Non-Christians Celebrating Christmas

[Kalli]

I agree heartily with all three posts.

I absolutely LOVE Christmas. It makes me so happy, I get so much joy out of it, it is my absolute favourite anything. I get as excited as a little kid about it, and I still wake up at 4am on Christmas day because I'm so goddamn hyper.

I hate Christianity.

Anyone who wants to give me crap about that can just piss right off.

[BroomJockey]

Some people think that people who do not follow the Christian faith are being hypocritical if they celebrate Christmas.

Anyone who pulls that shit with me just gets a lecture about how Christmas was a co-opted holiday anyways, and they should shut up before they embarrass themselves.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I'm an atheist, and I celebrate Christmas. Why? Cuz to me, it's a secular occasion to get together with family that I don't see very often. Anyone who bitched at me about not being Christian and celebrating Christmas would be told to take the candy cane out their arse and fuck off.

[guywithashovel]

This sometimes comes up on the other sites I frequent, so I thought I would bounce it off the Fratching crowd to see what they had to say about it.

Some people think that people who do not follow the Christian faith are being hypocritical if they celebrate Christmas. To some extent, I suppose a reasonable case can be made out of this. My family really isn't that religious, for the most part. In lieu of this, we have always celebrated Christmas together, so I admittedly never gave this issue much thought until a bunch of Evangelicals on the websites I frequent decided to make an issue out of it.

To get back to the topic, though, Christmas is so prevalent in our society that it's hard not to acknowledge it in one form or another. Also, Christmas really isn't that much of a religious holiday anymore, even though it did have religious origins. I would be willing to be that most people, Christian or not, are probably not giving much thought to the birth of Jesus, the three wise men, the manger, and Virgin Mary when they celebrate Christmas. If they're kids, they're probably wondering how many items from their mile-long Christmas lists they will find wrapped up underneath the Christmas tree when it's time to unwrap gifts. If they're adults, they're probably thinking about having time off from work and spending that time socializing with friends and/or at family get-togethers. If not that, then they're probably hoping that the airports don't give them TOO many headaches or wondering if they'll get through Christmas dinner without losing their tempers on their in-laws.

Anymore now, when some Evangelical gets worked up over non-Christians celebrating Christmas, I just ask them if they acknowledge the days of the week and months of the year.