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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take zero issue with anyone of any religion celebrating any part of Christmas- I love Christmas!  I do take serious issue with people saying "well I have a Christmas tree and do Santa because most Christmas stuff like that isn't religious anyways".  Look, hate to break it to you, but Christmas is a religious holiday.  It's the second holiest after Easter.  Do a tree if you want, do Elf on the Shelf, knock yourself out and have fun because it IS fun.  But don't justify it by demeaning our holiday in the process.  By participating in it while joking "well it's not like there was a Christmas tree at the birth of Jesus, it's just a fun decoration" is cultural appropriation, and rude.  [/quote]

I am a pagan and you have appropriated our culture with the decorated and lit evergreen tree and it is rude!  Stop this cultural appropriation!  [/quote]

Yes, you post this multiple times on every thread about Christmas.  Christmas celebrations absolutely have Pagan roots, from hundreds of years ago.  We get it.  I still stand by my entire post. [/quote]

I admire how you can hold contradictory beliefs in at once.[/quote]

Actually I'm completely agreeing that the Christmas celebration at/around the winter solstice borrows significantly from pagan tradition.  Unlike some on this thread who refuse to acknowledge that Christmas is a Christian holiday and that there is nothing wrong with setting up Christmas decorations, talking about Santa (who is, by the way, SAINT Nicholas- which is definitely Christian), and claiming that it's all secular and none of it is religious.  Celebrate and enjoy the magic of the season but don't go around telling people it's not a religious holiday and that's why it's okay for you to do it. It's definitely a religious holiday, and if you're not very devout in your own religion and you want to celebrate a Christian holiday too then there is totally nothing wrong with that.   [/quote]

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