Do You Celebrate Christmas?

[Freddy]

I think that Christmas as celebrated by Christians fits the definition of "Holiday".

Hmmm.....

 

I am going through a similar thing at home. My wife has taken it upon herself to cleanse our house of Christianity. Yet all other religions seem to be welcome. We have been collecting ornaments for the tree over the years. Her mother had given us a crystal ornament every year from 1995 to 2002. The 1998 ornament was a nativity picture engraved in the crystal. So Shannon has decided that it is no longer appropriate to hang that ornament, or any angels. Yet she bugs me every year to do the Hanukkah candles and prayer with the kids. She is baptized as a Mormon, and currently practices Wicca. I think she wants to do the candles just to kiss my mom's (Jewish) butt. :( :lightning

 

I recognize the same practice of selective intolerance in Freddy's post. Pagan celebration (religion based) is OK. Christian celebration (religion based) not OK and is fact a fraud. :santa: :shrug:

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

Bill

I am not intolerant of anyones' beliefs. Sure I do not agree with them. Even within my own family, who's beliefs are different than mine. It is all about family and being together for me. So I will spend Christmas with my parents, wife, sibllings and their families, and a dear aunt and her family. They will play Christmas music and my Mom will have out the nativity display and much of the pagan parts of the holiday. Dad, who is near 80, still plays Santa for the grand kids. It is all ok. I will even listen to Christmas music during the trip up to NH and back to keep my wife happy. It is just that I am aware of the history of the holiday from 4,000 years back in Mesopotamia to the present and most people who I know are not aware. You will not see me at midnight Mass or catch me singing religious carols. I have to draw the line somewhere. I would never tell anyone not to celebrate the holiday. A friend told me today that he could not say Merry Christmas only Happy Holidays to his customers. I told him if he wants to say Merry Christmas go ahead. To me it is an expression of kindness and not a religious dogma. In the end I will have spent quality time with my family again and that is all that matters. Plus there is lots of good stuff to eat!

[Southtown]

All sun worshiping religions, such as all the Abrahamic ones, base their celebrations on the sun's cycles.

Abrahamic religions are not sunworshippers.

 

http://hypography.com/forums/theology-forum/6230-feasts-lord-part-1-a.html?highlight=hebrew+calendar

 

The sun being reborn easily becomes the birth of the son, especially when you are killed if you dare bring up the much older rebirth of the sun story during the growth of Christianity.

Resources?

 

http://hypography.com/forums/theology-forum/7049-truth-about-religion-16.html?highlight=establishment#post147535post147336

 

So then I see a poll asking if I also sucker into the more recent spin on sun god worship, Christianity and it's spin, Christmas (Yahweh was originally the sun god in that polytheistic group).

Resources?

 

Had I read that the author lacked clarity in constructing the poll, giving an apriori acceptance to Christmas as the actual reason for this season, and had actually meant do we do any celebrating around now for what ever reason, my answer would have been different.

If Christians didn't invent Christmas, why don't you celebrate it?

 

My biggest wish (perhaps next to Peace on Earth, Imprisonment for the Bush clan and new tubes for my guitar amp) is that if Christians want to refuse to acknowledge reality (needed to remain a Christian) they at least stop claiming they invented everything. And that if they do not get SPECIAL consideration, there is a battle against them.

 

Yes stores are using the baby Jesus as a sales tool. congradulations! You'll be bitching about them using his name in vein next year like you did a few years ago which forced them to start saying Happy Holidays in the first place. Which will back you all very happy that a local strip joint is also using Jesus to promote their "Christmas Party" special stripper night and it's fund raiser "Tatas for Toys". So will Jesus being doing pole and table dances that night!

Who are you addressing? :(

[Southtown]

My wife has taken it upon herself to cleanse our house of Christianity. Yet all other religions seem to be welcome. We have been collecting ornaments for the tree over the years.

What does everyone have against sun god worship? Geez. :shrug:

 

Yet she bugs me every year to do the Hanukkah candles and prayer with the kids. She is baptized as a Mormon, and currently practices Wicca. I think she wants to do the candles just to kiss my mom's (Jewish) butt. :( :santa:

Women... :lightning