Christmas secular?

[Mjonller]

For me the holiday Christmas has been so blurred by the media, it has become secular, and still celibrate it because it is a family tradition.

Anyone else feel the same?

 

[flicka]

I've been celebrating Christmas as a secular holiday for nearly 48 years now. It's never been anything else to me.

 

[Pinp]

If you want to get technical Christmas was actually a pagan holiday that the church appropriated.

 

[Job_s_First_Son]

For me the holiday Christmas has been so blurred by the media, it has become secular, and still celibrate it because it is a family tradition.

Anyone else feel the same?

Is there anything wrong with celebrating it as a family tradition? I believe most people have always done this.

 

[trunks2k]

Christmas has been mostly a secular holiday in my immediate family for years. The only thing religious about our christmas celebration is the two nativity scenes my mom puts up. One is purely for decoration, the other is because it's one her grandmother made.

Even in my extended family, the religious meaning behind Christmas is minimal. The only thing they really do that makes it religious is go to Christmas eve mass. After that, it's just about getting together with the rest of the family.

 

[Lynden1000]

my husband and I don't celebrate Christmas, other than celebrating time off from work. But then again, we have no children and no family close by, so we've never really been "holiday" folks.

 

[levi501]

Christmas is a secular holiday that many people celebrate because it's a convienent time to spend with their loved ones.

 

[JesusWalks78]

For whatever reason you celebrate Christmas...it is a good time to spend time with the family and appreciate the greater gifts of the household.

For me there is a family gathering on Christmas eve, Christmas day I spend at Mass and a quiet lunch....then I throw a party that usually lasts till the new year.

 

[starelda]

Christmas has almost always been a secular celebration to me. My family are just not interested in religion at all, we all still celebrate Christmas though.

 

[gengwall]

Although Christmas is still a religious celebration for us, it is only slightly so. Easter is a much more religious holiday in our book.

It does not help that it's roots are pagan as Pinp points out and that it is nowhere near the actual time of year Jesus was born (Aug/Sep based on most anlyses I have seen).

 

[Mrs.Sidhe]

With my husbands family, (my sister-in-law being Jewish, my mother-in-law being pretty much Buddhist, my father-in-law not really having much of a religion besides Elvis) its kinda interesting...

There's usually so many holiday celebrations going on you don't even notice.....

But I would say (personally) Christmas is kinda secular around there. But its usually a good time to spend together.

 

[Caylin]

For me the holiday Christmas has been so blurred by the media, it has become secular, and still celibrate it because it is a family tradition.

Anyone else feel the same?

What a shock, I celebrate christmas just like you!

 

[Isis-Astoroth]

Christmas has never been religious in my house. In my opinion, once you have the christmas tree, the decorations, the presents, the christmas dinner and everything else, it kind of obscures any religious meaning there was supposed to be.

 

[tocis]

For me the holiday Christmas has been so blurred by the media, it has become secular, and still celibrate it because it is a family tradition.

The yearly hype about these few days is indeed overly secular (it's just the same with Ostara - Easter - if you ask me). Of course that doesn't mean that everone must go with the flow.

Me, I refuse to go along either with the "buy, BUY, BUY!!!" craze or with the christian celebrations. The only thing still unclear currently is whether this year's Yuletide celebration will take at my place, my wife's place or that of the free shaman in our circle of friends.