 Re: athiests and Religious holidays | |
There are religious observations, and there are holiday traditions. The two are not the same thing.
Yule trees, rabbits, chimneys, eggs, and so on are not part of the birth or resurrection of Jesus. They have been adopted into our distinctly American traditions, though.
Other countries have their own cultural traditions that coincide with the same religious observations - making the only common thread between the two, the religion, not the tradition.
(both Easter and Christmas celebrations have borrowed heavily from Pagan traditions, but they really cannot be reasonably argued to be the same thing.) |