Christmas isn't about presents and being with your family, is it? Not really. Most of you make up your own reasons just to have parties and entertainment.
2007-10-04 01:22:47 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
I don't find your answer offensive. I find it pathetic, hahaha. Arrogant snob? Because I know - and I'm not even a Christian - exactly how Christmas should be celebrated?? You party for the fun of it. You don't sit and understand or learn your religion. Get a life you sad loser.
2007-10-04 01:31:30 · update #1
No, it's not my business, I don't particularly care. I just find it funny how most Christians celebrate on a date that means nothing to them in terms of their religion. You're all corrupted dumbasses. Christmas isn't even 25th December.
2007-10-04 01:32:59 · update #2
My mother and her family are Christians. I've been raised among Christians. I know the religion. So hush.
2007-10-04 10:35:29 · update #3
We do not even live right far more on the matter of celebrating Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-10-04 01:28:04 · answer #1 · answered by mllttsmn2 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, I'm a Christian, and I'm fully aware of the origins of Dec. 25 as the date, and where things like the tree, presents, yule log, mistletoe, etc. come from. We celebrate Christmas by doing random acts of kindness throughout our neighborhood, and by attending Mass ("Christ's Mass" - that's where the very word "Christmas" originally comes from BTW). We haven't put up a tree, or joined in the mad rush at the shopping malls for several years now. We do send a limited amount of cards with a religious theme to family and close friends. It's all pretty low key. We are not down so much on Christmas itself, just the secularization of it, and we've quietly decided to opt out of that part of it and make it more of a religous holiday, like we believe it's supposed to be.
2007-10-04 18:05:54 · answer #2 · answered by the phantom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's funny you try to hype up the "right way" to celebrate Christmas. Because the "right way" hasn't been celebrated in about 1700 years.
According to the Bible, is it impossible for Jesus to have been born in December.
It’s easy to see why Jesus impossibly could have been born on December 25th. Luke tells us that there were ‘shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night’ (2:8-12). That couldn't have been in the rainy, chilly winter season.
In those days, it was custom for shepherds to bring out their sheep in spring and return home at the first rainfall in October or November. “It is the rainy season; so we cannot stand outside”, a crowd of Jews tells the prophet Ezra in the Book of Ezra (10:13).
Interestingly, Christmas only became Jesus’ ‘birthday’ later on – in the 4th century AD.
In the first centuries after Jesus lived, most people believed that Jesus had been born on March 25th, the day of the spring equinox. Other churches celebrated Jesus’ birthday in January or May, or chose not to celebrate it at all.
On December 25th, our current Christmas, people celebrated a very different religious feast. December 25th is known as the Winter Solstice, an astronomically important day. To many ancient religions, it was a holy party day, signifying the rebirth of the sun.
That's why people in the Roman Empire celebrated a hotch-potch of feasts on December 25th, like the birthday of the Persian sun god Mithras and the rebirth of the Syrian sun god Elah Gabal. In Scandinavia, people celebrated Yule, a feast in honor of Odin.
That was until Christianity became the official state religion of the Roman Empire in the 4th century. Obviously, the Roman rulers couldn't tolerate the pagan feasts anymore. Turning December 25th into a Christian party seemed like the best way to do it.
And so they did.
In AD 354, bishop Liberins of Rome commanded Jesus’ birthday party to be celebrated on December 25th from now on. And forty years later, emperor Flavius Theodosius declared all pagan feasts that hadn’t been ‘Christianized’ yet illegal.
That’s how 400 years after Jesus died, December 25th suddenly became a Christian party!
Still, much of the content is still pagan. After all, Jesus wasn't hung in a Christmas tree, or something.
Rather, the Christmas tree reminds of ancient tree worship, the rich meals echo the wild eating and drinking parties from ancient, pagan times and scholars have pointed out that even Santa still has elements of Odin.
Modern Christmas is a secular holiday celebrating our wealth and abundance, that we are so wealthy we can drop what we are doing and buy gifts for each other. It has its origins in Christian mythology, but then again, the Christian holiday has its origins in pagan ritual, so the Christian's claim to originality is tenuous, at best.
2007-10-04 08:43:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Isn't it just wonderful that you know everything and are even the head of the Christmas Police. How's about you celebrating it your way, and I will mine. I think you come across as an arrogant snob, WAY too full of herself for her limited experience in the real world. Do yourself a real favor, why don't you, and remove this question. I find it as offensive as you probably find my answer.
2007-10-04 08:28:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You are wrong. Christmas is the 25th of December. It is not, however, the likely birthdate of Jesus. He was likely born in September, probably around the Feast of Trumpets, but that is another discussion.
No matter how one spends one's Christmas, it is NOW the time of celebration of the birth of Jesus - no matter what its original purpose was (like the worship of the sun god).
2007-10-04 09:07:38 · answer #5 · answered by Christmas Light Guy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
whats it any of your friggin business how another person celebrates a holiday,
christians have liberty through Christ
maybe you should get to know a real christian and you wouldnt make such an assanine comment like you did, don't be rude. Legalism is a pharasee thing, Jesus came to liberate.
2007-10-04 15:22:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Uhhhhhhh, Kendra, is there a rule book?
Fact is Christmas just recently (past 200 years or so) was celebrated.
The date was pirated from the Romans Saturnalia, a pagan celebration...Io! Saturnalia!
And is it any of your business how other people celebrate? Nope!
2007-10-04 08:29:58 · answer #7 · answered by Bob W 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
is there a right way? just depends on family traditions and the way YOU want to celebrate.
oh yeah, being uneducated and then criticizing others for their opinions is the classic case of being a dumb***
2007-10-04 08:36:45 · answer #8 · answered by Amy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why are you trying to ruin christmas for everybody? You suck donkey a s s
2007-10-04 16:57:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What do you define as the right way?
2007-10-04 08:30:41 · answer #10 · answered by applebeer 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋