Re: athiests and Religious holidays | | frankly, seeing as more than half of the Traditions surrounding Christmas have nothing to do with chrisitianity (The tree: pagan rite of bringing the 'forest' into your home, misteltoe: roman symbol is sexual licentiousness, red-jolly santa claus: image brought to you by coca cola, the date: annual festival taken over by romans christianizing local population, the presents: modern hyper-consumerism dressed up as generosity, the feast: part of the pre-existing feast date stolen by the romans.)
Historically, just about the only things christians have brought to Christmas have been the name, a randomly garbled story (have you ever actually READ the three different stories??) of how Jesus was born, and widespread public humiliation and brutalisation of Jews (although this part of Christmas appears to have dropped out of the modern celebration.)
I honestly don't understand what the question is about.
Christmas has nothing to do with christianity. |