Is it against your religion to celebrate the birth of your savior?

Question

Explain to me why it is against your religion to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ? And why would you think this is detrimental towards spreading his message to Muslims and Jews

Answer 1

Who are you addressing this to? Apparently Christians, since other religions do not have a savior as such. So why would anyone else but Christians celebrate his birth? What do you do on Ghengis Khan's birthday? He was a hero to his people. What do you do on the Prophet's birthday? King David's birthday? No?
OK, so Christians do celebrate the birth of Christ - but not on his birthday. The Jewish calendar is lunar and a fixed date was chosen in a time of year that did not relate to when the census was done - the time Jesus was born according to the Bible itself. No, a prince of the Catholic Church picked this date in order to use a timeframe where people where already celebrating. You see in order to convert people, you do need to leave their secular celebrations alone. So Winter Solstice becomes Christmas and Vernal Equinox becomes Easter and Summer Solstice celebrations were already not observed so All Saints Day tried to overwrite Autumnal Equinox, but failed. So we already have plenty of Atheists celebrating Christmas, if we get enough, we can be sure the next major religion to come along will still include decorated trees and lights on the rooftop! Hooray! And include communion, because although it was a left-over from pre-Christian Bacchian celebrations, I do still love wine! (Why would Christ have wine for blood? It was a much older cyclical agricultural ritual that used to originally include human sacrifice and celebrated the yearly return of the god of the vine!)

Answer 2

Although Christmas is not the actual birth date of Christ, it is the day that we usually celebrate it. Some faiths and denominations do not celebrate any birthdays. I have never understood why, but that is their preference. I personally love to celebrate Christ on more than just December 25. I don't believe either decision would be detrimental towards spreading the message of Christ to Muslims or to Jews because each person whether Gentile Muslim, Jew or other will be responsible for his or her own acceptance of rejection of Christ.

Answer 3

Paul said "Whether from false motives or true, I praise God that Jesus s preached in any way" He said this when the someone was healing with bad motives.

Even the tele-evangelist that were crooks can be celebrated because they preached Jesus. We're still blessed because we gave in good faith and the consequencs for bad ones are theirs.

Not sure what you mean "spreading the message to Muslims"

There is no right and wrong to this issue. Whatever your conscience allows is permissable.

Blessings Juju

Answer 4

And when was Jesus born again? It wasn't on the 25th of December, if that's what you've been thinking. And even Jesus' desciples didn't celebrate his B-Day, nor to Muslims celebrate Muhammad's. Though some misguided Christians and Muslims to celebrate these days as holidays. Allah knows best.

Answer 5

No. I celebrate Chuck Norris's birthday every Wednesday (this has been a bit of a problem with my employers, especially since I also take Fridays and Sundays off due to the Sabbath[s]). It is a wonderful day, and, the best part is, if you fail to celebrate well enough on one Wednesday, it is only 7 more days until Chuck Norris was born again!

Answer 6

Muslims don't celebrate even birth day of their Prophet Mohammad. They think what is so significant when we are born. Every year we are getting closer to grave.

Instead we should think if we accomplished any thing good for ourselves, our loved ones and humanity in past year or just wasted doing ridiculous things like watching footbal games sitting on couch for four hours, drinking bear and eating pizza. All are bad for our health and intelligence too.

Answer 7

My friend, you have a valid question on the trinity and christmas. But I would strongly recommend that you read the Bible, not what popular Christianity is saying. True Christianity worships the Father Who is the one true God, and worships Jesus, because He is the Son of God. Nobody else. Read the Bible, don't take my word for it. Write me, if you like. The truths of the virgin birth and the Son of God both go way, way back. And that is why Satan has tried very early on to counterfeit and pre-empt these realities.

Answer 8

I have no religion.

I celebrate the world's annual celebration in late December, as humans have since long before The Days of Jesus.

Answer 9

Nope...I'm a JW and it's not against my religion. I choose not to celebrate it because it has nothing to do with Jesus. It comes from pagan orgin, which you can read for yourself anywhere. Paul told us not to mis the clean with the unclean, so that rules out Christmas.

Answer 10

Huh?

My religion does not have some mortal "savior". We do have Yule, though. And another great thing is that we don't try to spread our message (ie, shove our dogma down protesting throats) to people who made a different religious decision.