Atheists and Agnostics: Do you celebrate Christmas?

[Gringo Starr]

Im just curious to see if ya'll celebrate the Christian holiday in all its commerical wonder.

 

[JLMACN]

Theres nothing like getting together with your family and closest friends exchanging gifts of appreciation, eating, drinking, and chatting it up.

I dont believe it was Jesus bday....
It just a day that symbolizes his Bday. Do I personally care? NO.

I just love to be with my family ....period.

5000

 

[Gringo Starr]

Does a holiday have to constitute being with one's family though?

 

[JLMACN]

no but lets face it.....Holidays are what bring those aunts, uncles, Cousins....that you aint seen in a while...or maybe all year...out.

Why? I dont know....I never want to be that uncle that doesnt "know" his nephews and nieces...cause I got so many in my family that dont know me.

5000

 

[Cmoke]

nope. and as far as im concerned its a holiday created by the industry to boost sales just like every other holiday in this country.

 

[Deadpool]

You bet! Hyper fusion of capitalist decadence, Christian mythology, pagan rituals, and American/individual family traditions = nothing but a good time.

If they gave me time off work to celebrate the FBI holiday that follows closely behind, I’d get down with that too.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

I consider it an Amerikan holiday and use it as an excuse to hang out with the family. So in that sense I celebrate it.

But fuck no I don't hang up xmas lights and plastic reindeer on my rooftop or wear gay ass xmas sweaters. Next year I'm going to put up a giant pentagram on my roof just for shock value.

 

[Gringo Starr]

I consider it an Amerikan holiday and use it as an excuse to hang out with the family. So in that sense I celebrate it.

But fuck no I don't hang up xmas lights and plastic reindeer on my rooftop or wear gay ass xmas sweaters. Next year I'm going to put up a giant pentagram on my roof just for shock value.

Do you buy and recieve gifts for Christmas too?

 

[2-0-Sixx]

Do you buy and recieve gifts for Christmas too?

Yeah, because I feel obligated to. You know, for family & girlfriends and whatnot. Don't want to be seen as the dick or the cheap ass. Just another consumer holiday.

 

[MEXCOM]

So you anarchists/commies/socialists/leftists are shamed into buying gifts? No wonder communism never worked.

 

[XxtraMannish]

Im not an athiest or a Christian but I celebrate it for the same reason that JLMACN does. In that sense, I guess its not really a celebration of Christmas, but more of a celebration of family.

 

[XxtraMannish]

So you anarchists/commies/socialists/leftists are shamed into buying gifts? No wonder communism never worked.

communism never worked? China looks like their doing ok.

 

[JLMACN]

IM NOT SHAMED....I LOVE TO DO IT..

ITS GREAT SEEING YOUR CHILDRENS FACES WHEN THEY GET SOMETHING THEY DESERVE...OR NIECES AND NEHPHEW...OR BROTHERS AND SISTERS..

5000

 

[MEXCOM]

communism never worked? China looks like their doing ok.

Oh yeah, that's right because they still have a pauper class that can't buy enough rice to feed their families but yet have an elite class that is buying BMW's and Tiffany's diamonds.

 

[Gringo Starr]

Yeah, because I feel obligated to. You know, for family & girlfriends and whatnot. Don't want to be seen as the dick or the cheap ass. Just another consumer holiday.

I can understand that. Commercialism has tricked us into thinking that way. They you add the pressure from loved ones and it all adds up to you spending more money on things you could bought for yourself. At least, thats the way I look at it.

I, myself, do not partake in any X-mas fesitivities besides work (its mandatory and I get paid for it). I dont buy gifts and I tell everyone NOT to buy me anything becuse they will recieve NOTHING in return (excpet for grandma...you dont ever say no to grandma). IT seems every though, someone has to go and buy something and it really irriatates me. Even my own parents know NOT to get me anything.

I dont HATE Christmas, I HATE what our society has turned it INTO. Few kids seem to know the "true meaning" of the holiday, and it seems parents are pressured more and more into thinking that the bigger and better the gift, the more their kids will love them for just one more year.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

So you anarchists/commies/socialists/leftists are shamed into buying gifts? No wonder communism never worked.

Says the "leftist" that buys his girl jewelry at Tiffanys

 

[JLMACN]

Few kids seem to know the "true meaning" of the holiday, and it seems parents are pressured more and more into thinking that the bigger and better the gift, the more their kids will love them for just one more year.

just curious...

what do you mean by this?

5000

 

[XxtraMannish]

Oh yeah, that's right because they still have a pauper class that can't buy enough rice to feed their families but yet have an elite class that is buying BMW's and Tiffany's diamonds.

I guess no capitalist countries have this problem, right?

 

[2-0-Sixx]

China is not communist.

Even Homer Simpson knows China is not communist:

"You guys are commies? Then why am I seeing rudimentary free markets springing up everywhere?" - Homer J.

Further:

China endorses private property


Further:

Just to further show how far China has move away from communism:

Where’s Mao? Chinese Revise History Books

BEIJING, Aug. 31 — When high school students in Shanghai crack their history textbooks this fall they may be in for a surprise. The new standard world history text drops wars, dynasties and Communist revolutions in favor of colorful tutorials on economics, technology, social customs and globalization.

Socialism has been reduced to a single, short chapter in the senior high school history course. Chinese Communism before the economic reform that began in 1979 is covered in a sentence. The text mentions Mao only once — in a chapter on etiquette.

Nearly overnight the country’s most prosperous schools have shelved the Marxist template that had dominated standard history texts since the 1950’s.

LINK

 

[Deadpool]

Observing Christmas in the way that "we" do in America is highly dishonorable to the name of Christ.

There are comparatively few that spend Christmas in a holy manner.

Christmas lends itself to pagan syncretism more than any other Christian festival (Yule, tree, holly, etc).

Christians should be more worried about "losing" easter.