why do atheists?

Question

celebrate christmas?

Answer 1

I don't celebrate Christmas.
The commercialism makes me sick to the stomach.
Before I retired I was forced not to be able to conduct my normal life on Christmas day because of yet another imposition of Christianity into my life.

Answer 2

it is an attempt to make a pagan holiday into a Christian one and what better than to celebrate a birthday. I am a little puzzled about dates because there was a calender change a couple of hundred years ago and I do not know and can not work out when Christmas (actually a German celebration imported to England by Prince Albert the husband of Queen Victoria) would have been on the original calender

Answer 3

Same reason I have a drink on st patricks day and a pancake on shrove tuesday, it's something I have always enjoyed with friends and family and it's fun!!!
Im not celebrating the birth of jesus at christmas, Im enjoying the traditions like the log fire the crackers with bad jokes the fabulously inappropriate gifts my sister always buys people, the game of balderdash and getting a bit tipsy with my brother arguing about star trek best episodes. You seriously expect me to take some moral stance and sit and ignore christmas, haha, Im here to enjoy life!
I dont think there is any religious traditions that partake in apart from the odd carol singer and perhaps some religious cards from older family members, I get tipsy and have a brilliant night every single year with not a single thought for the reasons behind the holiday.

Answer 4

Atheists don't celebrate Christmas. Gathering with friends and family, feasting, singing, decorating evergreens, and exchanging gifts were practiced long before Christians hijacked the Pagans' holidays and traditions.

You're aware that the Bible FORBIDS Christians from following heathen traditions like decorating trees, right? The better question is why do CHRISTIANS celebrate Christmas, since it is clearly NOT Biblical, and didn't even exist until years after Jesus was allegedly crucified.

Answer 5

Because it's really not the birthday of Jesus. No one knows when he was born. It's a day off from work where we can exchange gifts with loved ones and have a fun day. It used to be Saturnalia, but I don't celebrate that on December 25th either. It's just a wonderful family day. Nothing religious, no prayers, maybe Santa Claus and Snowmen for decorations. I like the heathen Christmas tree. Very cheerful. I even play Christmas music. Does that offend you? That's life.

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Answer 6

Because I get paid double-time to work on Christmas. If that isn't a cause to celebrate, I don't know what is. Besides, I like getting the loot.

(As others have said, it's a pagan holiday hijacked by the early Christians, anyway. So is Easter. Get over it)

Answer 7

I'm not an Atheist but a Pagan and I celebrate the Pagan festival Of Yule.
It's the ancient Pagan mid winter feast.

Answer 8

There is a long tradition of celebrating the winter solstice that goes back much farther than Christianity. The name "Christmas" is just what this particular society calls the celebration.

Answer 9

Now that my wife and I have out-lived all our relatives and there are no longer any young children to be disappointed, we simply don't celebrate Christmas anymore. Not much point to it, since we're both lifelong atheists.

Back when we did participate, it was solely for the benefit of the children in our extended family. It was never about religion.

Answer 10

Because originally it was a pagan holiday. And we can celebrate what we want. We have freedom that way. You know, Winter solstice, Winter coming to an end, spring on the way. Why do Christians celebrate Jesus birth on Dec. 25th when that's not even NEAR the date he was supposedly born?