Loopey
Tuesday 16th December 2008 12:33am
Fairyland
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Quote: Pete @ December 15 2008, 7:17 PM GMT
Not in 2008 in the UK.
Like it or not, there are two groups who use Christmas as a celebration. Those who are religious and those who want to celebrate a time of good will to family and friends with all the festivities that go with it.
You can easily celebrate Christmas for the latter reason and have no sign of God but it's hard to celebrate for the former and not have signs of unreligious commercialism. In a way, the religious folks are nicking the atheist celebratory techniques for their own use!
People that moan "the real meaning is being lost" are WRONG.....the real meaning (to them) is alive and well....their just looking at people like me and mistakenly thinking I'm celebrating THIER Christmas when I'm actually doing nothing of the sort.
I see your point but that is a bit of a generalisation - surely there is room for Christians and non Christians to celebrate however they see fit without judging each other. I was referring to the dictionary definition of Christmas and therefore what it is that people claim to be celebrating when they use that word.
i.e. celebrating Christmas (the celebration of the birth of Jesus) and having no sign of God, is a bit of a contradiction, so surely non-Christians are enjoying the holiday and all those things that go with it, rather than actually celebrating the fact that it is Christmas, as per its definition.
Goodwill to family, friends and everyone else can never be wrong, whatever the reason or words we use to describe it.