talk me through the days leading up to and including December 25. Not that I celebrate Christmas, I am just interested to learn what you do at that time of the year when most of the civilized world seems to be "celebrating". do you hang out with family? do you do anything special? or is just another day?
Thanks for your time in reading and answering my question.
2007-11-13 10:45:14 · 39 answers · asked by Gruntled Employee 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I enjoy the day off just like any other day off :)
2007-11-13 10:48:38 · answer #1 · answered by Sandy ♥ - semi retired :) 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A christian will have a Christmas with meaning. They will do the typical thing that everyone else is doing, like presents, family, and food. The difference is that despite of all that they are celebrating the birth of Christ. Doesn't matter that he wasn't born in December or that some things about Christmas are borrowed from pagans. It is just that on December the 25th every christian in the world knows that on that day all Christians will be celebrating the birth of Christ.
Atheist on the other hand do the normal thing like presents, family, and food but Christmas is more of an opportunity to do these things. They are more than welcome to take advantage of and enjoy the festivities.
2007-11-13 11:00:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greetings. We celebrate Yule as heathens. On Christmas Day, since that isn't the major holiday for us, we go to a nearby National Park that is absolutely astounding in the winter.
See if there's a movie house open where you are, rent movies and have a marathon. Have friends over that aren't going home. Have a drink and celebrate the day off.
2007-11-13 10:57:52 · answer #3 · answered by Aravah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an Athiest and most of my family is non religious, for us it has become a day of presents, visit family, parties, Most of the things associated with Christmas, except no celebration except maybe a family get together during the time off.
2007-11-13 10:57:00 · answer #4 · answered by blood_raven_22 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is the Ultimate celebration of Capitalism, of course I celebrate it. Where is the religious content now in Christmas, go to a shop and look at the decorations, you'll be hard pressed to find a nativity scene or anything that has anything to do with jesus. It's all santa, snowmen, reindeer, tinsel.
Bless Coca-Cola for Christmas!
2007-11-15 23:35:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I buy a tree after Thanksgiving and I decorate it with the fam. I put a bunch of beautifully wrapped gifts under it and then on Christmas morning we open them. There are no stable scenes or angels in my decor. No Santa. We don't celebrate Jesus, just the fact that we all have off from work and school and are a family and love each other.
2007-11-13 10:59:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, my great-grandparents were/are religious=believe in god. but then when my gandfather would go to church they would continue asking for more and more money.. so he stepped out of the church.. so christians look at us funny (i grew up in germany by the way) because we celebrate christmas. We treat it as more of a ... day of giving presents to the ones we love.
in Germany the whole family sits together at night.. around 7-9 and gives each other presents, unlike the U.S in the morning.
we also sit down on every 1, 2, 3 and 4th of advent and have coffee and cake.
it has become more of a tradition.
:)
2007-11-13 12:50:56 · answer #7 · answered by Ann(ie) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i used to live overseas, where it was a day that was all but missed by the Buddhists that surrounded me (in Hong Kong and Thailand), although they did latch on to some of the commercial aspects.
I haven't been back to the states (to live) in nearly a decade, so hard to say. If like past years, I do the needful, but it has no religious significance. I never much cared for Saturn or the pagan tradition of a decorated tree, anyway.
2007-11-13 10:55:12 · answer #8 · answered by Brendan G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate too, it's just that my celebration has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus. I usually have Christmas lunch with my family and some close friends, decorate a tree, share presents, etc. None of which actually has anything to do with the religious significance of Christmas.
2007-11-13 10:51:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am like the people of Thailand or Japan: I celebrate holidays, but I don't believe in their religious counterparts.
I enjoy to decorate trees, spend time with family, drink eggnog, and carve a turkey. No religion has a monopoly on celebration. I just avoid explicitly religious connotations, such as the mangers or prayers.
2007-11-13 10:52:46 · answer #10 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know about atheists, but I really don't do anything special during the run-up to Christmas (I'm Jewish), except maybe doing my level best to avoid the incredibly repetitious and ubiquitous Christmas music!!
Edit: Got to agree with War Games up there - I do enjoy the eggnog, with appropriate amounts of Black Jack included ;-)
As for Christmas day - they do same thing we Jews do at Christmas; go out for Chinese and a movie ;-)
Shalom!
2007-11-13 10:52:39 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋