A Sincere Question about Secular Christmas

Anonymous
It's June OP.

Also, unless it is a family member insisting you celebrate Christmas with them, almost no one does this. I don't care what my friends and neighbors celebrate.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Well, OP, you're certainly getting chastised for saying that people in your life appear to be insisting that you celebrate Christmas.

There's also New Year's to think about. Do you realize that it's the Feast of the Circumcism? THat's right -- Jesus, like all good Jewish boys at that time, was circumcised a week after his birth. New Years day is the feast of the circumcism, meaning it's a holy day of obligation for Catholics, which means you go to hell if you miss Church that day, which means a lot of Catholics are going to hell, unless they confess missing mass that day. I was shocked to learn that New Years day was also a Holy Day.

Luckily I'm not a Catholic anymore -- am an atheist who celebrates a secular Christmas.


Christmas Day is also a holy day of obligation, which I didn't realize til I was a teenager. My parents never went to church that day.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Never heard anyone do this, maybe ask whomever in your life acts like this because it’s not normal.


Is it this lady? Because you can ignore her
Anonymous
OP I am still trying to understand your question.
Is it that you follow a different religion and are commenting on people who think St Nick or Rudolph are "for everyone" and you should think so too?

Why would you want to go to a religious or secular party focused on a holiday that you feel harassed by?
Anonymous
19:12 again.
DH does not celebrate Christmas or other Christian holidays. I do.
We have a wreath on the door.
Our cards say Peace or Seasons Greetings or Happy New Year depending on what design I like that year.
He will eat a chocolate bunny if I get them for us.
He gets 8 presents for Hanukah.
I don't get a Christmas present since my mother dies and admit that makes me sad.
Neither of us goes to religious services.
I am a believer and pray. I am not sure what his private beliefs are.

Anonymous
I need more information. Who did this ? Was it family, a neighbor, a kid’s mom? I’m trying to imagine this conversation and I’m drawing a blank.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:19:12 again.
DH does not celebrate Christmas or other Christian holidays. I do.
We have a wreath on the door.
Our cards say Peace or Seasons Greetings or Happy New Year depending on what design I like that year.
He will eat a chocolate bunny if I get them for us.
He gets 8 presents for Hanukah.
I don't get a Christmas present since my mother dies and admit that makes me sad.
Neither of us goes to religious services.
I am a believer and pray. I am not sure what his private beliefs are.



Your husband's a total jerk if, knowing you don't have relatives left alive to get you something at Christmas, he doesn't pick up the slack.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:19:12 again.
DH does not celebrate Christmas or other Christian holidays. I do.
We have a wreath on the door.
Our cards say Peace or Seasons Greetings or Happy New Year depending on what design I like that year.
He will eat a chocolate bunny if I get them for us.
He gets 8 presents for Hanukah.
I don't get a Christmas present since my mother dies and admit that makes me sad.
Neither of us goes to religious services.
I am a believer and pray. I am not sure what his private beliefs are.



You're a "believer" who prays but doesn't go to church?? And don't know what your husband believes?? And you get upset about not getting a Christmas present????

You sound more superstitious and culturally Christian than religious.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:19:12 again.
DH does not celebrate Christmas or other Christian holidays. I do.
We have a wreath on the door.
Our cards say Peace or Seasons Greetings or Happy New Year depending on what design I like that year.
He will eat a chocolate bunny if I get them for us.
He gets 8 presents for Hanukah.
I don't get a Christmas present since my mother dies and admit that makes me sad.
Neither of us goes to religious services.
I am a believer and pray. I am not sure what his private beliefs are.



Your husband's a total jerk if, knowing you don't have relatives left alive to get you something at Christmas, he doesn't pick up the slack.


He's not a jerk if they don't otherwise celebrate Christmas and most of all if pp hasn't told him that she wants a Christmas present.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:19:12 again.
DH does not celebrate Christmas or other Christian holidays. I do.
We have a wreath on the door.
Our cards say Peace or Seasons Greetings or Happy New Year depending on what design I like that year.
He will eat a chocolate bunny if I get them for us.
He gets 8 presents for Hanukah.
I don't get a Christmas present since my mother dies and admit that makes me sad.
Neither of us goes to religious services.
I am a believer and pray. I am not sure what his private beliefs are.



Your husband's a total jerk if, knowing you don't have relatives left alive to get you something at Christmas, he doesn't pick up the slack.

And stop getting him
Hanukkah gifts!
Anonymous
Secular Christmas here is vulgar. It has been commercialized for economic purposes - gift giving is relentlessly pushed on us by media.
And all those Xmas cards with the family's children pictured on them... this started happening around the 90's? Because it wasn't a thing when I was growing up. At best a card with a mass printed update on how the family was doing. I'm not Christian but when did Christmas become a pageantry about the self, when did it co-opt the holy family? Next thing you know nativity figurines which can be customized to the family's likeness will be on the market.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:19:12 again.
DH does not celebrate Christmas or other Christian holidays. I do.
We have a wreath on the door.
Our cards say Peace or Seasons Greetings or Happy New Year depending on what design I like that year.
He will eat a chocolate bunny if I get them for us.
He gets 8 presents for Hanukah.
I don't get a Christmas present since my mother dies and admit that makes me sad.
Neither of us goes to religious services.
I am a believer and pray. I am not sure what his private beliefs are.



You're a "believer" who prays but doesn't go to church?? And don't know what your husband believes?? And you get upset about not getting a Christmas present????

You sound more superstitious and culturally Christian than religious.


You sound like a snake handling hillbilly, lol. One can pray alone. Jesus did.
Unity Church.

My husband is very private. I don't know much about his family either.

Anonymous
It’s June. Summer. It’s vacation season. Kids are out of school.

People are going to the beach, on cruises. Getting in the pool. Bar-b-que and watermelon.

Not op. It’s Christmas. Forced Christmas. G-d help her.
Anonymous
As a Christian who doesn't do Santa with my kids (but yes, we told them not to tell the other kids), I would never ever force Santa on another family. That's...absurd.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Secular Christmas here is vulgar. It has been commercialized for economic purposes - gift giving is relentlessly pushed on us by media.
And all those Xmas cards with the family's children pictured on them... this started happening around the 90's? Because it wasn't a thing when I was growing up. At best a card with a mass printed update on how the family was doing. I'm not Christian but when did Christmas become a pageantry about the self, when did it co-opt the holy family? Next thing you know nativity figurines which can be customized to the family's likeness will be on the market.


You aren’t a Christian, but think Joesph, Mary, and Baby Jesus are the “Holy Family?”

How does a non-Christian believe that Joesph, Mary, and Jesus are holy?

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