Why don't the Jews and Muslims celebrate Christmas?

Question

Well, I know maybe some or a few do, but the majority of them don't.

Also, isn't Christmas a secular/commercial holiday (as people say it is)? Like it isn't religious (not celebrating Jesus' birthday), which means anybody can celebrate it.

So, Muslims and Jews, what are your reasons for NOT celebrating Christmas?

Thank you :)

Answer 1

Christmas is a Christian holiday despite its massive commercialization. It celebrates the birth of Christ who Christians recognize as the son of God. Muslims and Jews do not believe Jesus was anything more than a man like anyone else so they do not celebrate his birth as anything special. Asking why Muslims and Jews don't celebrate Christmas is like asking why Christians don't celebrate Yom Kippur or Ramadan.

Answer 2

It was a religious holiday. It has become a secular/ commercial holiday. No other single-day holiday, of any religion, has it's preperations beginning at least 6 weeks before the day. And it begins with the commercials, the xmas decorations in the shops, and those ******* annoying xmas carols, in November.
Out of dozens of people I celebrate xmas with, I know of only two that actually do anything religious with regards to it. They go to church for the one time during the year for midnight mass.
The rest just give gifts, eat food, get drunk and have fun. If it wasn't for that bit, I really don't think anyone would bother.
Though I'm not Jewish or Muslim, I think they don't follow it because to do so would give credit to a religion other than thier own. For the same reasons that xtians don't celebrate jewish or muslim holidays.

Answer 3

I do have fun christmas and sure Muslims have faith in Jesus yet not the trinity or that Jesus is God. maximum Muslims do not have fun christmas because of the fact they don't have fun any vacations out component of what we've faith.

Answer 4

For one thing, Jesus wasn't born on "christmas", it's a whitewashed holdoevr from pagan yule festivities.
For two, we don't celebrate one prophet over another. Christmas IS "religious", the very word comes from "Christ's Mass".

Answer 5

Because it is a Xian holiday, no matter how commercialized it is, celebrating a foreign god that is not ours. For us to celebrate it would be blasphemy, in my opinion.

Peace

Answer 6

I'll apply the standard R&S atheistic argument to this: Non-action is the base state, taking an action and celebrating an event is the part that's exceptional, not non-celebration.

Answer 7

Christians namely Jehovah Witnesses do not celebrate Christmas because it is not a Jewish holiday. It comes from a mix of pagan religions and self worship from Babylon culture.

In the bible God does not tolerate false religion. Although holidays do not typically have the same meanings 2-6 thousand years ago, they still come from the root of false religion. Most of the root was around demonic activity, like voodoo and adultery.

Answer 8

And J.W's...
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Christmas is supposedly a celebration of Jesus' birth. dec. 25

Jesus was baptised when he was ' about' 30.
He preached for 3 1/2 years.
He died about March/ April . Nisan 14 of the jewish calendar.
Just go back 33 1/2 years and you have the month/s of Septermber/ October....but certainly NOT Dec. 25.
Also when Jesus was born, the shepherds still had their flocks in the fields. By December 25 in Jerusalem, or Bethlehem, All the stock would have been corralled in the lower floor of the houses to protect them from the very cold weather.
And Jesus NEVER mentioned about celebrating his birthday. In contrast, he DID ask us to remember his death.'
(1 Corinthians 11:24-25) and, after giving thanks, he broke it and said: “This means my body which is in YOUR behalf. Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup also, after he had the evening meal, saying: “This cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood. Keep doing this, as often as YOU drink it, in remembrance of me.”

(Luke 22:19) Also, he took a loaf, gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to them, saying: “This means my body which is to be given in YOUR behalf. Keep doing this in remembrance of me.”

Answer 9

why christians don't celebrate eid, diwali, gurdwara, holi, ???

to put simply because we are not christian and since it is considered to be the birth of "son of God",, which we muslims and jews don't believe and considered as a blasphemy....

hope thats answers

Answer 10

Well first of all the original reason to celebrate Xmas is the birth of Jesus so why would they celebrate it? I don't think jews would want to celebrate the birth of someone they killed.