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honesty&wisdom
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 Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject: an agnostic/atheist christmas? |
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| for a long time i considered myself a christian, then i started to consider myself agnostic. now i'm finding myself lying somewhere between being agnostic and being atheist. throughout a lot of turmoil in my childhood, the one part that was always happy was christmas. my parents weren't fighting, my sisters and i weren't bickering. strangers on the street were nice for no reason at all. those were some of the only truly happy times in my life. once i ceased my association with christianity about 10 years ago, i stopped celebrating christmas and i actually found myself getting depressed that time of year becauase all i could think about was how happy the holidays used to be compared to now with my family pretty much warring with one another. anyway my son is about to turn 1 and despite my lack of a religious affiliation i want his father and i to have a traditional christmas with gifts, tree, lights, and the works. i want to do this to create the magic for my current family that i shared with my family when i was a child. and even though he won't remember this particular christmas, i want my son to grow up with the same happiness and joyfulness that kids all over have on december 25th. does it seem awkward or wrong for someone such as myself that doesn't even know if she believes in god (let alone baby jesus, wise men, etc.) to want to celebrate such a pagan/religious day? |
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Colette Pioline
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Christmas in America is hardly a Christian holiday. And the pagans won't mind. I promise. Celebrate away! Have a joyous time! Make many great memories! |
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Peter
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Happy Winter Solstice |
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interested1208
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| You don't need to be religious to enjoy a holiday... I'm Atheist and enjoy the Christmas season every year...It's not just for Christians you know... |
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Ark
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| christmas is very commercialized now and barley recognized as a christian holiday, it isn't pagan anymore despite being based off of pagan traditions and morals. it is now a fun holiday for people to celebrate so go ahead and have some good memories |
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LustLife
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| "and i to have a traditional christmas with gifts, tree, lights, and the works"This is not a traditional Christian celebration, this is commercial Christmas - chill out.x |
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I'm gonna sing the doom s
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| You don't need a religion for family togetherness. Celebrate away! |
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Kathleen
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think it's wrong to celebrate Christmas when you're not Christian. I'm an atheist, &when I'm older one day &have my own family, I'm still gonna celebrate Christmas. It's fun to give people presents &getting presents from other people, you know? It's just the season of giving. I would say GO FOR IT. I mean, I'm Filipino, &I get all excited on St. Patrick's Day. It's a holiday too, why not celebrate it? |
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Dominick D
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Yule is a winter festival historically celebrated primarily in northern Europe but now celebrated in many other countries in various forms. Yule celebrations often coincide with Christmas. Modern Yule traditions include decorating a fir or spruce tree, burning a Yule log, hanging mistletoe and holly branches, giving gifts, and general celebration and merriment........Yule celebrations at the winter solstice predate Christianity. Yule is a feast celebrated by sacrifice on mid winter night 12 January, according to Norwegian historian Olav Bø. [7] There are many references to Yule in the Icelandic sagas but few accounts of how Yule was celebrated beyond the fact it was a time for feasting. According to Adam of Bremen, Swedish kings sacrificed male slaves every ninth year during the Yule sacrifices at the Temple at Uppsala. 'Yule-Joy' with dancing continued through the Middle Ages in Iceland but was frowned upon after the Reformation. The ritual of slaughtering a boar on Yule survives in the modern tradition of the Christmas ham and the Boar's Head Carol.Celebrate away!!!EDIT: Dr. Q please get you're facts straight Halloween is NOT a satanic Holiday it is Pagan just as X-Mas (Yule) is. |
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Dr. Q
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not a satanist, but I still give away candy on Halloween. Merry Christmas! |
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Jenster
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I think most people do that.What does Santa Clause and 8 reindeer have to do with the birth of Christ (that most agree was in the spring anyway)?and visa versa.It would be easy to take Christ out of the "Holiday Season" as this country has already done so.The difficult part is focusing it on Christ (if you are a Christian) instead of being sucked into the commercialized gift gorge that is Christmas today.perhaps you hit a button, sorry,I know the magic that has to do with Christmas. Having spent a few years living with a JW I also know what it is like to pass the season with no twinking christmas tree, or the smell of pine in your home, or the excitement on Christmas eve that has nothing to do with how many presents were under the tree, but just the magic of it all. |
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Shiori_hime
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Not at all. Celebrate any holiday you want as far as I'm concerned. You can have all the decorated trees/gifts/cookies/happy wintery songs you want, since (with the exceptions of religious carols) there's not much specifically Christian about those things anyway. Keep in mind too that there's nothing specifically religious about lots of aspects of the holiday. Christians aren't the only ones who want peace on Earth, after all. I see no reason why you can't just have a happy holiday time to break up the monotony of winter and bring some extra magic into your family life, or have a holiday that involves decorations and gifts and finding ways to advance peace on Earth, or whatever else you want the holiday to be. |
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