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2007-11-01 12:42:53 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Easter, and Christmas are Christian/Catholic Holidays
Haunakah- Jewish
How can you explain that?
2007-11-01 12:47:54 · update #1
Any secular holidays. Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Columbus Day, etc ...
Think about it this way. These holidays have become so secularized that you can't even conduct normal business on them. Most of our families and friends are off around these times, so why not take advantage of that fact and celebrate with them?
And by the way, I don't celebrate any of the christian aspects of Christmas or Easter. For Christmas I decorate a tree and give gifts, and for Easter I dye eggs for my little cousins. All of these things are Pagan customs, not Christian ones -- and you guys don't mind if I steal your customs for one day, do you?
2007-11-01 12:46:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 8⤋
The holiday now called "Christmas" was co-opted by Christianity. People had been celebrating the time of the Winter Solstice (December 21) in various forms for thousands of years before Christians decided to make it their celebration of Christ's birth. Many so-called "Christmas symbols" are actually pagan.
Same goes for Easter - another co-opted celebration of the Spring Equinox.
So yeah, I celebrate the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. I also celebrate Independence Day, Cinco de Mayo and any other excuse for a good time!
2007-11-01 12:54:42 · answer #2 · answered by 222 Sexy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christmas is the only religious holiday I celebrate.
I'm a Capitalist, and Christmas is more of a capitalistic holiday nowadays than a Christian one. At least, the way I celebrate it.
Fourth of July and International Drunkeness day (st pats) are my other big holidays.
2007-11-02 03:30:15 · answer #3 · answered by Darkwolf 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I celebrate the same as everyone just for different reasons.
Thanksgiving= I'm thankful I have a great family who supports me. I'm thanking the people around me in life.
Christmas= Time for giving. I can't be a scrooge and not share the holiday spirit. GIVING
Easter= For the chocolate. The color of the chocolate is the same as the color of the cross. Spring,fertile, rabbits get it.
2007-11-01 12:54:02 · answer #4 · answered by ItsMeTrev 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Christmas was appropriated from the Pagan Saturnalia and Easter was also appropriated from the Pagan celebration in honor of Ishtar the Goddess of fertility, I celebrate Saturnalia and the festival of Ishtar.
2007-11-01 12:57:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
July 4th. Labor Day. Memorial Day. President's Day. Arbor Day. Columbus Day. Thanksgiving. New Year's Eve. Christmas. Halloween.
To name a few.
What holidays are religious? Thanksgiving, but not really. I can be thankful without being religious. Christmas is more of a secular commericalized holiday than anything (Santa, Stockings, Mistltoe, the Tree, the Presents and most of the songs have nothing to do with religion). And hell, even Easter has more secular components nowadays than religious ones (and it should be noted that Easter was original NOT a Christian holiday, nor was Christmas. In fact the name "Easter" is not of Christian origin).
2007-11-01 12:49:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋
THIS (emphasis only) atheist celebrates the fourth of July, Veterans Day and similar. No religious holidays.
2007-11-01 12:54:24 · answer #7 · answered by What? Me Worry? 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
New years, Valentines, Easter (in a non religious sense), 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas (in a non religious sense), and the smaller holidays like Mothers/Fathers Day, etc. Does that answer it?
Yes we do celebrate things...I thought it was Jehovah's Witnesses that don't do any of them.
Edit: How do we explain that? My family has always done Christmas, and just because we, my immediate family, don't believe doesn't mean it isn't still a family tradition for us. Santa and all that stuff make it perfectly possible.
And for the Jewish folks... it's more then a religion, it's an entire culture, so there *are* Jewish atheists, and no doubt they still join their family for those Holidays.
I mean would you really sit home alone, isolated from your family, just because you don't share the religious beliefs within the holiday when there is a lot more to it then just that.
2007-11-01 12:48:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 7⤋
Easter and Christmas hardly have much of a religious aspect nowadays, do they?
2007-11-01 12:50:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I tend to celebrate any holiday that I get off from work.
"Easter, and Christmas are Christian/Catholic Holidays
Haunakah- Jewish
How can you explain that?"
Well first of all Easter and Christmas are PAGAN holidays STOLEN by the christians. What does a pine tree and rabbit have to do with christianity?
I was raised christians. I still enjoy the holiday spirit.
I am an atheist, I live to experience and enjoy life.
2007-11-01 12:45:35 · answer #10 · answered by Dark-River 6 · 8⤊ 8⤋