Wht is it that non-believers of Christ like to celebrate Christmas, but yet they don't believe in the REAL meaning of Christmas???
I guess they just want it both ways!!
Greedy huh???
2007-09-27 07:29:42 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ohhhhhhh, how I knew I was going to get some mean attitudes!!!hahahahahahaha!!
Some of you thought that I was christian, because I ask that question!!!!Guess What....I'm not!!
See how "Christians", get put down even when they have nothing to do with it!!!!
I am not a Christian, but I DO believe in God, and I believe that Christmas....December 25TH, is a day to celebrate His Birthday!
You see how Athiest love to put down every religion, but their own!!!!!!!!!!
But I do have to admit that I knew of no other holidays like the pagan, or whatever it is called......But I didn't steel anyones day away from them!
Hope all you athiest ppl, and non believers, and believers, and christians have a blessed day!!!!!!!!!
2007-09-27 08:19:00 · update #1
Christmas is a pagan holiday, you have adopted it from paganism.
I thought everybody knew that .
Here it is explained for you
http://culturalvision.net/html/merry_mithras.html
http://culturalvision.net/html/the_sun_s_birthday.html
2007-09-27 07:33:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 1⤋
This is so easy. Christmas existed before christianity. Let me explain. In ancient Rome, they thought Dec 25 was the winter soltice. It was their new year. They celebrated by giving gifts to each other. Other pagan religions did things like bring a tree in the house and decorate it. When christianity spread, they just changed the name of those holidays.
The bible indicates that Christ was born in the fall, not in the dead of winter, so it's not Christ's birthday. The bible says nothing about celebrating Christ's birthday, bringing a tree in the house, none of that.
Now that everyone has told you that christmas is actually a pagen holiday, are you going to add-detail explaining that you were wrong?
2007-09-27 07:52:47 · answer #2 · answered by kimmyisahotbabe 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The celebration of winter solstice has been a popular holiday long before christianity came along. Early Christians tried to wipe out this celebration but were unable to do so and so eventually "made up" the idea of Jesus' birthday (nowhere in the Bible is a birthdate for Jesus of Nazareth given).
So tell me then, why are Christians so greedy as to steal our holidays in such a fashion?
By the way, in the southern hemisphere, the celebration of the winter solstice is June 24, which Christians there have turned into "St. John the Baptist" birthday. Greedy Christians!
2007-09-27 07:36:05 · answer #3 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
no actually the real meaning of the december holiday is much much older than christ, but the christians pinched it to try and convert the pagans. Well it didn't work ........ we're still here!
Yule celebrations at the winter solstice predate the conversion to Christianity. It was, in pre-conversion times, the name of a feast celebrated by sacrifice on mid-winter night of January 12th according to the Norwegian historian Olav Bø. Though there are numerous references to Yule in the Icelandic sagas, there are few accounts of how Yule was actually celebrated, beyond the fact that it was a time for feasting. According to Adam of Bremen, the Swedish kings sacrificed male slaves every ninth year during the Yule sacrifices at the Temple at Uppsala. 'Yule-Joy', with dancing, continued through the Middle Ages in Iceland, but was frowned upon when the Reformation arrived. The custom of ritually slaughtering a boar on Yule survives in the modern tradition of the Christmas ham and the Boar's Head Carol.
"On Yule Eve, the best boar in the herd was brought into the hall where the assembled company laid their hands upon the animal and made their unbreakable oaths. Heard by the boar, these oaths were thought to go straight to the ears of Freyr himself.Once the oaths had been sworn, the boar was sacrificed in the name of Freyr and the feast of boar flesh began. The most commonly recognised remnants of the sacred boar traditions once common at Yule has to be the serving of the boar's head at later Christmas feasts".
2007-09-27 07:34:17 · answer #4 · answered by Diane 4 · 8⤊ 2⤋
Jesus was not born on December 25th okay.
You got your celebrations from a combination of various Eastern and European pagans celebrating the winter solstice, the birth of the Sun God and the birth of Mithras.
Evergreen trees are a pagan symbol of life and the God.
In cold climates, it was a time to break into the winter food stores and make a feast to pass the long nights.
Since most were snowed in, they made crafts etc and gave them as gifts around this time as well.
Even though it was never about Christ to begin with, you are more than welcome to share the Yule festivities with us in your own way. If you want to believe it is about Christ, you are free to celebrate it that way and enjoy it with your friends and family.
I celebrate Yule with my family and of course I take advantage of all the fantastic sales available. I also gather with the Christian branch of my family and we have a merry old time as well.
Why should that be so offensive to you?
2007-09-27 07:34:21 · answer #5 · answered by pixie_pagan 4 · 9⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-05 11:08:04 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Non-believers of Christ? Does that mean Jews, too? We don't believe Christ was the Messiah and we don't celebrate Christmas. We celebrate Hannukah which happens to sometimes coincide with the Christmas holiday, but Hannukah as nothing to do with Christmas.
2007-09-27 07:43:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm Atheist but don't celebrate December 25th as the birth of any savior since that's all hogwash. I enjoy the music...even though it is mostly religious, it's just nice to listen to. I also enjoy the decorated houses. I enjoy giving and receiving presents. Only thing I don't like is the cold weather in my part of the world. Maybe we could move this pagan festival to July????
2007-09-27 07:39:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why are you lumping all non-believers of Christ and God into one category - greed? I've been an atheist my entire life and to be completely honest, I've never celebrated Christmas. I don't even celebrate my birthday, to put it plainly.
I don't lump believers into a category, please, don't lump my group into a category, because everyone's different.
Although, to defend people who do celebrate Christmas, maybe they don't celebrate Christmas just to receive gifts - like you're assuming. You're assuming they celebrate it just to "get stuff"; what about the people who celebrate it to give, rather then receive? Are they being just as greedy as the group you lumped others into?
Does celebrating a holiday, even if you don't believe, simply to give to those who do, make you greedy?
2007-09-27 07:39:53 · answer #9 · answered by Alley S. 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just because someone believes something different from you gives you no right to attack them or assume them "greedy" that's as ignorant as some of the Atheist "Question" I have seen posted here...Mind your own business.... Just because they do not believe does not mean that they cannot enjoy the specialness of Christmas.. I think perhaps you need to read your bible a little more and see if perhaps you cant understand a little more of what Jesus is trying to say... Jesus states you will know a tree by his fruit....what fruit are you producing by posts comments like this? Ask yourself that.
2007-09-27 07:38:00 · answer #10 · answered by Petra 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Christmas actually has a Pagan background. If you do not believe that then look it up and find out, it is not just the day of Christ birth as those of theJudeo-Christian faith say.
Blessed Be.
2007-09-27 07:35:18 · answer #11 · answered by Zero Cool 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋