Anonymous
Post 12/28/2013 09:34     Subject: Re:Non- Christians celebrating Christmas
That tears it. Next year, my atheist family will not celebrate Christmas. We will celebrate Newton's Birthday on December 24, 2013 and the Winter Solstice on December 22. We will have a tree, and presents, and twinkly lights, and apple pie for Newton.

Happy now, OP?
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2013 09:32     Subject: Non- Christians celebrating Christmas
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think I'll start celebrating the high holy days and Diwali and EID, what the heck? Lets all celebrate everyone's religious holidays. It could be fun! Gifts and big meals and ordering the house with all the religious or cultural symbols off them all. Woo-hoo! Parities year round.


Let's go. Diwali looks pretty fun, and Chinese New Year, and Hogmany, and May Day, and Juneteenth, and Day of the Dead, and Mardi Gras and Bastille Day.

Also, it's a serious holiday, but I always liked Yom Kippur, because of the atonement aspects.


Indian Hindu here. Seriously Diwali has nothing on Holi. The festival of color and marijuana spiked drinks. I suggest if we all are partying through out the year, we include Holi as the most happening and wild and frat-worthy party in the world. Also Mardi Gras.


Please can we get rid of the serious ones where we have to fast etc.?




Okay, Yom Kippur is out Holi and Mardi Gras are in.

Anonymous
Post 12/28/2013 09:28     Subject: Re:Non- Christians celebrating Christmas
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm an atheist who was raised Catholic. My entire family is Catholic. My DH was raised Catholic. My DH's family is Catholic.

Our families celebrate Christmas. We celebrate it, too. It's within our cultural heritage. We are secular Catholics, the way some people are secular Jews.

I don't see what's weird about it.


It contradicts your commitment to atheism? That's what's weird. Atheists shouldn't celebrate the birth of a deity.


Do you have a tree? Hopefully not, since that is a Pagan tradition, and not at all Christian.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2013 07:23     Subject: Re:Non- Christians celebrating Christmas
As a Christian I believe that God gave us his only living son to help us learn to love one another and see in everyone that of Jesus. In this spirit, let's try to find common ground, rather than focusing on differences. Let's welcome all to celebrate Christmas in the way they see fit with a tree, lights, carols, feasting, reaching out to friends and family who are far away, and sharing our time, treasure and talents with those who are less fortunate than we are. Let's pray -- again, in all faiths -- that we live this spirit every day and not only at Christmas.

And, BTW, just as some non-Christians have adopted Christmas traditions, our family has adopted the tradition of a Friday night seder and I have adopted Yom Kippur as a day to reflect on and pray about forgiveness. And now, I'm going to get down from the pulpit and see if there's just a wee bit of eggnog left in the 'frig to make myself an eggnog latte -- a holiday tradition that I'm sure we can all get behind.

Happy holidays, all, and best wishes for peace in the new year!
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2013 03:42     Subject: Re:Non- Christians celebrating Christmas
We are atheists raising atheist kids and we love Christmas. I love it a lot more now than I did when I was a kid in a very Catholic family.

Also, I think the idea of raising kids in a faith you outright don't believe is bizarre. I wish I could have back the years in which I struggled to make sense of what people in my church said was literally gospel truth that I always knew at some level wasn't true. I would rather have had honesty. Atheism was such a balm to me.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2013 15:00     Subject: Non- Christians celebrating Christmas
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/23/muslim-christmas-celebrations/4182087/

Muslims celebrating Christmas.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2013 06:52     Subject: Non- Christians celebrating Christmas
Anonymous wrote:I celebrate the coming of Santa Clause on Christmas. So no, I don't think it is strange. What I find strange is celebrating the birth of Christ in the middle of winter when the bible indicates he was born in summer or fall.


You are answering yourself, PP. On Christmas you celebrate the birth and longevity of Santa Claus.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2013 00:32     Subject: Non- Christians celebrating Christmas
Anonymous wrote:OP your question has been answered. You don't accept the answers. I guess you will continue to be confused.


Anonymous
Post 12/27/2013 00:08     Subject: Non- Christians celebrating Christmas
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think I'll start celebrating the high holy days and Diwali and EID, what the heck? Lets all celebrate everyone's religious holidays. It could be fun! Gifts and big meals and ordering the house with all the religious or cultural symbols off them all. Woo-hoo! Parities year round.


Let's go. Diwali looks pretty fun, and Chinese New Year, and Hogmany, and May Day, and Juneteenth, and Day of the Dead, and Mardi Gras and Bastille Day.

Also, it's a serious holiday, but I always liked Yom Kippur, because of the atonement aspects.


Indian Hindu here. Seriously Diwali has nothing on Holi. The festival of color and marijuana spiked drinks. I suggest if we all are partying through out the year, we include Holi as the most happening and wild and frat-worthy party in the world. Also Mardi Gras.


Please can we get rid of the serious ones where we have to fast etc.?