I know that people with a spouse, or a parent, who celebrate both if one of them celebrates one of them.
But everyone in my family celebrates Christmas.
I like Christmas too, not as much as when I was a little kid though. But I don’t exactly want to celebrate it, but whatever. It’s a nice holiday.
It’s not a Christan holiday, so it’s possible, right?
Yes, it is.
My boyfriend and I want to celebrate Christmas next week just for fun since we have nothing else better to do on the weekends. So we want to bake christmas cookies in shapes and frosting, put on loud christmas music and get in our best christmas head gear. I want to do something else also to spice up our "fake" christmas, Any suggestions?
Put on a santa ooutfit, you can be misses and santa clause. get pine scented candles and white fluff to pose as snow
I noticed every single question in this section is about gifts. Is there anything else to this holiday or is gifts pretty much it? Would you even celebrate Christmas if it wasn’t for the gifts?
Honestly, no. Basically, Christmas isn’t just about the presents. Though, I wouldn’t celebrate it without presents. That’s my opinion!
How do the Japanese celebrate Christmas in Japan and is it a public holiday?
Will there be Christmas sales at major shopping centres ?
Pretty much like they do Halloween.It’s just a time to get together with friends and family & have a good time.Many people don’t do anything special at all.Most Japanese are Buddhist / Shinto, so the day has no special meaning to them.
Malls do have Christmas decorations up, but I’m not sure of any Christmas sales.Universal Studios has some Christmas lights up right now.
No, it’s not a public holiday.The birth of Christ has no meaning to most Japanese people.
As an atheist, I think when I have my own family we will not celebrate Christmas, as it is religious and I would prefer my home to be secular.
Does anyone here celebrate a nonreligious winter?
Yes, you can honor the Winter Solstice. Light candles on the night of the solstice to celebrate the sun’s return. Presents were given at this time of year long before Christmas came around. Celebration in the midst of winter is something that has been done from time immemorial. No reason why you can’t simply celebrate a ‘Winter Holiday’ and enjoy the non-religious themes of gratitude, kindness, generosity, family and friends.
Why do atheists celebrate christmas and other religious holidays?
I have seen lots of people who have claimed to be an athiest and say christian and catholic religion is all faulse and not true, but yet they celebrate christmas, infact one person who i know if a big atheist but yet at christmas greeted me merry christmas?
I don’t get atheists, they say they are but yet they celebrate religious holidays, whats your take on all this?
Indeed – they sure do! Why wouldn’t they? =)
How christmas is celebrate in Gwermany?
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The nuclear family gathers on Dec. 24 and has some sort of meal (very often fish). We put the presents under the christmas tree, around sundown, then we sing songs and unpack the gifts. We don’t have santa claus (although it has swapped over from the us), but a "Christkind," (either an angel or, really, a kid jesus, but I am not really sure…embarassingly). If kids are around, they have to wait outside the room until the "christkind" rings a bell, that means he was there and they can now unpack the gifts.
On Dec. 25 there is usually another gathering of family and friends, with a larger meal.
my mother and i have been having this argument weither to have it on christmas eve or christmas day. which day do you celebrate it? or which way is the correct traditional way to?
Both — because we host European students and THEY celebrate on the 24th.
So, we have a "sit down" fancy dinner on Christmas Eve with their traditional foods. Then we open any gifts from Europe and their family that night, plus our stockings.
On Christmas morning, we open our "American" presents and then have a more relaxed Christmas dinner around the tree.
There is no RIGHT or WRONG answer — compromise! Why ruin Christmas with such a silly argument?
Why do atheists and people who are not religious celebrate Jesus’s birthday? Why do they put up decorations and buy presents? I think Christmas is now officially just commercial. For the most part. Most people that celebrate it don’t give a (expletive) about Jesus’s birthday, but just want presents and to sell stuff. Why do atheists and non-religious people still celebrate the birth of Christ?
I agree that Christmas has really just become a buy me holiday where people think of lists of presents. I think that non-religious people celebrate christmas not because it represents the birth of Christ but because christmas is the joining of christian and pagan traditions. What does a tree, lights, and santa have to do with the birth of a Jesus. In the Roman times to unite the people the cesar combined the two. So I suppose that Christmas really has two meanings but the main focus is Christ is born, or at least it should be.
Every year around this time, people ask me, what you are doing for christmas. Then i tell them i am a DEIST and i dont believe in that stuff. Then you see their mouth drop and they can’t believe it. "You dont celebrate christmas?"
AAAH Ignorance, never seems to go away.
I’m with you I wouldn’t celebrate christmas if it wasn’t for my 7 year old.Her dad and I can not wait for her to turn 18 so we don’t have to do christmas anymore.