do athiests..

[YAX]

celebrate christmas and or easter?

[Solemn Wind]

celebrate christmas and or easter?

Many Atheists have no problems celebrating Christmas and Easter. To them, it's no different from a white Christian guy attending the Hmong new year. It's all about fun and having a great time. As a matter of fact, your question reminds me of the many Christmas programs/event/parade that are being performed every year in New York City. Many of the people who made those events possible are Atheists...Ath eist Jews to be more specific.

On the other hand, millions of Christians in America and around the world ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to celebrate Christmas and Easter because they feel it has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity.

[DonJuan]

Many Atheists have no problems celebrating Christmas and Easter. To them, it's no different from a white Christian guy attending the Hmong new year. It's all about fun and having a great time. As a matter of fact, your question reminds me of the many Christmas programs/event/parade that are being performed every year in New York City. Many of the people who made those events possible are Atheists...Ath eist Jews to be more specific.

On the other hand, millions of Christians in America and around the world ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to celebrate Christmas and Easter because they feel it has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity.

Millions?
Better show me data!

There are millions who claim to be Christians.

[Gutts]

What happens in an Atheist funeral?

[Solemn Wind]

Millions?
Better show me data!

There are millions who claim to be Christians.

Dude, you are too retarded for me to even waste anymore time on some of your questions. It's becoming more and more like debating/arguing with PH's number one debater now.

But I still feel like I have to regarding your most stupid question. So even an ESTABLISHED RELIGION with millions of members such as the Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians? They just claim to be Christians? If that's the case, just who are the real and true Christians? The swarm of Catholics, the millions of Bible-thumping fundamentalist s, the millions of Mormons? Maybe it's Jim Jones' group or maybe it's the Teletubbyists? Someone like TheAfterLife, V8, or Hung_Low? Or do they just claim to be Christians as well. Maybe it's even pagans like you or maybe it's even me who are actually the real Christians? Just WHO are the true and real Christians?

Oh I get it? Basing on your reply, I assuming you don't consider the Jehovah's Witnesses to be true and real Christians? They just claim to be? If so, why? Because they don't believe in the Trinity? And the KKK Identity are real and true Christians because they believe in the Trinity? Just exactly what one has to believe to be considered a true and real Christian anyway?

[ToxicCum]

celebrate christmas and or easter?

All of them celebrate those two holidays...esp ecially Christmas. Lets not forget also, that Thanksgiving has christian influence along with Indian traditions. but media of modern day, has changed their once religious articles about Thanksgiving (and now even Christmas) to a non-christian bias report.

I do not agree with Solemns analysis that it would be similar to a white person going to a Hmong New Year. per, New Years are a celebration of traditions and culture and not about religion in bulk.

I, do not rally with the Buddhist's and their holidays.....I also do not rally with the Muslims and their holidays...nor do I gather with the Jews....I have never, not even once, have seen a shaman dance/dinner/or whatever you call the gather.....

Celebration of Christmas and Easter has been become popular to the general public and the core of these two holidays has been lost. As we near the years end, please note on news reports, that most, if not all, are required to not speak about the birth of Christ....they are instructed to only speak of shopping and the 'new' holiday spirit.......

now.......befo re politics get involved, many christians have different views on Christmas...ea ch to their own on how they interpret the Bible...so lets not go there....

[Hung_Low]

Many Atheists have no problems celebrating Christmas and Easter. To them, it's no different from a white Christian guy attending the Hmong new year. It's all about fun and having a great time. As a matter of fact, your question reminds me of the many Christmas programs/event/parade that are being performed every year in New York City. Many of the people who made those events possible are Atheists...Ath eist Jews to be more specific.

On the other hand, millions of Christians in America and around the world ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to celebrate Christmas and Easter because they feel it has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity.

Dude... again, your view are baseless... All christians celebrate Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter... but they celebrate it differently then Atheists and non-christian. Christmas is the birth of Christ, Thanksgiving is the Pilgrims' feast to thank God for their first year of survival in a new world, and Easter is the Resurrection of Christ. Only Atheists and non-christian associate Christmas to Santa, Thanksgiving to turkey and Easter to a rabbit.

To say that millions of Christian don't celebrate these holidays is the same as saying Muslim don't make their yearly pilgrimage to Mecca or that millions of Atheists celebrate Christ's birthday, Resurrection and they pray at Thanskgiving dinners.

[Solemn Wind]

Celebrating Christmas as we know it today is a very new phenomenon that only started within the last 200 years or so. As a matter of fact when the first Christians came to America, celebrating Christmas was outlawed because it was thought to be paganistic (and it is) and atheistic. Christmas is so big today, especially in the United States, is due to big business/commerce.

Japan is a country that is also very big into the Christmas spirit as well...yet, most of them probably have no clues as to how many Christians claim it to be the celebration of the birth of Christ. To the Japanese (unless they're Christians and not Jehovah Witnesses), it's all about culture and tradition...si milar to watching "American Idol" and going to "Black Friday" shopping. So many people are doing it and it looks like fun so why not join the fun?

[Solemn Wind]

Dude... again, your view are baseless... All christians celebrate Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter... but they celebrate it differently then Atheists and non-christian. Christmas is the birth of Christ, Thanksgiving is the Pilgrims' feast to thank God for their first year of survival in a new world, and Easter is the Resurrection of Christ. Only Atheists and non-christian associate Christmas to Santa, Thanksgiving to turkey and Easter to a rabbit.

To say that millions of Christian don't celebrate these holidays is the same as saying Muslim don't make their yearly pilgrimage to Mecca or that millions of Atheists celebrate Christ's birthday, Resurrection and they pray at Thanskgiving dinners.

So let me get this straight. JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ARE NOT CHRISTIANS? And no, Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate Christmas and Easter. Or they just celebrate Christmas and Easter differently from your kind of Christians?

[six]

Christmas was first a Pagan holiday long before it became a Christian holiday.  Jesus was not even remotely born near Christmas time.

Easter was first a Pagan holiday celebrating the spring equinox long before American Christians made it theirs.  True Christians around the world don't celebrate easter; they commemorate the passover.

Thanksgiving was NOT a Christian day of thanking God.  Google "thanksgiving myths" for leads.

[Hung_Low]

So let me get this straight. JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ARE NOT CHRISTIANS? And no, Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate Christmas and Easter. Or they just celebrate Christmas and Easter differently from your kind of Christians?

What is their doctrine? Find that out and you're find your answer...

[IB TIAM NEEJ]

Like for reals... what about Infidels? 

[Hung_Low]

Christmas was first a Pagan holiday long before it became a Christian holiday.  Jesus was not even remotely born near Christmas time.

Christmas was first coined in 1038 for "Christ's Mass"... your pagan theory didn't happened until the 18th century as proposed by Isaac Newton, for Roman's winter solstice.

Easter was first a Pagan holiday celebrating the spring equinox long before American Christians made it theirs.  True Christians around the world don't celebrate easter; they commemorate the passover.

Easter is associated with the Passover and Exodus from Egypt and it's been used before the writing of what the word "Easter" really meant by Bebe. It was already being used  for something else before Bebe wrote his book.

Thanksgiving was NOT a Christian day of thanking God.  Google "thanksgiving myths" for leads.

You are right if you consider each country celebrate Thanksgiving.. . they're not of Christian origin. And there were Thanksgiving celebration in other states as well before the Pilgrim did. But if you consider the origin of the Thanksgiving celebration of the U.S. as of today, it's tied to pilgrim having the feast to thank God for their survival of their first year in American. You can also trace Canada's Thanksgiving Day(which falls in a different month) to Canadian thanking God for safe voyage and good harvest

[8v10un30sun]

celebrate christmas and or easter?

 

[Great Sage]

Most people celebrate Christmas and Easter as tradition; not necessarily as religious holidays. It's about giving and coming together... And the Christian undertones are usually ignored by those who aren't Christians.

Which brings us to another point: Christmas is really a pagan holiday that was introduced by the Romans, and Easter is from Babylonian pagan worship.