Why Do You Celebrate Christmas ?

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Blue Mist

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Unless you are religious why would you celebrate a day you care nothing about ? I do not go to church and I do not believe in any god so why would I celebrate the fact someone was (possibly) born a long time ago.
Also, children aside, what is all this buying presents shite ? I want a Mercedes 250 sports but I don't suppose my missus can afford to buy me that so I will get something from her that I can afford to buy myself..... but she will buy me something I don't want ( a bread maker, a concrete dog, yet another iPad)

Before anyone starts calling me a miserable old FOC, I don't celebrate Eid Mubarak, Yom Kippur or any other religious day so why celebrate Christmas ?

This is not an attack on those posters that do believe by the way, it is an attack on the two faced ones who don't believe but still celebrate.
 
Blue Mist said:
Unless you are religious why would you celebrate a day you care nothing about ? I do not go to church and I do not believe in any god so why would I celebrate the fact someone was (possibly) born a long time ago.
Also, children aside, what is all this buying presents shite ? I want a Mercedes 250 sports but I don't suppose my missus can afford to buy me that so I will get something from her that I can afford to buy myself..... but she will buy me something I don't want ( a bread maker, a concrete dog, yet another iPad)

Before anyone starts calling me a miserable old FOC, I don't celebrate Eid Mubarak, Yom Kippur or any other religious day so why celebrate Christmas ?

This is not an attack on those posters that do believe by the way, it is an attack on the two faced ones who don't believe but still celebrate.
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Growing up it confused me why Anti-Christian atheists I knew at school would celebrate Christmas. But then I remember that this was still a very religious county until not TOO long ago, so I Imagine whether religion matters or not it's kind of entrenched in national tradition. I know Jews and Muslims who celebrate it these days. Which I guess is nice as it displays cultural integration is strong.

Quite frankly though I think it's just a convenient excuse to put out shit TV, shit food, and not give presents to people all year round so we can just do all the good stuff on one day.
 
Because "Christmas" and the celebrations surrounding it, actually hail from the germanic celebration of Yule.

The tree, the exchanging of gifts, 12 days, the feasting, the drinking, decorating one's home, the kindly old man who delivers gifts to good children, kissing under the mistletoe, yule logs (clue) all of it.

The Christians added the "Nativity Story" and voila, it's seen as "their" holiday now, but for those who aren't Christians, the celebrations are still pertinent to traditions that go back aeons.

It's the tradition of european peoples that goes back 3,000 years and we still keep to at this time of year when it gets colder and darker for longer.

The only thing "Christian" about the traditions and celebrations of Christmas, is the story of Jesus. That is it.
 
Cos SWMBO told me I have to, despite me telling her it was an over-commercialised benefit day for a struggling retail industry
 
Mëtal Bikër said:
Because "Christmas" and the celebrations surrounding it, actually hail from the germanic celebration of Yule.

The tree, the exchanging of gifts, 12 days, the feasting, the drinking, decorating one's home, the kindly old man who delivers gifts to good children, all of it.

The Christians added the "Nativity Story" and voila, it's seen as "their" holiday now, but for those who aren't Christians, the celebrations are still pertinent to traditions that go back aeons.



It's the tradition of european peoples that goes back 3,000 years and we still keep to at this time of year when it gets colder and darker for longer.

The only thing "Christian" about the traditions and celebrations of Christmas, is the story of Jesus. That is it.
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Now that is my kind of reply. It means I can still eat too much, drink plenty and give people crap presents and it has nothing to do with god. Nice one and thanks for educating me, I honestly did not know that...….. mind you germans you say hmmmmmm.
 
I celebrate christmas because I get to do my usual job for double the pay and a day back, and love boxing day for the same reason. Then I go on holiday in February with the money once the pay lands in the bank and have a total blow out with my mates in winter sun. Apart from the fuss, drunken office twats, traffic jams, false expressions of affection in mass produced cards, the spiralling debt for folk who cant afford it but feel compelled to princess a pony, terrible music, wanky jumper days at work and houses lit up like Blackpool hallucinations, I love Christmas
 
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