Celebrate

Well, first of all, it’s very recommandable to fast the day of Achoura, plus the day before or the day after. It’s also recommandable to pray and read verses of the Coran.
Kids get benefit from that celebration to get toys and new clothes from their arents and relatives, they also play with fireworks (not very wise) and water balloons. But Achoura is not a religious celebration like Aid kebir and Aid el fitr. It’s just a commemoration of the day when Moses and his followers flew from Pharaoh’s anger. It’s important to know that it’s both a muslim and a jewish celebration, this is to prove that Muhammas (PBUH) came to finish and correct the job already done by the previous prophets.

with the cross, raising from the dead, forgiveness of sins or do you go more towards the pagan celebration with the bunnies & eggs.
See Ask.com http://altreligion.about.com/cs/alchemy/a/mpreviss.htm
& Suite101.com http://paganismwicca.suite101.com/article.cfm/pagan_roots_of_easter_customs

I dont celebrate it.
I’m just in it for the Creamy Eggs!!!

October 1 is World Vegetarian Day, and October is World Vegetarian Restaurant Month. How do you plan to celebrate these events?

http://vegdining.com/WorldVegetarianRestaurantMonth/

Well I had never heard of these events but I suppose going out to dinner at a vegetarian restaurant would be the thing to do.

To Christians…Christmas is suppose to be a day of worshiping the birth of Chris (which is call Chris-mas), and the meaning now today is gone. All we do now is think about Santa Claus, Chrismas trees, and presents when it should be about Christ. It was a ancient Holiday traditions put together. It actually didn’t become a Holiday in America till the early 1800’s. I like to know what you think about Christmas. Should we still celebrate chrismas b/c it’s tradition? Even if it’s for our children’s enjoyment, everything behind is based on pagan cults and beliefs on feritility and sacrifice. Not only that, the birth of Jesus wasn’t even in December. Should it still be carried down, just for the fun of it? I think it’s leading our Christian values to be spirtuality blind,… could it be a way of satan trying to decieve us.? The Bible even warns us about:
http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=2561

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_trees
http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/T
In Jeremiah 10:3-5, "For the customs of the people are vain: for it is but a tree which one cutteth out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not, … neither … is it in them to do good."
I agree with some of you that Chrismas is about getting together and enjoying what we have. Santa Claus is an idol (a misrepresentation of God, judge them if their good or bad) to kids to look up to, they get rewarded by a magical man to give them presents, and when we tell them there is no Santa. What is going to happen? What was the reason in the first place? They are going to feel mistrust toward their parents and to what they’re taught. They are going to doubt their beliefs and even fall out of their Christianity or not take as serious as they should. Then they don’t go to church or even read the Bible, because it looked at as fables like Santa, not a manuel to your life
Here’s some more about if Christian should worship Chrismas in the way that they do. Really a lot of this is adding up. It comes down to, that the bible teaches us how strict our Lord, and we sometime ignore them, which means we don’t believe in Christ but Material things, but shouldn’t make us happy or justicfied to go to heaven. We know the Commandments and Jesus’s teachings, And I ask What Would Jesus Do (WWJD)? I don’t think he would approve of it, He teaches us the what is right and to accept the truth, but we are spirually blind and sinners. No one is good, but God, and doing what God want for us is first. The scriptures have said to be aware of our culture and do not do what others do, but walk with God and love Him, if you love Him you would turn away from sins or temptations because you would know it hurts God, and believe in his word and truely hold it.

http://www.ucgstp.org/lit/booklets/holidays/vsbible.html

http://www.nisbett.com/holidays/christmas.htm

Christmas does not even have its roots in Christian tradition. It was originally a pagan holiday that the Catholic Church took over to try and root out paganism. Does that mean Christians should not celebrate it? Certainly not! Whether or not Christmas has any historical connection to Christ’s birth is irrelevant. Christmas has come to be a symbol of Christ’s incarnation, and there is nothing wrong with celebrating a it on symbolic grounds. God doesn’t care which day we pick to remember the incarnation. Of course we should educate our children and tell them Christmas is a symbol and not the actual day of Christ’s birth. As long as we do not misrepresent it to our children, I see absolutely no problem here.

Yes, people celebrate halloween to have a good time and have fun.

But how do adults celebrate halloween different from children? What types of costumes are the most popular? Just curious.

The kids celebrate it by going trick-or-treating and eating lots of candy. Adults celebrate it by going to parties, haunted attractions, watching movies, and other events.

Here’s an article that talks about popular costumes:
http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/02/news/economy/halloween_costumes/index.htm

OK. Nobody knows when Jesus was born, and whether He was born at all, and He’s not just a personification of the Sun. But Christians could celebrate jesus‘ birthday closer to spring. Why don’t they do it?
@Pryncess: even if it was in the fall. Why in December?

christianity was attempting to supplant paganism in europe. pagans celebrated the winter solstice as a major yearly event. that event occurs very near what is now xmas. xmas was put there to compete with the solstice, to give converts a holiday to celebrate at the ‘right’ time of year, while discouraging their pagan rituals. the date is completely arbitrary, and has no connection to the actual day on which jesus may or may not have been born. clear?

My little brother is doing a project about how people celebrate christmas in other countries and he chose Egypt and we can’t find anything about that. So I want to be a good sister and help him. so if you people who read this Help?!?!?!

Well we start of by saying Christamx day is on the 7th of january, in Egypt. as most Egyptian christians here are Orthodox,,know as Coptic Orthodox,..they pretty much do what other people do around the world,,Xmas tree, Santa,,aka Baba Nowel, church on christmas day, feast, family, peace happinese,.. and yeah,,we got no snow here.

Just curious how you all would take it if you were wished a happy Kwanza like 10-20 times per week.

It would get a little old after a while but I wouldn’t mind.

Our desks always look so dull and boring, i’d like to brighten mine with an Easter theme

This article has tips for decorating this Easter. It specifically talks about your apartment/home, but you can easily have them apply to your work environment!

http://apartments.typepad.com/my_pad/2008/03/5-tips-for-east.html

If you look into it those traditions you are celebrating are actually Pagan traditions. the church changed the name but all details are still pagan doing.
you look into it those traditions you are celebrating are actually Pagan traditions. the church changed the name but all details are still pagan doing.

Changing the name does not make it right, A pine tree would not become a palm tree just because we named it so. God once said that we should not walk wth the other nations (what they are doing that are detestable/dirty in his eyes). These traditions are still dirty in his eyes right?

I believe celebrating these stuff is still pagan, you don’t pick a dirty candy from the gutter and eat it do you?
particularly for yellow_taxi: you should! December 25 is originally Saturnalia, the Roman summer solstice! Jesus would not have been born on a cold night like that.

Easter is a feast for the goddess Ashtare so’s the name….Jesus did not have bunnies and eggs when he rose from the dead, those were fertility symbol offered for the goddess.

This is for the last answerer that bashed the questioner. He admits that Jesus said to keep the Lord’s evening meal in remembrance of him.

The bible also says at 1 Corinthians 10;20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.

21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

So we should all be well aware of where and how the traditions we celebrate came from. I hate to have to explain this , but Michael jackson disassociated himself from the witnesses a long time ago. His mother is one , but not his father. His actions are his own and perhaps the problem has been that he became so famous and the public turned him into a god , just like they did to elvis and other famous celebrities. You can bash any religion for what their members do, but as a whole the witnesses are law abiding , peaceful citizens who try to show a good example, not just for their preaching but for their actions too.