagans tend to celebrate Yule, the Winter Solstice and not Christmas.

As a side note, Jews in America bemoan the fact that so many of us feel pressure to compete with the cheer and festivity of the Christmas season (it's a whole season now, not just a day!) by blowing Hanukkah celebrations out of proportion to their importance in the Jewish calendar. Yule, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are all eclipsed by Christmas-olatry.

At least the non-Christian kids aren't forced to sing Christmas carols in public schools any more.

(Witches need to take back Samhain and tell the Christians to shut up and pay attention to their own holidays instead of trying to purge the world of all the holidays of which they don't approve.)

Answer 4

LOL... each and every each and every now and then, i actually consider you, and this could be a variety of situations. i could use the observe "Christians" rather than "conservatives" however. do no longer blend the two up so categorically. Frankly, Walmart had their Christmas sh!t up earlier all the Halloween stuff have been moved out of ways this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. that's daunting, that's confusing and that's off-putting. i do no longer belittle agencies for working at making their final analysis, yet Christmas is so leap-the-gun pushed presently that the pervasiveness of the anticipation ruins the satisfaction interior the season in my estimation.

Answer 5

While witches don't usually observe Christmas, I don't like the commercialization of Christmas. It is possible to be a witch and believe in Christ. I'm just not a Christian. My beliefs do not fit into any religion except Wicca.
Blessed Be

Answer 6

I only bemoan it because I'm tired of what retail has done to the holidays. I mean they put out stuff for christmas earlier, it seems, each year. Heck to to decorate with is out before Halloween! That's my non-witchy thoughts on it.

My witchy thoughts are it's annoying to hear christmas music before Thanksgiving. I think that celebrating Yule is much nicer. It's not about how many gifts everyone gets.

Answer 7

No more than anyone else. I hate the fact that it turns people into lunatics with all the xmas crap in the stores before the end of October and the onslaught of "jingle bells" that keep ringing in my ears.

Answer 8

I don't.

I am quietly amused that the big hoopla usually centers around Pagan symbols and traditions, like decorated trees and "Sinterclaas".

Answer 9

I'm sure they wish that people would celebrate the original pagan roots to the holiday.

Answer 10

in my pagan household we celebrate both yule and christmas. yule is our "religious" one, and christmas is our gift giving one. the kids look forward to both. they love our family ritual at yule and they also love to get presents at christmas.

so no, it doesn't bother me that christmas is commercialized. thanks for asking!