Poll for atheists - Do you still celebrate Christmas and why?

[Aroura]

I celebrate the holidays I was raised with, just with my own take on them.  Kind of like how Christians aren't celebrating Saturnalia, I'm not celebrating "Christ"mas, but I am finding it a good excuse to bake and eat goodies, do crafts with my kid, clean and decorate my house, and spend time with family and friends.  I do buy gifts for my kid, but I make gifts for everyone else.  Some years we can goods, some years we make chocolates, or batches of fresh baked goods, some years I sew up and send out cloth shopping bags, or aprons, or little zipper bags, things like that.

We still decorate and hide eggs on Easter, because why not celebrate new life (and chocolate candies) in spring?  We eat turkey on Thanksgiving, not because I wish to celebrate the pilgrims, or the slaughter of native peoples, but because it is tradition to enjoy a fall feast with family.

I find most non-religious people still celebrate these holidays, just in their own way.  Pretty much just like most religious people do. whether most like to admit it or not, they celebrate these MOSTLY as family get togethers, with the religious parts of the celebrations being quite minor, and sometimes pretty non-existent.

P.S.  Don't be a Grinch.