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Why do you celebrate Christmas?

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CoolTech

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...being in that the majority of the American tradition has nothing to do with Christmas.

IMHO we would all be better off giving to the homeless or sponsoring a child. This has so much more lasting affects. I mean you can see the fruits of your labor. Do this instead of lavish gifts to friends and family. I remember when I was a kid I used to compete with my friends on the quantity and quality of gifts I received. What is wrong with our culture?
 
Originally posted by: CoolTech
...being in that the majority of the American tradition has nothing to do with Christmas.

IMHO we would all be better off giving to the homeless or sponsoring a child. This has so much more lasting affects. I mean you can see the fruits of your labor. Do this instead of lavish gifts to friends and family. I remember when I was a kid I used to compete with my friends on the quantity and quality of gifts I received. What is wrong with our culture?
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who says you cannot do both? I often give to the Salvation Army while I am out shopping...and throughout the year.
 
I don't really, being an atheist. Thing is, you're kind of forced to do the whole card/present thing otherwise friends/colleagues take offense.

I give the obligatory cards and gifts, but do not celebrate the whole christmas thing.
 
I have no idea, tradition I imagine. This year though, I really did not like having to do Thanksgiving, my god what a useless holiday.
 
Originally posted by: Wheezer
Originally posted by: CoolTech
...being in that the majority of the American tradition has nothing to do with Christmas.

IMHO we would all be better off giving to the homeless or sponsoring a child. This has so much more lasting affects. I mean you can see the fruits of your labor. Do this instead of lavish gifts to friends and family. I remember when I was a kid I used to compete with my friends on the quantity and quality of gifts I received. What is wrong with our culture?
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who says you cannot do both? I often give to the Salvation Army while I am out shopping...and throughout the year.
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why not just give more to charities instead of shopping? I mean all these holidays created to glorify gift giving, its sickening and most Americans play right into retailer's greasy hands.
 
Originally posted by: SilentZero
Because I believe in God and Jesus and its my faith.
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and what part of this holiday says you should glorify gift giving around the supposed time of Jesus's birth. I really don't think he would approve at what this holiday has become.
 
Besides my relationship with my god of my understanding, I really take it as a time of year to do things for my family, kids and others. It's become a tradition for ME. 😀

Oh and it represents the birth of Jesus. 😉
 
Originally posted by: spherrod
Originally posted by: CoolTech
Originally posted by: SilentZero
Because I believe in God and Jesus and its my faith.
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and what part of this holiday says you should glorify gift giving around the supposed time of Jesus's birth. I really don't think he would approve at what this holiday has become.
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according to Wiki, it predates Jesus - I don't know how accurate this is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#The_origins_of_Christmas
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christmas was created by the church to seem more apealing to other religions which celebrated the solstance
 
as you get older it's less about the gifts and more about getting together with family.

yes our family celebrates Christmas.
 
I celebrate Christmas because of my Christian faith.

I agree with others that Christmas has lost a lot of its meaning, and that it is now little more than an excuse for people to indulge in massive commercialism. Like someone else said, the true spirit of Christmas would be better served by helping those less fortunate than ourselves.

But on the flip side, people need to in general loosen up and celebrate anything more often. Anything we can do to add a little cheer to the world surely has to be a good thing.
 
I also believe it is what you do, within your own family, is what matters most. I come from a large family. I love the get togethers, always a good time. Eat, drink, be merry, spend time together.
 
Charles Dickens expressed it far more eloquently than I am capable of:

There are many things from which I might have
derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare
say," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the
rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas
time, when it has come round -- apart from the
veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything
belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a
good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant
time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar
of the year, when men and women seem by one consent
to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think
of people below them as if they really were
fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race
of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore,
uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or
silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me
good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"
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"A Christmas Carol"
Charles Dickens
 
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