»Should non-christians celebrate christmas?«
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 Please log in to vote, thx very much! The strange thing is that an atheist (my mom) introduced me this religious celebration = the birth of Jesus Christ, when i was myself also an atheist b/c i became a christian by my own choice when i was already 9 years old & before that i already celebrated christmas every year. Isn't that funny? & i'm sure there're many other atheists in the world, who celebrate christmas too, but what do you think should they do that if they're not christians? [CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS PICTURE] posted by a |
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| in-my-opinion.orgReligion and Mysteries, from worship to werewolvesReligious & Philosophical TopicsShould non-christians celebrate christmas? |
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 We've quite a pretty mix of religions here. But we don't "celebrate" every religious event, we just savour the holidays, however shallow this might sound. Christians here celebrate Christmas, and we sometimes gift each other in the spirit of "togetherness and brotherhood and hope" and whatnot that is preached, but I don't celebrate Ramzan or Id (except by staying at home because it's a public holiday) either. If a non-Christian wants to celebrate christmas, I see nothing wrong with that. But it is rather weird when you actively celebrate the birth of the central figure of a religion although you may be neutral towards it or even oppose it. Seems sort of like hypocrisy, even if you say you're just celebrating the "values behind it" or something. 
posted by ryder |
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 Christmas was never really Christian persay, a why do you celebrate Christmas and yet you are not a pagan? posted by Kupov |
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Well, Sir Kupov  , that's what i was trying to explain in my 1st post, that even when i was an atheist, i celebrated christmas, but do you think it was ok to do that?
I guess you do. posted by a |
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 I was born and raised Jewish, and certainly nothing good has come out of Christianity for Jews or (in the last few hundred years, anyway) progress, whether scientific or social. Plus, I've learned too much Medieval history not to despise the Church. Still, I've always thought that Christmas parties were a lot more fun than Hanukka. 
posted by Sharaith |
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 Sharaith: Still, I've always thought that Christmas parties were a lot more fun than Hanukka score one for jesus, he sure knows how to party! 
[CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS PICTURE] posted by The ONEder Man |
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 Christmas is a religious feast? 
I thought it was called Christmas because they use so called "Christmas trees" And I thought they are celebrating a guy called "Santa" or "Claus". I don't remember. posted by knn |
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Are you kidding me? posted by Kupov |
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 knn: I thought it was called Christmas because they use so called "Christmas trees"
And I thought they are celebrating a guy called "Claus". Isn't that from the simpsons? posted by Deeindamatrix |
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Deeindamatrix: Isn't that from the simpsons? No, I just wrote what came to my mind, I never saw it mentioned in Simpsons. posted by knn |
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o.k so you seriosly don't know why christmas is called christmas? posted by Deeindamatrix |
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 The ONEder Man: jesus you can't line dance without your cowboy hat and shit kickers! LOL ONEder, what a line!
Total Texas funny. Good stuff. posted by MindSlave |
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 After all, isn't New Year also a religious feast? posted by knn |
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 knn: After all, isn't New Year also a religious feast? No, it's not. In 45 BC Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar, dropping Mercedonius and decreeing that the New Year should start on 1 January. ryder: But it is rather weird when you actively celebrate the birth of the central figure of a religion although you may be neutral towards it or even oppose it. What does a coniferous tree decorated with ornaments have to do with the birth of Jesus? Arguably, it's Christians who are in error by setting up a holiday tree --- nowhere in the New Testaments is such a practice mentioned or encouraged. posted by Tiefling |
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Tiefling: In 45 BC Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar, dropping Mercedonius and decreeing that the New Year should start on 1 January And how does that prove that "1st Jan New year" isn't a religious feast? In fact Caesar introduced Jan the 1st with religious reasons: In 46 B.C.E. the Roman emperor Julius Caesar first established January 1 as New Year's day. Janus was the Roman god of doors and gates, and had two faces, one looking forward and one back. Caesar felt that the month named after this god ("January") would be the appropriate "door" to the year. and Throughout the medieval and post-medieval periods, January 1 - supposedly the day on which Jesus' circumcision initiated the reign of Christianity and the death of Judaism - was reserved for anti-Jewish activities: synagogue and book burnings, public tortures, and simple murder. posted by knn |
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