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| Ok for atheists/agnostics to celebrate typically religious holidays? |
| Sure, why not? |
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| I don't really agree with it, but it's not a big deal to me. |
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 Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:03 am
Just curious, do any of you still celebrate holidays like Christmas and Easter? I do, but solely for the family togetherness. Most of my family is Christian and don't have an issue with that. If you're religious, do you have a problem with nonbelievers celebrating your religion's holidays?
I know some atheists that treat holidays like any other day and ones that celebrate them in the manner that I do. No one's ever given me crap about it, although I've had friends ask if I'd prefer a "Happy Holidays" or a "Merry Christmas" card.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:18 am
Hm, I should've included nonreligious theists in the poll as well. Sorry. Didn't really think about it since this forum's mainly dedicated to atheism. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:28 am
This pickled vegetable...I celebrate Annual Winter Gift Giving. ... could kick your a** !!
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:19 am
It's almost non-American if I didn't celebrate Christmas...what with all the consumer ads and sales and santas wandering around. I don't think many people really understand or view Christmas as a Christian holiday. Just a day of exchanging gifts.
As for Easter...again non-American. The ads everywhere and sales on baskets and chocolate bunnies/chicks. Again not many understand that it was (for Catholics) the day Christ rose from the dead.
As for the saint days...I still celebrate St. Patty's like any good Irish descendent would, dressing in green and orange to keep both sides of Ireland happy. I don't really follow the Holy Days of Obligation though.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:50 am
pantherdor It's almost non-American if I didn't celebrate Christmas...what with all the consumer ads and sales and santas wandering around. I don't think many people really understand or view Christmas as a Christian holiday. Just a day of exchanging gifts. I'm sorry, but how is it "non-American" to NOT celebrate a holiday from one single specific religion? Yes, we are a capitalist society and as such will cash in as best we can on any holiday from any religion, but how is not celebrating Christmas specifically non-American?
Christmas is not the only gift giving holiday around that time. Are you saying that its not American to celebrate Channukah instead? Or what if you just exchange gifts in the "spirit of the season" with no religious connotations what so ever? Is that un-American?
How is it "non-American" to not celebrate Christmas? ... could kick your a** !!
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:01 am
Honestly, once the holiday celebrated looses most of it's religious connotations and becomes a different sort of animal altogether, I don't mind celebrating with my family.
For instance Christmas, there's a few people that still keep with the religious tradition of the holiday but honestly it's become more a time to exchange presents and for families to come together, I view it as Thanksgiving with ham instead of turkey and the added bonus of exchanging presents.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:26 am
Thanksgiving's always an interesting one for me, since I'm a vegetarian. xD
Anyhow, everyone feel free to expand on holidays from different religions. Christmas and Easter were just two examples I used to get the conversation started smile
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 11:09 am
Renkon Root pantherdor It's almost non-American if I didn't celebrate Christmas...what with all the consumer ads and sales and santas wandering around. I don't think many people really understand or view Christmas as a Christian holiday. Just a day of exchanging gifts. I'm sorry, but how is it "non-American" to NOT celebrate a holiday from one single specific religion? Yes, we are a capitalist society and as such will cash in as best we can on any holiday from any religion, but how is not celebrating Christmas specifically non-American?
Christmas is not the only gift giving holiday around that time. Are you saying that its not American to celebrate Channukah instead? Or what if you just exchange gifts in the "spirit of the season" with no religious connotations what so ever? Is that un-American?
How is it "non-American" to not celebrate Christmas? ... could kick your a** !! No and I'm sorry. I wasn't looking for an argument. Just stating what I noticed around my area. I can't go anywhere in town or out of it without seeing christmas trees. I know there are other holidays but they are the minority of that season in this part of the country. I sure I would see more of the other religions if I went to bigger cities.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:07 pm
Though my family is Catholic, Easter and Christmas are in no way religious to us.
Christmas = presents.
Easter = presents, candy. I actually got my belly ring done as an Easter present.
I'm vegetarian too but I still join in on Thanksgiving. My mom makes the most amazing mashed potatoes. *drools*
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 8:07 am
That's about the same for my family, Shiori.
My Thanksgiving is like, turkey for them and veggie burgers and tofu fried rice for me.
I want to hear from those who don't agree with nonreligious people celebrating holidays. No one's expressed that opinion in the thread yet, though some have in the poll.
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:30 pm
I am ashamed to admit that although I used to be Christian, Jesus just never was a big part of the holidays for me. It was all presents and candy and family, so nothing changed when I became Aethiest. How very materialistic spoiled brat of me... ah well, I blame America. My country corrupts me. xd (that would be sarcasm, please don't kill me.)
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:02 pm
Once my fiance and I get our own life together we are most likely going to celebrate the Solstices and probably Halloween, but a little differently. Our kids will still go trick or treating, but we will have meaning behind it all.
I recognize Christmas for my family, but I do not get all stupid with Santa's and snowmen. I just wrap their gift and give it to them on Christmas day. My family is not accepting of my being non-Christian. I have not said anything about being Paga. My brother likes to harass me about being a witch. And it gets nasty. We just had an arguement in front of my cousins and an aunt about my Ankh being a symbol for eternal life, not a witch sign..... But yea, I will be sending Season Greetings cards.
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:28 am
Ah, yes, Halloween. I will certainly be celebrating that one. Free candy, dressing up in cosplay, going to parties--who can resist? 3nodding
Silly, isn't it, when you think of how it used to be this awesome pagan festival for scaring away bad spirits and whatnot, right?
Oh, I remember Samhain... being a Wiccan was lovely. I always do conveniently forget that my mother hated me burning candles in my room. D:
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:54 am
I still do Christmas.
Growing up, Christmas had almost nothing to do with Jesus and almost everything to do with Santa and presents and cookies. XD
We throw a Christmas Eve party at my house every year, and I don't think a single person who comes is very religious. Only a few of them consider themselves Christian.
Easter was never super special for me growing up.
About Halloween, I'm already coming up with costume ideas. :3
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