Merry CHRIST-mas?

Question

what's with all the christmas bashing. CHRISTmas is about CHRIST, not about presents. NOBODY MAKES U CELEBRATE CHRISTIAN HOLIDAYS!
Why is every other religion allowed to have their holidays .nobody says, hey let's change hannakuh, cuz i'm not jewish. let's call it 'the holiday' or 'gift-ikuh'. how come Christians are the only religions that are discriminated against? everyone else is protected in America, even the Muslims??? why is it that in public schools, muslims are allowed to worship, but for Christians it is strictly forbidden?
Have people forgotten the fact that America was founded by Christians? on Christian morals and beliefs. That the whole reason the pilgrims came to America was so that they would be free to worship God?

really, because last time i checked it WAS about Christ, at least up until a few years ago when suddenly it is 'politically incorrect'.... hence the name CHRIST-mas

i'm not saying it's bad to give presents on Christmas, i quite enjoy the tradition myself, but that's not ALL that Christmas is about. that's what everyone wants to make it about, ONLY presents. the post that got me onto all of this was actually suggesting that we rename it merry giftmas.

so pleas don't think i'm saying presents and joy on christmas is bad, i'm just saying there's more to it than that

Answer 1

Merry Christmas. We are in America and have the right to choose. We have freedom of speech, and a lot of other freedoms. I don't understand why others just don't respect others religious beliefs and let it go. I always say Merry Christmas. I don't shun others for not believing the same as I do, but don't take my beliefs and try to take them away.

Merry Christmas to you and all your family.

Answer 2

Christmas is a contraction from "Christ's Mass", which was celebrated after Advent. (Catholics call their church service "mass".) When attempting to introduce Christanity into pagan cultures, they discovered there was already a winter festival called Yule. So they kind of eased the natives into Christianity by merging Yule celebrations with Christ's Mass, since there were many similarities to take advantage of. Eventually people just started saying "Christmas" because it rolls off the tongue easier, until it was so common it became an actual word. Since the merry gift-giving thing was a lot more fun than a solemn and quiet church service, the idea of celebrating Christmas with presents kind of spread like wildfire. Eventually in the late 1800's a department store created "Santa Claus" as a marketing tool, based on the actual historical figure of Saint Nicholas. Santa Claus took on an identity of its own, and sort of got incorporated into the whole Christmas idea.

It's basically the same thing with Easter and eggs--the Christian holiday got merged with pagan traditions, and the modifications stuck with us until today.

Answer 3

I am a Christian, but frankly I don't think we should be using our time complaining about what our Savior's birthday celebration is called. WE know what it is for. Therefore we should put the nativity scene in our front yards and say 'Merry Christmas' to everyone.

We should act like Christians instead of stirring up contention among the Christians and non- Christians, and I'm sure Christ himself would rather see us visiting the nursing home and taking presents to the needy rather than fussing at things that would restrict people's free agency.

Merry Christmas!!

Answer 4

Firstly...christmas is a stolen holiday, like many others. Christmas also means many things to many different people, not just christians. Every religion should be entiltled to their holidays, you still have the right to celebrate christmas however you see fit. I don't know much about the states, but here in Canada, public schools do not allow 'worship' of any kind, which is why i choose to send my children there, so they can concentrate on education, not religion. Religion has no place in education, law, or the workplace. Perhaps since the states has diversified sinice the days of christopher columbus, no one really cares that it was founded by christians anymore?

Answer 5

Why do you celebrate a pagan holiday and try to cover it up by calling it the birth of your god (which, if you look at the Bible, was not in December)?

People don't celebrate Hanukkah as widely because it isn't as fun as the Yule celebration. Hanukkah's reason is quite a bit different than Yule's. Also, stating "happy holidays" means EVERYONE'S holiday around the winter solstice, it's not just trying to make yours appeal to the masses. Stop being selfish.

No one is allowed to do any religious acts if it distracts the classroom. You can pray, just don't stand up on your desk and scream.

The U.S. was not founded by Christians but by deists. What are the Christian morals, exactly? Stone an adulterous woman to death? Excommunicate anyone who doesn't donate enough money to churches? Those were sure morals that occurred on our soil. I'm sure you would be just fine sitting back and watching the show if America was founded by Satanists.

Answer 6

Christmas is actually based on the age-old celebration of the Winter Solstice. Early church fathers usurped the holiday to try to enlist pagans to their new religion. Jesus wasn't born in December - because we know when the Star appeared. And if you think that Christians are "persecuted", think of all the people killed by the church over the thousands of years it has existed because they wouldn't kowtow to the priests.

Wake up and smell the coffee. Everyone in the world has the right to celebrate their religious holidays - and they're not ramming them down Christian throats. Why do militant Christians insist on ramming Christmas down everyone else's?

Answer 7

Actually.. America wasn't founded by christians at all, which it did adapted the bible back in the 1600s

America was founded by Pilgrims fleeing the Crusaders who were enforcing the bible on people, an who ever didn't adpat to that god was a center of all life.. would die such as burned/crusified/hanged/ be headed..

USA national capital.. Washington D.C. if you ever go there you will see many, many Pagan symbols/statues.. pentagon for instantce in likeness of the pentagram. 5 signs of which pentagram was only claimed heretic/ satanism by the Christians/Catholic..

***the pentagram represents 5 meanings***
Spirit, earth, wind, water, and fire

kinda like the captian planet thing.. but that is what the Pentagram TRULY represented.. Christians just labled it evil...

Other then just the pentagon in the D.C. you have gargoyles another Pagan symbol.. where a gargoyle is to scare evil/bad spirits away..
They have the Pagan goddess of the underworld, on several buildings.. the pagan goddess she was said to be the one who takes people, once they die to the underworld.. where the underworld.. is the after/internal life after death..

Key point here is that Pilgrims brought more pagan ethic to the nation then christian.. which also be in mind the

-Xmas tree- is a pagan symbol.. the tree is supose to bring hope an virtue for ones that keep the tree alive during the vast winter.. because back in the 1600s.. there wasn't medical/food sources like what we have today..

-Easter Bunny- another Pagan symbol, the rabbit represents life, purity, and rebirth of nature

-Halloween Pumpkin - Pagan symbol represents hope that enough food has been harvested before the long winter starts..

thanksgiving- the day the pilgrims thanked the Indians, was probably the newest of the national traditions in the category.. Just was a holiday to say, once the pilgrims came.. they didn't in-slave any Indians.. unlike when the british came to America, John Smith.. brought slaves, killed indians, made the Indians slaves.. an what ever else

Oh well then there is Santa Clause, Chris cringal Nicholas? Ol' Saint nicholas.. which he was a real person, although never a Saint, but gave children toys for Xmas to just give them something to do when they couldn't go outside in the harsh cold climate.. an people put thought into his belief just like christ.. maybe it is Chrismas??

I don't know for sure.. but i've read the bible an disagree with it.. mainly cause a pagan philosopher back in the 1500s made a bunch of prophecies.. that talked about a massive flood, humanity dieing off an several others things that the bible has.. but the differents is that the bible wasn't in the same order of the phrophecies the old pagan witch philosopher wrote..

Look at the bibles stories.. they seem like pagan an other scriptures stitched to christianity..

Placeing lambs blood on doors to keep god from killing who ever in the story of moses

-Voodoo witch doctors would place a dead animals blood opun a door to create a sacred feild so that no curses or evil powers could come bestoed on the dweller of the house

The dove in another bible stories, Pagans seldomly used animals in theyre story or folklore to represent stuff.. such as astrology:cancer the crab, leo the lion, taurus the bull, even the easter rabbit..

but all that of how the bible looks like it strips another cultures ethics away... mainly people they were killing the Pagans.. makes me not believe what the bible says.. cause i look at the crusades now.. fighting over jesus.. when it was just too.. KILL OFF THE PAGANS.. to put a jesus sticker on all the pagan ethics..

Thats only what i see an i believe..

Answer 8

The idea of Christmas came about when the Roman Catholic Church decided to assimilate pagans into Christianity by turning the pagan winter solstice into celebrating the birth of Christ. In fact Christmas trees come from German pagan traditions. But still it's about celebrating the birth of Christ but it's now it's become so commercialized that it's just a nice winter holiday but hey I can still celebrate Jesus' birth and give/receive presents like everyone else.

Answer 9

They gave presents at the Birth of Christ. There was a millioneer many years ago who would give worldly gifts to children. He did this ever year around this time for the Birth of Christ. People saw the great joy in the children and the worshipping of JESUS and saw profit and the parents saw the happiness. The millioneer died a the tradition began. You know your heart stay true. You know it is written the meek shall rule the world. so dont mind those who think there in control. The truth will change whats needed.

Answer 10

i'm no longer religious in any respect yet i wouldn't in any respect evaluate "Merry Christmas" an insult. I additionally does no longer evaluate "satisfied holiday journeys" insulting. i think of it rather is a small minority on the two components making a great style of noise approximately Christmas greetings. I form of like "satisfied holiday journeys" extra desirable via fact it does disguise all the holiday journeys of the season yet that rather contraptions some human beings off like we are short changing Jesus by no longer extraordinarily acknowledging Christ in Christmas.

Answer 11

Choosing to wish people "Happy Holidays" is not about discriminating against Christians. It is about recognizing that in our multicultural world, you don't always know whether your coworker or classmate is Christian or not. I work with Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Hindus. I wish hem Happy Holidays. When I am in church, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. It's not hard. And it shows love for others, something that is a Christian virtue.