What alternative traditions do you have for the December Holidays?

Question

I have been developing my own little non-christian traditions, primarily with pantheism themes in mind.

How do you celebrate and what traditions have you chosen?

I would be happy to elaborate, perhaps privately.

Answer 1

Naked?
and the traditions -oops celebrations --are definately not Christianity-rooted

Answer 2

Festivus:
is an annual holiday invented by Reader's Digest writer and editor Dan O'Keefe.[1] It was introduced to popular culture by O'Keefe's son Daniel, a scriptwriter for the TV show Seinfeld, on December 18, 1997, in the episode "The Strike".[2] (Season 9, Episode 10) The holiday is celebrated each year on December 23, but many people celebrate it at other times, often to avoid the Christmas rush.[2] It includes novel practices such as the "Airing of Grievances", in which each person tells everyone else all the ways they've disappointed him/her over the past year, and after a Festivus dinner, the "Feats of Strength" are performed, involving wrestling the head of the household to the floor, thereby pinning him or her.

Many people, influenced or inspired by Seinfeld, now celebrate the holiday, in varying degrees of seriousness; some carefully following rules from the TV show or books, others humorously inventing their own versions.

Answer 3

I basically try to let it go by without as much fanfare as possible. Since I'm not the child with the grandchildren, my parents do not come to my place for the holidays and I don't go to my brother's house because I don't need hours on end of religious lectures of why my lifestyle is wrong. My husband will decorate our house and we will exchange a few small gifts but that is usually it.

Answer 4

Are there any Christian holiday traditions that actually come from Christianity and weren't stolen from some other tradition?

Other than attending midnight Mass, I'm having a hard time thinking of any specifically Christian traditions.

Answer 5

I celebrate Christ's birth by spending time with my family and reading His word. I guess you might consider me non-christian, given I am not hurling burning trash at the doors of homosexuals! Actually, my next door neighbors were lesbian. That could have created some interesting violence, and I'm sure CNN would have sought me out to further progress the stereotyping of Christians, but hey, I'm ahead of the curve!

Answer 6

I concentrate on family and keep the greens in the house like the early pagans did. Since mother is Catholic, I celebrate Christmas with her and Yule alone.

Answer 7

How bout what we are commanded to observe as written?

1Cr 5:8 Therefore LET US KEEP THE FEAST!!!, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

Exd 12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to Yahweh throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance FOR EVER.

Leviticus 23:2,4,44--
2 Speak to the children of Yisrayl (those who rule as Yahweh rules), and say to them; Concerning THE FEASTS OF YAHWEH, which you shall proclaim to be HOLY CONVOCATIONS; THESE ARE MY FEAST: (not thanksgiving or christmas)

4 THESE ARE THE FEASTS OF YAHWEH, HIS HOLY CONVOCATIONS, which you shall proclaim in their seasons:

Answer 8

really, can you elaborate?

well my family breaks opatquet (sp?) it's a polish thing.

it's like the same material as the communion "wafer" but it has a picture on it, usually a cross or the nativity scene

it's actually really nice (the tradition).

you go to someone, break of three pieces of their portion and wish them three things for the next year (i hope you have good health, good forture, etc.)

then they do the same for you.



lost.eu/21618

Answer 9

ski trip

backpacking in the freezing cold (that's fun)

sitting in my house with a cup of tea, hanging with my dogs and reading a good book