Even though I'm agnostic I still celebrate Christmas just because I grew up Catholic and I guess it's just tradition. I don't celebrate Christmas for the life of Christ and what not, I personally don't see Christmas as a religious holiday it's just a time to get together and be with family.
Agnostics and atheists, do you celebrate Christmas?
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^ Pretty much the same ^ It's just a cheerie time of year in what is normally a cold winter and it gives people something to look forward to and an excuse for family to get together or at least contact one another. Very heavily commercialised though and people can spend fortunes on trees, decorations and chocolates/food etc. It also normally means a few days off where so you can get a little break after a hard years work and the pace of life just seems to slow down for a bit and you get a few days/weeks where you can sit down and relax. I guess this is also why people have new years resolutions because they've had a few days to think about their lives and what they might wanna change, of course once you re-enter the rat race that is life back in January all those resolutions go flying out of the window as life once again becomes work/eat/sleep 24/7.
Considering Christmas isn't even a possibility of when the messiah was born, why can you not celebrate if you are Atheist or Agnostic?
To be honest, modern man more closely celebrates Saturnalia than he does the religious aspect of Christmas.
To be honest, modern man more closely celebrates Saturnalia than he does the religious aspect of Christmas.
Yepper, the church moved the holiday to coicide with the existing holiday most northern Europeans already celebrated, i.e., the feast of the Winter solstice. Either way, it's a great time of year for a holiday and I always enjoy it
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I am an Atheist and I celebrate Christmas. I grew up in a mildly Catholic house so it is just tradition for me at this point. I acknowledge that it is a Christian holiday but I don't celebrate it for that. I celebrate all the secular stuff. Peace, goodwill and good spirits. I put up a tree and a few decorations every year. Nothing over the top.
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i celebrate the holiday with friends and coworkers merely as an excuse to get presents, get drunk, and receive a pity fuck or two.
days off from work dont hurt either
days off from work dont hurt either
StanScratch
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I celebrate it in the loosest sense of the word. Having worked in retail for quite some time and witnessing peoples' reactions towards things they want vs. things they are getting for others, the holiday is more wrought with greed, ego, and the shadiest sectors of the human soul rather than a feeling of giving. And my celebration is focused more towards the first week of January, when most people are done returning the stuff they don't want - only to bitch because what they do want has been sold out for several weeks.
My personal celebration is focused more towards seeing people and family I usually do not get to see - though I actually spend quite a bit of time with those I am close with a lot more often.
My personal celebration is focused more towards seeing people and family I usually do not get to see - though I actually spend quite a bit of time with those I am close with a lot more often.
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I celebrate Christmas and all but I don't go to church anymore. Now if anyone is religious that's fine as long as you don't try to put it in my face. We can even get some beer after mass and praise the Lord for our manhood. Cheers and Merry Christmas everybody. :glugglug:
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what? everybody knows that Jesus was not really born on Christmas...SANTA CLAUSE was.
It's all a conspiracy. Watch the documentary. Know the TRUTH.
I am having my lady friend dress up as Santa tmrw, and I'm going to smash the shit out of Santa. That's a real Christmas. HAPPY HOLIDAZE, and a MERRRY - JUANA CHRISTMAAAAS!
It's all a conspiracy. Watch the documentary. Know the TRUTH.
I am having my lady friend dress up as Santa tmrw, and I'm going to smash the shit out of Santa. That's a real Christmas. HAPPY HOLIDAZE, and a MERRRY - JUANA CHRISTMAAAAS!
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Yes. I'm not religious but I developed a better appreciation for Christianity while in college. Oddly enough this was from atheist, Hindu and Jain professors!
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