Most Christan holidays are co-opted pagan celebrations. Easter is the celebration of spring hence the chicks and bunnies and eggs, all symbols of new life. Christmas and the tradition of bringing evergreens into the home are the winter solstice celebration. Christians can’t steal peoples holidays and then complain that non-christians celebrate them.
Celebrating these holidays without being Christan is actually standing up against thousands of years of forced conversion tactics.
On the flip side I’ve never met a loud and outspoken Christian that didn’t celebrate Christmas.
You know, since it’s a stolen Holliday used as a yearly excuse for a capitalism orgy.
Christmas is a pagan holiday co-opted by Christians. Christmas is most definitely a secular tradition in the US and there is nothing unusual about an atheist celebrating it.
What is unusual is Christians trying to bring Christ into the celebration when the timing just doesn’t make any sense. Was he actually born during this time? Where does he fit in with Santa Claus? Why do we bring a tree indoors? What about Jesus equals buying gifts to give to loved ones?
Clearly Jesus doesn’t belong in Christmas no matter how hard Christians try to pretend he does.
As usual, a brain-dead “Gotcha” from the indoctrinated falls flat.
@Doomsider all the so-called Christian holidays are actually pagan occasions.
@codewizard
What does pagan even mean, living in a world where solstices exist?
Nice
It’s very very hard to just sit out a major holiday like that. It’s a time to see family, hang out with friends.
You go to work on Monday? Then clearly you worship Luna. Right? See how stupid this comparison is.
No
Sounds like you haven’t met very many of them.
Most atheists keep the holidays they grew up with. Atheists who were raised Jewish celebrate hannakah.
No but we celebrate December To Remember in this house 🌲
You think Xmas is a religious holiday? LOL.
Hee hee
Merry Festivus
Nice to meet you. I told all my family to stop buying me presents and that I would stop buying them presents and that I’m not celebrating a holiday I don’t believe in. The holidays are a lot less stressful.
Nobody gonna turn down a day off
I’m an atheist and I celebrate all kinds of holidays. Because campy traditions are silly and fun.
Also, time off work AND I get to eat and drink too much. Fine by me.
TBF I can only do the actual church part if I’m stoned enough to privately commune with 4 billion years of ancestors
Hell yeah
What’s been your favorite non-Abrahamic, non-local celebration?
Halloween?
New years?
Gang shit
I’ve never met a pro-lifer that didn’t celebrate their day of birth instead of their day of conception.
Oooo goteeem, roasted their ass, so cool.
Most Atheists use it as a gift-giving holiday.
I’ve met very few people, Christians included, who actually celebrated it as the birth of Christ. They just do gift exchanges, too.
I have celebrated Hanukkah with a Jewish family once. That was very interesting. My father dated a Jewish woman for about a year or so. Very religious. Never tried to convert us. They had some interesting ways about them. I was like 10 or 11, I don’t remember much. I remember potato pancakes, I remember they got lame presents every night for seven days (or nine? Whatever it is). It’s not like multiple Christmases. Whole different holiday.
We mainly use it to exchange gifts.
Most Atheists use it as a gift-giving holiday.
I’ve met very few people, Christians included, who actually celebrated it as the birth of Christ. They just do gift exchanges, too.
Yeah, that’s it for me, too. Time with family eating yummy food and playing games, and exchanging gifts. Zero mention of anything religious by anyone.
It’s funny because, to religiously conquer the pagans, Christians co-opted their holidays. There’s a bit more to the St Nicholas legend than we observe, but it’s amusing that outside of Nativity scenes at churches, we mostly just celebrate Santa Claus on Christmas.
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Off both times. I should have remembered the name of Adam Sandler’s movie (standup special?) Eight Crazy Nights, though I’ve never seen it. Wife is a fan, she had me get it for her.
Thats cool
