Why do athiests celebrate Christmas and act like it's not a Christian holiday?

Why do athiests celebrate Christmas and act like it's not a Christian holiday?

They're greedy faggits who want nothing but mommies livings and gifts for the rest of their lives.

Also

>>pol

>tripfriend

These days it's more of a capitalist holiday.
Just because you don't believe in God doesn't mean you can't take advantage of a good deal.

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I worship mammon

I think it's a great thing for everyone to celebrate a holiday regardless of beliefs. Isn't it supposed to be about kindness and mercy and Christian values like that anyway which we can all agree with? fostering a sense of community and empathy for all human beings?

alright nevermind

Why do you pretend to be Christian while masturbating to drawn child porn?

>pretend

>Believing in some voodoo man in the sky

"""Intellectual""" board

Almost every culture has had celebrations for the ending of the harvest season/winter festivals
It's a time of festivities for a more cultures than Christians, so who cares
Also parties are great for everyone

Because it's fun and there's no god to tell me not to celebrate it.

>not being a """""cultural christian"""""

i bet you don't even deus vult

It's nice tbhhhh you are sharing with your familie and friends and the emotion when you open the presents and stuff. It's about peace and love at least for a day.

To most people its not

Ideology

[In answer to the question of whether it is appropriate for an atheist to celebrate Christmas:]

Yes, of course. A national holiday, in this country, cannot have an exclusively religious meaning. The secular meaning of the Christmas holiday is wider than the tenets of any particular religion: it is good will toward men—a frame of mind which is not the exclusive property (though it is supposed to be part, but is a largely unobserved part) of the Christian religion.

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”—not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form—by giving presents to one’s friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying . . . stimulates an enormous outpouring of ingenuity in the creation of products devoted to a single purpose: to give men pleasure. And the street decorations put up by department stores and other institutions—the Christmas trees, the winking lights, the glittering colors—provide the city with a spectacular display, which only “commercial greed” could afford to give us. One would have to be terribly depressed to resist the wonderful gaiety of that spectacle.

I celebrate Christmas as an American holiday. I don't go caroling or go to baby jesus plays. I watch rudolf the red nosed reindeer and frosty the snowman. I spend time with my family and drink hot cocoa. I get a Christmas tree and put up lights and our presidential ornaments.

Merry Christmas user.

Burn in hell, pagan.

I'm reading the New Testiment right now though. I never said I was an atheist. When I was younger I was agnostic. As I grow older I'm finding myself more of a believer, in the scripture as a source of moral enlightenment, in the church as a source of familial and communal upbringing, and that everything happens in life for a reason and the condition of our soul affects greatly whether we will rise or fall as a human being. Seeing people fallen to their lowest lows I also always have hope in the soul, ethics, and morality of the individual being strengthened through effort and the guidence and compassion of his fellow man.

Nicely said, friend. Peace be with you and your family. Merry Christmas.

I had a similar experience, too. As I got older, I felt I lacked direction and subsequently started going to church again.

Since I've rekindled my faith, I've felt at peace with myself and the world.

Why do Christians celebrate Roman Pagan Seasonal Festivals, call it Jesus's Birthday, and act like it's not a pagan festival?

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"Christmas" these days is the liberal-capitalist "holiday" of peak consumerism. It starts on Black Friday and runs through the old Christian holiday. It's purpose is to generate fat Christmas bonuses for the wealthy retail owners.

I don't "celebrate" it. I haven't the money.

Technically Saturnalia is a week long, with three days radiating out from the Winter Solstice, this past Wednesday, as the central day. The Christians held their Christ-mass the after their "pagan" celebration ended.

Go fuck yourself

>It's purpose is to generate fat Christmas bonuses for the (((wealthy retail owners)))

The Walton's have to buy Christmas gifts too, user.