Christmas is about Celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Why do people celebrate it if they don't even believe him.
2007-11-23 09:11:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
One of you said it's a free country and we can do what we want. If that's the case why can't I say Merry Christmas at work? Why can't people say Merry Christmas in the stores to me? This country may be better than most, but not completely free.
2007-11-23 09:50:16 · update #1
The celebration of Christmas is actually not even Biblically based and was taken from several other pagan holidays that occurred around the same time in the winter. Christ wasn't even born in December! He was born during warmer times, because the shepards were out with their flocks. When the Roman government decided to form the Roman Catholic church, people were slow to turn away from their pagan ways. There was a baby god, Saturnalia, whose birth was celebrated Dec 25, so this date was adopted as Christmas, to get people to at least be thinking about Christ, since they were celebrating on that day anyway. There was also the Winter Solstice and the Yule traditions, which were all rolled into Christmas. Few, if any of the Christmas traditions we celebrate came about because of Christ, they were actually adapted to pertain to Him so that people could keep some of their pagan traditions. Yes, we associate Christmas with Christ, now, but there was a pagan holiday on that date first. It doesn't take away (for me) from celebrating His birth, I'm still grateful for Him, but I just know why it was really brought about.
2007-11-23 09:23:27 · answer #1 · answered by bainaashanti 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is also very much a federal and secular holiday. Christians don't own that day and they never have. Bible scholars agree that Jesus wasn't even born in the winter, much less December.
It has nothing to do with commercialism, no matter how much people complain about it. Christmas has pagan roots, the same as Easter, Halloween and every other holiday. Every aspect of Christmas, even God being born on the Winter Solstice, is Pagan.
Christmas over the centuries has always been a time to get together with family and friends. If someone wanted to celebrate Jesus' birth, they had every right but it wasn't forced on anyone.
It's a free country so people can do whatever they want as long as it's not illegal. Why does it bother you what other people do in their own homes on their own time? Why not set your differences aside for just one day and let them be?
2007-11-23 09:38:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My nuclear family is Christian, but I am an atheist. I still celebrate Christmas with my family because it's sort of a family-togetherness thing, like just being together and nice to each other, and showing each other that we love and appreciate each other. Yes, that happens through materialism and stuff, but also through just being together and enjoying each other's company. Also, i feel like because Christmas is such an overwhelming season in our society, people don't want to feel "excluded" from the fun and festivities, so they make Christmas a holiday in which they just have fun and get together with their families and give gifts. Since Jesus supposedly preached love for everyone and stuff, I think he'd probably endorse this interpretation of Christmas, even if we don't necessarily believe in him.
2007-11-23 09:22:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because Christmas isn't about Jesus anymore. Be honest, most people wake up on Christmas and think about gifts, not Christ. At first, yes, that was the purpose. Soon people got greedy, and now they just don't care. Usually traditions, even the ones that are for a good cause, get corrupted. ^__^
2007-11-23 09:19:32 · answer #4 · answered by actresst22 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People have always celebrated the Mas (party) in Christmas but not the 'Christ'.
This is probably the reason they write 'Christmas' by cancelling out the Christ to chow which is more important: Xmas
2007-11-23 09:19:44 · answer #5 · answered by Ayo A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are atheists. but were both brought up by non atheists. and have children who are free to believe whatever they chose to believe, and they believe in the celebration of Christmas. Christmas has always been, to us, a time for celebrating, not Christ, but family, togetherness, and giving. Yes we even tell our children that we do not require a gift from them. Besides that I love to decorate the house with stars and glittery lights and a whole lot of color and the smell of pine. to me it is bringing winter inside without the cold.
2007-11-23 09:29:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have a right to celebrate the holiday too, if I want to.
And I will. Happily! Thank you very much!
2007-11-23 09:25:01 · answer #7 · answered by hlk_cupcake147 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's called commercialism!
And for those who CLAIM to believe in Jesus Christ, they are dishonoring him by participating in a pagan celebration that HE never commanded any of His followers to do.
2007-11-23 09:16:49 · answer #8 · answered by sugarbee 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
yeah right. Like you don't wear green on St. Patrick's day. Look at Thanks Giving. How many Natives have you seen on Thanks Giving? No one really believes that we are good with the Natives but we'll have turkey.
2007-11-23 09:17:00 · answer #9 · answered by Bobby K 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They think it is fun.
2007-11-23 09:19:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋