Is it right for Atheists to stop working on Christmas Day?
2007-12-03 00:49:21 · 38 answers · asked by Sniper of Goth 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In South East Asian countries like Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, everyone gets to celebrate the festivals of everyone else's faith or beliefs because they are citizens of the same country and therefore, rejoice when others are rejoicing. So a Christian may not have to go to a Hindu temple during Diwali but respects the fact that the Hindus do, just as the Buddhists don't go to CHurch on Easter Sundays
If religious festivals causes bickering, disharmony and segregation, forget praising God or any Deity... There is no faith nor religion in a discriminatory heart... Where is the celebration and devotion in that?
2007-12-03 00:57:25 · answer #1 · answered by Tiara 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
More to the point, is it ethical for Christians to work on Sundays? --as in, earn their salary (i don't mean pulling Your donkey from the ditch). How ethical is it to get fired?
Not even that donkey could work on Christmas Day when absolutely every business is closed. But i worked the holidays, on a job that had no shut-down days -- i did it because i had no children and wanted to give others the chance to be with their kids. Was i unethical?
I wonder what, exactly, You mean by "like we do." Like, go to church? Kill a tree? Eat too much? Watch football? Set fire to Santa's pants?
2007-12-03 04:05:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is what I like to call a "Layer holiday". We Christians have adopted the day to celebrate the birth of Jesus but Dec 25th has been a holiday for many other faiths.
As mentioned on a previous answer of mine. the Winter Solstice and Saturnalia are both pinned in that rough time period.
2007-12-03 00:56:57 · answer #3 · answered by Bangbangbangbang 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As already pointed out. Almost everything about Christmas was stolen from the Pagans. The other stuff that is Christian is just flat out wrong... for instance, Jesus was not born in December. If you people actually read the bible, the clues point to him being born in much much warmer months.
So is it really ethical for Christians to celebrate a Pagan holiday under false pretenses?
2007-12-03 00:53:42 · answer #4 · answered by Pitchy 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Christians stole it from Pagans. Not only did they violate Pagan beliefs, but they broke God's commandment on stealing.
I don't do Christmas, I do Eid (Islamic holiday) even though I'm an atheist. Why? Because I love family get togethers. But were I born in a Christian family, I'd celebrate the commercial version.
Is it unethical to have fun with your family? I don't think so.
2007-12-03 00:54:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christmas was formed by trying to take over a pagan holiday to win more converts.
How ethical is that?
Well, now Christmas has evolved beyond Christianity and is now a fully comercialized holiday with frosty, santa, rudolph, presents, trees (which was pagan, as I recall), food, and family.
How ethical is it for Christians trying to claim a holiday period that was not their own...and not stop the evolution of it into a generalized holiday?
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-12-03 00:54:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well of course it is.
The 25th of December is associated with the birth of Christ and the celebration of the nativity, but it is also an amalgamation of pagan festivals and traditions dating back before the birth of Christ.
Saturnalia being the one the church wanted most to go away because it was really fun in some aspects, drinking, partying, sex, and pretty horrible in others with human getting killed because well, lets face it, the Romans knew how to party but they were freaks with little control over their lets kill people to show how bad *** we are urges.
Most of the decor of Xmas (dont be offended by the X. The "X"and "P" is the Greek letter "Chi" and "Rho" superimposed. They are the first two letters in the name "Christ" spelled in Greek (Xpistos))
are from Pagan ritual.
So the church decided to take the day and try and kill some of the pagan ways.
Besides, Jesus was born in June. He was a Gemini
2007-12-03 01:12:30 · answer #7 · answered by Sen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, actually, Chrismas is based on Christians celebrating (and then renaming) a Pagan holiday.
Jesus was probably born sometime in July. Christmas is where it is because everyone was already celebrating solstice.
So Christians have no special "right" to Christmas.
2007-12-03 00:53:10 · answer #8 · answered by Parsely Sage 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sure, so long as Christmas is the secular holiday it has become through commercialization. If a business is going to close for it, then everyone has a right to have the day off for it. You don't see people getting off for Yule, Kwanzaa, or Chanukah. Why not?
2007-12-03 01:13:31 · answer #9 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you can give a scriptural basis for YOU celebrating,you might have a point.Please provide scripture to justify why (1)You celebrate the birth of Jesus and (2)You celebrate on December 25.
There are "Holy days" listed.Can you show me the scripture about why Christians are (biblically)supposed to celebrate Christmas?
2007-12-03 00:54:21 · answer #10 · answered by reporters should die 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋