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Christmass and Christianity

I dunno, but what is it about Christians that they insist everyone celebrates their celebrations? Not that Christmas is a Christian Holiday, the Ashur(sp) Pole from Babylon is the predecessor to the Christian Christmas Tree for eg. Why not practice your Religion like everybody else?
 
The christian religion sucks, so I believe its just the season to joy and show its better to give than receive.
 
Dunno, I think a movement to remove christmas is plain wrong.

I am vehemently anti-religious. Not an activist, I just think that religion inherently sucks. However, I feel that like marriage, christmas has evolved to something outside of religion, and instead is a time for everyone to love and appreciate each other, even if we do fight the rest of the year.

It's nice to have all the enormous social pressure of buying presents and giving them to your fat aunt, neh? 🙂
 
i am a person who is of no religion in practice, hindu officially but i don't follow it, just to preserve the culture

i however DO celebrate christmas, and can understand and respect the fact that it is a christian holiday. i don't celebrate it for the religious aspects, i do it for the cultural aspects. they shouldn't mess with the religious value of christmas



edit: but then again, shouldn't they celebrate other holidays? such as judaism, and islam? how about divali?
 
Originally posted by: KidViciou$
i am a person who is of no religion in practice, hindu officially but i don't follow it, just to preserve the culture

i however DO celebrate christmas, and can understand and respect the fact that it is a christian holiday. i don't celebrate it for the religious aspects, i do it for the cultural aspects. they shouldn't mess with the religious value of christmas



edit: but then again, shouldn't they celebrate other holidays? such as judaism, and islam? how about divali?
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Does Divali involve a lot of Spicy Indian food? If so, I'm in!! 🙂
 
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edit: but then again, shouldn't they celebrate other holidays? such as judaism, and islam? how about divali?
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No. BEcause then we would have holidays left and right and the school year would be much longer 😛 Just like we can't expect xmas to be celebrated in a predominately Hindu country, or Xmas (tho the iraqis gobbled up the whole santa thing last year XD I wonder if any of them realize there is a religious part to it? hahah), we can't expect to celebrate it here. That isn't an excuse for merging church and state, and we should try to seperate as much as possible...but in the end people want holidays and xmas fits the bill beacuse to the religoius folks they have their meaning, and to everyone else its the biggest shopping time of the year 😀
 
I have no problem with removing the Christianity from the xmas holiday. Everyone can have a wonderful time, celebrate the season, give gifts, and so forth without grafting an artificial religious meaning to the day.
 
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
I have no problem with removing the Christianity from the xmas holiday. Everyone can have a wonderful time, celebrate the season, give gifts, and so forth without grafting an artificial religious meaning to the day.
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That's exactly what my family does. No trees, no church, no nothing but an excuse to get the family together and have a huge dinner.
 
well like i said, i celebrate christmas for the cultural aspect, not the religious aspect, and still go all out with the decorations. perhaps the government could do the same?
 
I'm an Atheist and I celebrate Christmas (obvioulsy not the religious aspect of it, but rather as a season of giving and being charitable). 🙂
 
I am agnostic and I celebrate Christmas. I also use it as a time to honor the values given to me by Christians and Christianity. Trying to take out the Christian religion from Christmas is simply wrong.
 
The OPs statement is stupid, no one's trying to keep Christians from celebrating Christmas. they are trying to keep government from implicitly endorsing a religion.

Why do you think that overstating your legitimate point strengthens your argument?

That being said, I think that it is stupid for cities with Christmas traditions to stop celebrating them.
 
What's this Christmas thing? December 25th is Gravmass, the holiday where we celebrate Isaac Newton's birthday and the discovery of universal gravitation and development of Newtonian mechanics by singing carols like "We 3 laws of Motion are..." You know that one, right?
 
By all means have a party on Dec. 25, but why call it Christmas unless you are celebrating Christ's coming into the world?
 
Originally posted by: CSMR
By all means have a party on Dec. 25, but why call it Christmas unless you are celebrating Christ's coming into the world?
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Cuz that's the common name for it?

 
Originally posted by: wiin
Australia's biggest city up in arms over "politically correct" Christmas

It looks like the movement to eliminate Christianity and Christmass celebration is happening not just in America. What is it about christianity that make people feel so threatened? I do not feel offended by people celebrating their religion and I do not care what they do in their religion.
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I'm pretty much agnostic but still celebrate Christmas as I feel it's a good opportunity to get together with friends and family and to practice goodwill towards men, etc. That sort of secular sentiment is probably lost on the church busy-bodies at large who tend to push their religious agenda where ever and whenever they can. If you want to celebrate your religious holiday, go visit your church. Why is that so difficult? Are Christians really that insecure that they have to prove to everybody that they're celebrating a religious holiday?
 
Originally posted by: CSMR
By all means have a party on Dec. 25, but why call it Christmas unless you are celebrating Christ's coming into the world?
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I thought Dec 25 was a Roman holiday adopted by the Christians. 😕
 
Originally posted by: CSMR
By all means have a party on Dec. 25, but why call it Christmas unless you are celebrating Christ's coming into the world?
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Because it IS Christmas, that's what's special about Dec. 25. Whether or not it's Christmas because of Christ's coming or because a bunch of religious people decided it was a holiday, I still consider it Christmas. And I never pass up an excuse to eat a lot, drink a lot, and get together with friends and some of my family 😀
 
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