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Non Christians Celebrating Christmas

Are you a non-Christian and still celebrate Christmas?

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I love giving gifts to family and friends. I know of one family member who finds it offensive that I celebrate Christmas in this manner, being that I'm an atheist, but I don't think one has to be a Christian to enjoy the holiday.
 
Why would it be offensive? It's not like we have some other God that we're dissing. Christmas is only connected by a frayed thread to Christianity at this point, anyway.
 
Define celebrating Christmas.
 
Considering the fact that it really isn't a Christian holiday (Christ wasn't born on December 25th and the holiday originates in pagan festivals celebrating the winter solstice - hence the tree), they really don't have much of a right getting "offended" that non-Christians are celebrating it. After all, they're not pagan either.
 
The easter bunny

Yes I celebrate it, because my family do, but also because Christmas doesn't have a thing to do w/ Christianity.
 
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Because I like getting free **** as much as anybody else? Well It's not free because the wife buys it with my money but hey when you get a D90 you don't complain because it happens to be Baby Jesus bday.
 
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It's simply not a religious holiday for many of us, anymore than Halloween is.
 
It's a day of celebrating your family and friends and the ties of good cheer and kindness that bond us together. That's worth celebrating.

Just because I prefer to celebrate it with hard liquor and Russian Roulette doesn't mean that I don't celebrate.
 
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Lachean said:
Yes I celebrate it, because my family do, but also because Christmas doesn't have a thing to do w/ Christianity.
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Its a celebration of Jesus Christ(mas)... People in CHRISTianity worships Jesus and his statues as if he were a God. Jesus Christ is THE center of the CHRISTian belief and has become the most important part of the "holy trinity".
 
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Maximus Zeebra said:
Its a celebration of Jesus Christ(mas)... People in CHRISTianity worships Jesus and his statues as if he were a God. Jesus Christ is THE center of the CHRISTian belief and has become the most important part of the "holy trinity".
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Oh wow, I guess if you change the name of a celebration by putting Christ in the name, it completely erases the origins of that holiday as well. :roll:

What does the date of Dec. 25th have to do w/ Christ? What do the festivities have to do w/ Christianity? Are you honestly ignorant to the fact that the entire holiday was stolen from pagan traditions?

The fact that Christians celebrate on the 25th is a bronze age marketing ploy.
 
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Lachean said:
Oh wow, I guess if you change the name of a celebration by putting Christ in the name, it completely erases the origins of that holiday as well. :roll:

What does the date of Dec. 25th have to do w/ Christ? What do the festivities have to do w/ Christianity? Are you honestly ignorant to the fact that the entire holiday was stolen from pagan traditions?

The fact that Christians celebrate on the 25th is a bronze age marketing ploy.
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Christmas -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

I am not Christian, and I personally believe Jesus was despicable man, even a con artist who lead billions of people into sin the next 2000 years and still, many people have lead others into sin, but not on the same scale as Jesus Christ. But Christmas is in his honor, no doubt about that.
It may or may not be that others also celebrate something else around the same dates, but if they aren't Christians and still call it Christmas then they must be pretty damn foolish. The themes of Christmas may have been robbed from somewhere else, perhaps thats what you mean? But then again, what better can you expect from Christians?
 
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Heaven is a communist dictatorship.

Jesus was a liberal Hippie.

Yet it is Republicans who are the most religious.

Interesting. ;)
 
I voted other because I am a 'Christian' and not unlike atheists who celebrate Christmas because of family I only participate (more like only physically present) because of my family and their personal enjoyment of this faux holiday.

I have grown to despise this 'holiday' and have become more Scrooge like over the last two decades so Bah-****ing-Humbug on Christmas. Let it become the secular retail money making holiday it is designed to be and take 'Christ' out of it completely.
 
Korimyr the Rat said:
It's a day of celebrating your family and friends and the ties of good cheer and kindness that bond us together. That's worth celebrating.

Just because I prefer to celebrate it with hard liquor and Russian Roulette doesn't mean that I don't celebrate.
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I'm guessing you won, glad to see you're still with us.:mrgreen:
 
Have we mentioned people of other religions celebrating Christmas? My friends who were Jewish used to get Hanuka presents, but their big presents would come Christmas morning.

And those kid's dads owned the department stores! :cool:
 
We all just view it as a Family Holiday.
We have and do nothing with Christ ir Christianity...
Even my Born Again uncle just treats it as a Family Holiday, since we all do.

It is fun seeing the family and playing table tennis and having the little kids running around!

Oh, and the food rocks!
 
Intransigent Atheist said:
. I define it for this topic as simply giving and receiving gifts on December 25th.
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You could give and receive gifts on any day of the year...if you were really a committed atheist it seems like you would shun December 25th as a date to do that...but then you are really co-opting a religious holiday for your own silly reason.
 
Intransigent Atheist said:
I love giving gifts to family and friends. I know of one family member who finds it offensive that I celebrate Christmas in this manner, being that I'm an atheist, but I don't think one has to be a Christian to enjoy the holiday.
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Muslims believe that Jesus is a prophet, on par with Mohammed, which is certainly worth celebrating, even if they do not accept that He is the son of God.

Even an intransigent athiest like yourself must admit that Jesus is an important historical figure. If you celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday, why would it be offensive to also celebrate Jesus' birthday? They are both important historical figures, whether or not you agree with everything that either of them said.

Personally, I never discuss religion on the internet, so I'm not going to say whether or not I am a christian. I am only pointing out that is is not incompatible with your beliefs to celebrate Christmas.

p.s. I hope you had a merry one!
 
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Lachean said:
Oh wow, I guess if you change the name of a celebration by putting Christ in the name, it completely erases the origins of that holiday as well. :roll:

What does the date of Dec. 25th have to do w/ Christ? What do the festivities have to do w/ Christianity? Are you honestly ignorant to the fact that the entire holiday was stolen from pagan traditions?

The fact that Christians celebrate on the 25th is a bronze age marketing ploy.
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Yep. You all should check out this thread where it was being talked about if you had not saw it:cool:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/breaking-news/40848-atheists-take-aim-christmas.html
 
Intransigent Atheist said:
I love giving gifts to family and friends. I know of one family member who finds it offensive that I celebrate Christmas in this manner, being that I'm an atheist, but I don't think one has to be a Christian to enjoy the holiday.
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Exactly. Christmas is both a religious holiday (for the faithful) and a secular holiday for everyone else. I don't understand why so many people automatically think that Christmas is nothing but a religious holiday.

In fact, Christmas started off as a pagan holiday. Religious conotations or not, I enjoy the Christmas season for many reasons: Santa Claus, decorating the tree, holiday lights and music, the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping, etc.
 
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