ATHIEST"S why do you celebrate Christmas?

Question

you can say thats it's all about family,BUT deep down inside you KNOW what it represents. and you can also say it's about santa and not Christ. I will admit, people have tried for many years to commercialize Christmas, BUT the fact still remains, it's the celebration of our lord. so why do you do it? to fit in maybe? Affraid of being looked down upon?
I am not saying you are not able to love and respect others feelings and religions. I am just wondering.This is a religous holiday. shouldn't you be proud,comfortable,and secure enough in your ATHIEIST veiws NOT to take advantage of a Christian holiday? and admit, it to your work, that you would work on that day because of your ATHIST veiws. This qustion also pertains to Easter. The day we Christians celebrate our lord, who rose from the dead. I'm not bashing anyone here. And I don't expect to be told to Drink. In My opinion those who say that, can't come up with any answer worth reading. thanks for the answers!

I want answers not spell checks, I never clamed to be perfect,, stop avoiding the question!

I want answers not spell checks, I never clamed to be perfect,, stop avoiding the question!

Answer 1

to upset and confess you christians

Answer 2

Why do you not celebrate "Christs" birth on the actual month he may have been born? The new consensus is in - September or August - but you actually celebrate it on a traditionally Pagan time of the winter solstice. This is when the crops are stored, the weather is less pleasant (even in the Middle east and the Mediterranean) and we spend more time indoors which gives us the winter blahs so we celebrate to make life a little less boring and tedious as well. Then when they celebrate the sun's return in the spring, Christians also celebrate the the rising of Christ from the dead as Pagans believe the rising of the sun and spring returns a new.
There is Yule, Christmas, and Festivus for the rest of us. Why can we not all just celebrate the true reason for the season and enjoy the company of friends and family, good food, and share it with everyone around us instead of making it a religious issue but a Peace time issue. This is the time of peace and rest and to be thankful for the things we have and the passing of the old year into the new.
Blessed be and Peace

Answer 3

Aren't you a little bit mixed up ? The biggest holiday of the wear has always been The Return of Light , celebrated by the Pagans thousands of before Jesus was ever dreamed up.
The Pagans celegrated with evergreen boughs and trees , mistletoe , lights , gift giving , feasting ,etc .
The entire holiday was stolen by the Christians intact , except they smuck in the birth of Jesus . He was not born at that time of year . Roman records show that there was no census taking at that time .
" Thou shalt not steal " but the Christians stole The Return of Light ( Christmas ) and The Rebirth ( Easter ), with all of their Pagan trappings intact , and declaired them to be original Christian holidays.
The Pagans celebrated The Rebirth with baby bunnies , baby chicks , flowers , eggs , everything that suggested coming back to life, Spring . How convenient that the Christians had their Jesus come back to life at exactly that time . Do you small something rather suspicious here ?
Now I'll ask a question . Protestants , why do you celebrate Christ's Mass ? A mass is a Catholic church service .

Answer 4

I don't celebrate Christmas. I have no choice but to take off work over the holiday because my employer closes up for it. At my last job, which was in a hospital, I always volunteered to work for two reasons, it gave my Christian coworkers the opportunity to have the day off and I got paid at 2.5 times my normal rate for being there.
Christmas time is really my least favorite time of year. The lie of peace on Earth and goodwill toward men is so apparent. Just go to any shopping mall. Just parking is a life-risking event. Those people, so full of goodwill, will try to ram you with their car just to get that parking spot before you do. In the stores they push and shove and elbow you in the face because you might be going after that last pop Ubertoy sitting on the shelf.
No, I do not celebrate Christmas, in fact I go out of my way to avoid the whole mess.

Answer 5

I want to let you know that I am a Christian and before you start condemning atheists for celebrating Christmas or Easter you need to do a little historical research because Christmas and Easter were both Pagen holidays before they were ever Christian holidays. Christmas was the winter solstice festival and Easter was the fertility Goddess's celebration day. Why the Easter eggs and bunnies because they are things that represent fertility. Christians stole these holidays and made them religious holidays they were not always religious holidays.

Answer 6

Deep down YOU know that Christ was not born on December 25th, and that holiday is really all about having a party in the winter to cheer folks up, as every culture with a winter has done, since long before Christ. You guys hijacked that pagan holiday, just to take it from them, for no religious reason whatsoever.

Take away Christmas trees, the lights, Yule logs, Santa Claus, the food, and tell me how many people would bother with it all.

Answer 7

"ATHIEST"S"

Covering all bases, I see. You weren't content to make just one spelling error, and decided you had to make all of them.

"you can say thats it's all about family,BUT deep down inside you KNOW what it represents."

Yes. Getting together with family and friends to celebrate the end of another year.

You've been completely dishonest here - doesn't it bother you at all to have to lie so much to retain your beliefs?

"I want answers not spell checks, I never clamed to be perfect,, stop avoiding the question!"

The correct answer to the question is that you're a not-very-bright person who has chosen to come to this forum to lie about atheists. Your intelligence and morality are both essentially non-existent, and you're not fooling anyone with your sad little attempt to force people smarter and more moral than you to answer a leading question based on false assumptions. On top of that, you're doing all of this in the name of Christianity during the Christmas season and in reference to the Christmas holiday, thus completely dishonoring your own belief system.

You'd do a lot better to just drop this, go sit and listen carefully, and learn to behave like an adult.

Answer 8

Why do YOU celebrate these things? Christmas & Easter celebrations are relatively recent human inventions, used to overshadow the pagan beliefs of people being taken over by Christians. If you ever bother educating yourself, you'll find that a good many "Christian" celebrations & symbols are nothing more than rehashed pagan inventions.
As an atheist, I personally don't celebrate either Christmas or Easter, and would go to work if I had the opportunity. Unfortunately, my work closes over this period, so me & my fellow atheists, Hindu & Buddhist friends find something else to do, and enjoy the time off work.

Answer 9

There are over 100 world religions that claim a winter holiday as the birth of their god/savior etc.

Christmas is not only a Christian holiday, in fact, the Christians are one of the newest religions to claim it.

In the United States, Christmas has pretty much become a secular holiday. Santa, all of that, it's good for the kids. Plus atheists believe in good will towards man, peace on earth (we aren't responsible for killing people in the lord's name, afterall) and joy to the world.

Wouldn't you rather be presenting yourself as a loving Christian looking to spread the good news of your lord Jesus Christ rather than taking an accusatory tone with non-believers? Isn't it your goal to convert non-Christians to see the light of Christ rather than to present your religion as an angry, judgemental fold? Shouldn't you be sharing this love of god you claim to have with those of us who do not believe, rather than being angry that we enjoy and celebrate some of the same, secular ideals, you supposedly enjoy?

And doesn't Jesus love us anyway? Aren't we still his children, even if we don't believe?

Answer 10

As a pagan atheist I celebrate Yule.

This holiday is about celebrating light and life in the darkest and dreariest time of year. It's about loving, caring, togetherness, family, and community. These are universal human concepts that don't belong to any one religion - or just to religion. They belong to everyone.

Ditto Easter, which is named for the fertility goddess Eostre, a blatantly pagan festival. It's about life in full bloom, the continuance and resurrection of life. Christians lifted it wholesale from pagans, but hey, I have no wish to deny you the right to celebrate the same things, just using different symbols.

Life and the right to celebrate it belongs to all people regardless of opinions on spiritual matters.

Answer 11

Who or what are athiests? The most "athi" people around? I have no idea why they celebrate, but as an atheist, I see Christmas as a cultural celebration that in reality has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus. I am sure uncontrolled spending, gluttony, drunkenness and all the other things that go on at Christmas are not exactly Biblical.