RE: Poll for atheists - Do you still celebrate Christmas and why?
November 29, 2015 at 2:12 pm
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2015 at 2:15 pm by Regina.)
Nobody seriously celebrates Christmas as "a religious holiday" anymore, let's be real.
We go so mad for Christmas in the UK that it (unofficially) starts in October before Halloween, but nobody is on the news or in the shops talking about "celebrating the birth of Christ". It has just become a commercialised holiday where everyone decorates their house nicely, buys presents and gets fat. In that sense, yes I celebrate Christmas, it's a nice holiday to brighten up an anotherwise bleak British winter.
And as Aurora suggest, Christians didn't originate the festival. It's of Pagan origin, under different names.
We go so mad for Christmas in the UK that it (unofficially) starts in October before Halloween, but nobody is on the news or in the shops talking about "celebrating the birth of Christ". It has just become a commercialised holiday where everyone decorates their house nicely, buys presents and gets fat. In that sense, yes I celebrate Christmas, it's a nice holiday to brighten up an anotherwise bleak British winter.
And as Aurora suggest, Christians didn't originate the festival. It's of Pagan origin, under different names.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
