2007-11-11 03:08:33 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
I celebrate christmas as christians pinched it from the pagan beliefs when they realised that people were still celebrating it. So you are being hypocritical by celebrating a pagan festival.
2007-11-11 03:14:22 · answer #1 · answered by Jay 4 · 7⤊ 1⤋
I don't suppose for a moment that they celebrate the birth of our saviour. Many of them, as demonstrated in other answers, try to justify their celebration by claiming "its not really Christian, its nicked from pagan religions", which is total nonsense - there is no historical evidence for any nicking from pagan religions at all, just idle speculation.
They should at least be honest and say, perhaps, " Yes we know it is a Christian festival but we have decided to go with the exploitative materialist flow and hijack it for a purely secular celebration".
2007-11-11 22:37:00 · answer #2 · answered by greenshootuk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christmas is the day of our saviour, but we don't study the bible extra hard. Christmas is a day to have joy and open presents and SANTA? Most people celebrate christmas and i don't see anything wrong with that.
2007-11-11 09:37:34 · answer #3 · answered by HoBo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
convinced, we do have a good time the yuletide. It turned right into a pagan vacation before it changed into something. it really is human nature to favor to have some lighting fixtures, delivers and feasting in the time of a chilly, dreary time of three hundred and sixty 5 days. through ways, some Christians who do not have a good time Christmas evaluate Christians who do to be the hypocrites because of the vacation's pagan roots.
2016-10-24 01:00:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas has become a lot more than just a time for you christians to celebrate jesus' birth, in fact that approach to it is becoming obsolete in my opinion; it has been hijacked by shops etc. to try and convince people to spend more money. I ignore this, and as I don't believe in god/jesus etc. neither do I engage in your kind of celebrations.
I see it as a time to see my family and my friends, many of which I don't see very often. Christmas is a holiday, and a lot of people use it to celebrate many different things. It's not just about jesus (in fact, as pointed out above, originally it wasn't), it's about having a good time.
2007-11-11 03:24:11 · answer #5 · answered by Doug 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, your question certainly leaves little doubt about how you feel about atheists.
I, for one, put up a tree, decorate it as I choose, send holiday (or seasonal) cards to friends to remind them that I think of them. With a few I exchange little gifts, have meals, make phone calls. And none of it is done to celebrate the christ child. I am very happy having a solstice to enjoy, and I do it on the 25th of December.
I hope you will enjoy your holiday in the way that suits YOU best as well.
2007-11-11 04:46:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate Christmas though I don't worship God. I celebrate it for time spent with family, for an excuse to bake delicious foods and to watch shows about a singing Snowman and talking Reindeer. If you want YOUR celebration of it to be about God, that's fine with me - so long as you don't try and make me celebrate it your way. Have a happy season, no matter what you're celebrating!
2007-11-11 04:16:41 · answer #7 · answered by Akuma 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Christians stole christmas from the non-believers.
Christmas is the 12 day cycle running across the winter salstis.
The end of the old year and the begining of the new.
Your jesus guy was born in spring according to your book. But then how many of you actually read what the book says. Very few judging from some of the postings on Q & A.
Please feel free to enjoy our pagan feast..!!!!
2007-11-11 03:23:31 · answer #8 · answered by Terry M 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Atheists celebrate Christmas just like most everyone else in this country does. It is also a federal and secular holiday. They just don't recognize or participate in the religious aspects. Christmas was based on Pagan Yule festivities after all.
2007-11-11 03:17:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
They are pretty much free to celebrate whatever, they might see it as a celebration of the giving spirit and time to be happy, which is fine, cause that is nothing bad.
It does however get to me when anyone celebrates it just for presents.
2007-11-11 03:31:10 · answer #10 · answered by nonoodles74 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋