Should atheists and wiccans celebrate Christmas??

Question

After all, Christmas celebrates the Birth of Christ, if they don't want to have part of religion, then celebrate some other way on some other day

Answer 1

Celebrating the season & not the birth of christ whom wasn't born at this time of the year anyway.

The roots of Christmas is in the pagan world so why shouldn't us pagans celebrate Our time of the year.

Answer 2

Actually, Christmas is a pagan holiday that was hijacked by Christians, who them claimed it was a day to celebrate the birth of Christ. Jesus wouldn't have even been born in December.
And if you have a decorated tree in your house, that's a pagan symbol, too, as well as mistletoe. Neither of those things have anything to do with Jesus Christ. In fact, the Bible speaks *against* having decorated trees.
(Jeremiah 10 "3For the customs of the peoples are false: a tree from the forest is cut down, and worked with an axe by the hands of an artisan; 4people deck it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move.")

So actually, anyone from any belief system has just as much a right as you do to celebrate Dec 25th, and pagans have MORE of a right than you. Why don't *Christians* go celebrate some other day? Maybe actually try to get the MONTH of Jesus's birth right...

Answer 3

Firstly I am unsure as to why you addressed Wiccans specifically as they do fall into the same category as atheists. Wiccans like other pagans, celebrate Yule a festival that predates Christmas. The only reason that Christmas is celebrated on 25th December is because the Romans purposely chose the date to coincide with pagan festival of Yule.

Answer 4

Christmas is really just a bastardized update of the mid-Winter celebration.

If Jesus really was just a knock-off of Mithras this would be even more telling. Because Mithras was known as both the Son OF God, and the Sun God. Celebrating the return of the Sun God just after the equinox would make some sense.

SO - sure anyone can celebrate the equinox & return of the sun, after that.

Answer 5

Christmas is also celebrated as a non-religious holiday. This was never a religious holiday for me.

Hanukah, however, is not. Every Hanukah that I have attended, was religious.

I look to Christmas the same way I look at Easter, Thanksgiving, and New Years as non-religious holidays.

I tell you what. We'll celebrate Christmas on the 24th and the 25th. You can pick another day.
Otherwise, you may have to share it with us non-believers. We do not mind. I hope that we do not ruin your day.

Answer 6

Geez, how long before people actually read up on history of holidays before passing judgment and asking the same silly questions over and over and over and over?

Christmas was pagan to begin with. Dec. 25th was chosen as the "universal" date to celebrate christs birth by some long dead king.

It IS NOT the actual date of his birth so perhaps you should think of moving it closer to when that actually happened if you are so concerned.

Answer 7

Um. We celebrate a late Saturnalia and Bacchanalia and the Winter Solstice.

It's a bloody tree in my living room and a wreath on the door, not a cross in the living room or lamb's blood on the door.

Answer 8

Christmas celebrates the Winter Solstice. It was a major Roman holiday long before the Christians took it over and called it "Jesus' birthday".

Answer 9

They can get the Wall Street Journal and see the final retail numbers and celebrate like all the others for financial reasons. Or do like the Jews and go out for chinese food.

Answer 10

Yes, most customs of Christmas are based on Pagan traditions anyway.