If that is true it doesn't make sense since I am always reading the majority of population are Christians and a small ratio of people are atheist. So is it a matter of who complains the loudest? If it is not athesit who is behind the concept?
2007-11-20 12:51:20 · 12 answers · asked by TTC 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's a bit upsetting, but it's becoming more and more wide spread as more and more people convert to atheism. America is no longer a Christian nation, rather a "melting pot" and you must be considerate of the other people around you.
2007-11-20 12:56:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I honestly don't know but I worked retail and couldn't believe in the past 4 or 5 years that we were told not to wish people a Merry Christmas but to say Happy Holidays. Also, I noticed in those years another change took place. The stores wouldn't play Christian Christmas songs or they only played the melody to them with no words. I thought it was more so that they wouldn't offend the Muslims, Jews and Atheists but I don't think any of them got up and arms about it and protested it. They just wanted their sales.
2007-11-20 21:12:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If i choose for to have infants i visit enable them to have fun Christmas in a non religious context. we've a christmas parade and quite a number of christmas correct activities the place I stay as a thank you to no longer enable them to take part looks incorrect because i don't have a opposing faith. yet i visit teach them on the actuality that the nativity is purely a myth and yuletide grew to become right into a pagan holiday observed by making use of the christians.
2016-09-29 22:09:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly how would atheists "take Christ out of Christmas ?"
Are they trying to enact laws making it illegal to celebrate Christmas ? Are they kicking in people's doors and confiscating nativity scenes ?
Jehovah Witness's don't believe in celebrating Christmas even tho' they consider themselves Christians. And there are many other religions such as Judaism among others, that believe in God, but not Jesus, so they don't personally celebrate Christmas as a religious day. So why are you only asking atheists ?
Me, I'll celebrate the Winter Solstice this year, but you are free to celebrate Christmas & Jesus.
Have a Merry Christmas !
2007-11-20 13:09:39 · answer #4 · answered by queenthesbian 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Christmas is a Pagan holiday. All Christians did was change the name of the divine male birth to Jesus.
2. Maybe you could try to include OTHER RELIGIONS into the holiday season. there's such a thing as other religions, ya know.
3. Christ never said Christians should celebrate his birth anyway...
2007-11-20 12:58:02 · answer #5 · answered by mental1018 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Out to get the athests I see? Really, I don't believe in Christmas, but I have no intention of stopping other people from celebrating it. I think other athesits would agree.
We don't care what you (Christians) believe, so long as you don't try to change us.
2007-11-20 12:56:03 · answer #6 · answered by <3 cats 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Pfft. Of course atheists have nothing to do with anything like that.
Don't believe everything they say on Fox News. I'm an atheist: I call Christmas "Christmas", and it doesn't bother me at all. I like hearing "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing".
When some company puts up "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas", it's to avoid offending believers. It has nothing whatsoever to do with atheism.
2007-11-20 12:57:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
That's an interesting thought...since December 25th was never celebrated by Christians in Bible times, and Jesus never asked his followers to celebrate it, since he was not even born at that time, and since Christians in those days didn't celebrate birthdays. They considered it a pagan custom. The tree, gifts, carols, etc. all are practices adopted by Christendom from other, very NON Christian forms of worship.
I prefer to give and receive gifts at other times and not mix one form of worship with another.
2007-11-20 13:16:38 · answer #8 · answered by Janamidala 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm the one going around telling the stores to advertise so well and guilt parents into spending hundreds of dollars on their kids? I'm the one who makes you all not mention your christ once during the season and I convince your child that santa is the real reason of the season?
WHAT??
2007-11-20 12:56:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who knows - and yes indeed, the squeakiest wheel does get the grease.
I could care less what you call it. I call it Giftmas, because face it, there's no christ in it for most people, just greedy demands for gifts.
2007-11-20 12:59:49 · answer #10 · answered by Cheese Fairy - Mummified 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋