Having read a question hear about christmas becoming commercialised -, it made me think. The Hindus have their special events in which they buy presents for each other, the muslims have theirs and buy presents for each other, jews also have their day and buy presents for each other.
I think what makes christmas less special is the festive music leading up to the day... you have so much singing, and hype and when the day arrives - well its a very quiet day - no cars on the road etc and the time just flies by.
It is commercialised i admit but do people actually know what they are celebrating? why do some people have christmas in November and others in January?
Isnt it funny how atheists also celebrate christmas and with the christian tradition lol. They come up with their theories etc and then go ahead and celebrate christmas in a different way lol. Is this not picking things you like and doing them? Is this not double standards? and yet you condemn christians like mad
2007-11-17 09:01:25 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All "Christmas traditions" were originally stolen from Pagan festivities. Trees, presents, mistletoe, decorating homes, Yule logs, stockings, even the day it is celebrated on...everything.
2007-11-17 09:05:22 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
its a bit like easter is really a celebration of spring returning, ask most kids what its about and they say chocolate eggs not Christ's resurrection.
The same with Christmas, kids will say presents. Even Dickens's A Christmas Carol is about Scrooge not being generous. It's been commercialised for well over a century now.
I certainly don't condemn it and I think that Christian rites and traditions add alot of colour to it.
2007-11-17 20:31:09 · answer #2 · answered by numbnuts222 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is a collection of the midwinter festival and other customs from around Europe and the communist block. It has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity at all other than the fact that Christians try to hijack it!!
Check your facts - if Jesus was born it was not in December or even January - go find your own dates and festivities and leave the real world alone.
What respect you must have for god's son that you celebrate on a pagan festival date and ignore his birthday completely!!!
Oh and - do you now begin to understand why people think that Christians are unintelligent and ignorant?
2007-11-17 17:39:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, for starters, I am a Christian, but I do not have anything at all to do with Christmas. No cards, no tree, no presents ... Jesus was much more likely to have been born on the Day of Atonement.
I have atheist friends who keep Christmas and when I ask them why, they don't know.
2007-11-17 17:23:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think many atheists criticize Christians for the rituals they have, they criticize the foundation of their belief system. Those are two completely different things.
Christmas began as a pagan holiday, so I don't think it's any weirder for atheists to celebrate it than Christians. Just because you don't believe in God doesn't mean you don't like singing, giving presents, sitting quietly, eating good food, spending time with family, etc.
2007-11-17 17:07:53 · answer #5 · answered by jacob decibel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well since Christians seem to have no difficulty at all celebrating Christ's birthday on some randomly selected date why would atheists feel any angst about joining in and having there own party since the date was chosen at random and as such has no meaning either religiously or astronomically ?
2007-11-17 17:23:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No-one believes in evolution like a creationist, and no-one believes in the Christian God like an atheist. Atheists, many Muslims and Hindus love Christmas because they love a 'Christmas Christian', and can pretend that they are the real ones, whom they fear.
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2007-11-17 19:30:41 · answer #7 · answered by miller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I am a Christian and I don't believe that Thanksgiving Day is a proper holiday, yet I am not going to go to work and I am probably going to eat some pie.
Double standards? Sure. But what can I do about it? The pie is there, so I'm gonna eat it.
2007-11-17 17:05:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
i thought most atheists on here were all for Darwin's theory of evolution. but they still celebrate Christmas, which is still hypocrisy, they are using the pagans as a way of justification, but pagans are religious just the same but in a different way. yes? no?
atheists are full of sh!t. I'm not anything, I'm open to a lot but i hate hypocrisy and contradiction. it shows folk up for what they are. bullsh!tters and non the wiser about anything. just like i know nothing for fact.
2007-11-17 17:12:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the tradition of decorating a tree is a pagan ritual that celebrates yule time.In Muslim countries Christmas usually coincides with end of Ramadan ,I think is late October.Christianity can be very versatile.
2007-11-17 17:16:28 · answer #10 · answered by mach 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋