Could someone please tell me why there are?

Question

people that dont believe in the Christian religion yet celebrate it?
I dont understand??

Like Christmas. There are people who say that Jesus wasn't born yet Christmas is the time when Jesus was born. Holidays came from Holy days, our calender shows Easter, Pentecost and Christmas.

As a Catholic Christian I've tried to find out why, yet I can't. I want you answers world!

*Please dont report this! I just want to know!*

Answer 1

This time of year was a pagan holiday that Christians took over, so pagans seem to have a "we were here first" attitude about the whole thing. They do not understand that even though the day has pagan beginnings, Christmas is a celebration of Christ's birth. No, Christ was not born in December, but Christopher Columbus didn't discover anything in October but that is when Columbus' Day is. If pagans and athiests give a Christmas gift, put up a Christmas tree, make Christmas cookies, they are celebrating Christ's birth whether they intend to or not. If they do not want to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, then they should call it what ever it is that they call it and not Christmas. It is for this reason that Jews and Muslims do not celebrate Christmas.

You seem like a smart kid. Just don't get pulled into all of the debate and crap that is on here. If you want to find real answers the best way is to really study the Bible. God bless you and Merry Christmas.

Answer 2

Christmas is a Pagan holiday that the early Christians adopted. They did this to bring the Pagans into the Christian religion. Jesus' birthday was moved from its original date sometime in the mid year to December.

December 25 is actually the winter solstice. Christmas trees are symbols of Pagan worship.

Easter is Pagan, too, by the way. Rabbits and eggs? Symbols of fertility.

Answer 3

Why do you still have Thursdays? "Thor's Day"?
There's a lot of cultural inertia that can carry on for centuries after the original belief or celebration has faded or changed.

Yes, Holidays were once Holy days...
And the dashboard on a vehicle was to protect against pebbles and mud.
A meaning that was once true cannot simply be held as true for ever.
What people currently celebrate at the time called Christmas may be a religious commemoration, a family vacation, a midwinter festival, commerce-driven retail therapy, just "tradition" or social compliance...
And, I strongly suspect, frequently a not-fully-worked-through cocktail of those elements.

Answer 4

Christmas, like Halloween and St. Valentines Day, and Easter have become days for secular celebrations and parties. Very few people attach any religious importance to Halloween or Valentine's Day anymore. Sadly with all the gift giving emphasis put on Christmas, the religious significance may well fade away as well. Easter is less, but still it has become bunnies, eggs and fake grass day rather than the focal point of the entire Christian faith.

As the Bible says, "the love of money is the root of all evil."

Answer 5

How do you get the idea that christMASS was the time that Jesus was born since he was not and we have biblical facts and history to proof it?

Christmass is the birthday of tammuz the sungod son of semiramis the moongodess also called the queen of heaven.

Your religion adopted it from paganism to attract the noble into roman catholicism.

I admit that i do celebrate christmas, but from a cultural perspective and I am Messianic Appostolic. My dad is muslim and even he celebrates it from that perspective.

Hope this helps.


G-d bless,


Erol
http://www.answeringcatholicism.com

Answer 6

Christmas came from Winter Solstice or Yule. Easter came from the goddess Eostre or Ostara and her escort was a hare. Halloween came from Samhain. All these holidays were "borrowed" from the Pagans and their names changed. Jesus wasn't born on Christmas. He was born in the spring according to most biblical scholars. Late spring to early summer.

Answer 7

The reason is that Christmas is not a real part of Christianity. The Catholic beast stole it from pagans who worshiped the sun. This happened more than a thousand years ago. For a while, the Protestants held their ground against the demon vampire wh0re dressed as a little lamb but finally under pressure from their flesh, they gave in.
Now it has become the biggest, strongest golden calf that Gods people has ever known.

People don't think about Christ when they celebrate Christmas. they think about how pretty all the Xmas decorations look and how much fun it is to be having a vacation and visiting with family and friends.

Or, they think of how awful it is to lie in your own vomit on a cold winter night with no one around to give you company and no food to eat.





Hey Stewart,
If we are perfecting ourselves life after life why does humanity just get uglier?

Answer 8

You just try to ask such peopple itself better
Well i hav an opinion I will share it with you if none report my answer.

Many of the non-believers considers it a time to relax and a time to enjoy. Many of them are not really eager to accept the whole meaning of christmas. They are just joining them for fun.
As a Catholic Christian, I hav many complicated questions relating the genesis and the Darwin's theory of evolution.

Answer 9

Actually, Jesus was never born as he's a fictional character. Many aspects of christianity -- characters, philosophy, stories -- were "borrowed" from other religions and philosophies, therefore, christians have no claim on them.

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Did a historical Jesus exist?
http://www.nobeliefs.com/exist.htm
[Excerpt]

ALL CLAIMS OF JESUS DERIVE FROM HEARSAY ACCOUNTS

No one has the slightest physical evidence to support a historical Jesus; no artifacts, dwelling, works of carpentry, or self-written manuscripts. All claims about Jesus derive from writings of other people. There occurs no contemporary Roman record that shows Pontius Pilate executing a man named Jesus. Devastating to historians, there occurs not a single contemporary writing that mentions Jesus. All documents about Jesus got written well after the life of the alleged Jesus from either: unknown authors, people who had never met an earthly Jesus, or from fraudulent, mythical or allegorical writings. Although one can argue that many of these writings come from fraud or interpolations, I will use the information and dates to show that even if these sources did not come from interpolations, they could still not serve as reliable evidence for a historical Jesus, simply because all sources derive from hearsay accounts.

Hearsay means information derived from other people rather than on a witness' own knowledge.

Courts of law do not generally allow hearsay as testimony, and nor does honest modern scholarship. Hearsay provides no proof or good evidence, and therefore, we should dismiss it.

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The Myth of the Historical Jesus
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/nizrael/jesusrefutation.html

Do Any First Century Historians Mention the Jesus of Christianity?
http://freethought.mbdojo.com/josephus.html

Pagan origins of Jesus:
http://www.medmalexperts.com/POCM/index.html
http://geocities.com/christprise/
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/nizrael/jesusrefutation.html
http://www.rationalresponders.com/a_silence_that_screams_no_contemporary_historical_accounts_for_jesus
http://www.truthbeknown.com/origins.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/pcc/pcc09.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa3.htm
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/resurrection/lecture.html
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/virgin.html
http://www.harrington-sites.com/motif.htm
http://altreligion.about.com/library/weekly/aa052902a.htm
http://www.apollonius.net/bernard1e.html
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Answer 10

There's far more secularity in holidays than religious aspects, kid.

Honestly, I should be asking YOU why you celebrate Christmas, since it hardly has anything to do with the birth of Christ. It originated from a pagan festival, the Catholic church merely adopted it.