What do you Celebrate Chritmas for?
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Because my entire family is Christian and it's a time for all of us (inclduing my grandparents, aunts, uncles, my cousins too) to get together.  They celebrate the remembrance of Christ's birth and I celebrate being with them.
744412
I see nothing wrong with honoring a person with a cenotaph, so neither do I see anything wrong with honoring Jesus on a day that was not his birthday.  Not that Christmas is only about Jesus or Christianity anymore.  I personally like some of its secular aspects, though, like most people, I regret that it has become so commercialized.
226787
Christmas!  that's when family and friends get together and just be happy and celebrate.
774521
Um, I'm not sure if I'll count but I celebrate Yule (as I'm Pagan) without presents etc etc, but a few days later I do the whole present thing as well. I personally dont see whats wrong with spoiling loved ones at that time of year. (I know its becoming more and more commercial but nothings gonna change that), to me Yule/Christmas is a time for family and friends!
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My mom's side of the family is from Norway, so we all gather around the piano at her house (my uncle plays-- it's nice to have a concert pianist in the family!) and we sing traditional Norwegian Christmas songs, in addition to regular carols.  Music is a huge part of our Christmas tradition.\nMy fiance's family is Italian, so we do the 7 fishes on Christmas Eve, and make a tour of all his friends houses like he always did when he was a kid.\nWe also started our own tradition of opening presents naked in bed... tee hee.
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I know you said this question is for those who don't celebrate any religious holidays, but I'm going to answer anyways.  People seem to take great precaution to not offend anyone--unless, of course, they are Christians.  Go figure.  It can be so frustrating to see everyone try to take Jesus out of Christmas, isn't it?  :(  It may make you feel better to know that Happy Holiday means Happy Holy Day.  And I think it is safe to say Jesus's birthday is a VERY holy day, wouldn't you?  So... Happy Holy Day and a very Merry Christ-mas to you!
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Something to look forward to I guess, like winter is cold and dark and depressing, but hey, Jesus was born and we get to have lots of parties and presents and do family stuff that although you say you hate it, it's pretty fun!\nAs it's for RE, I'd say that it makes a community, or a country, or a religion, feel united in their joy (or sadness for Easter).  We also celebrate to remind us, would we even know half these facts if we didn't celebrate them each year?  It's also an excuse to show people we care about them when celebrating birthdays and anniversaries and stuff.  Lots of reason!
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Hey why not celebrate both,get some stuff on the Christmas holiday,and then get some more stuff on the made up Kwanza.
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Christmas is about Jesus, however most of the "traditions" is paganistic. When I used to be a witch, I celebrated winter solstice-which falls almost on the same day. To celebrate with a tree, wrapped presents, and food is the same way a pagan  or wiccan celebrates winter solstice.So if someone who isn't christian is celebrating, maybe they are giving thanks to mother nature for winter. By the way, as a christian now, I celebrate christmas without the wreaths, tree, etc because it says in the bible not to entwine the paganistic traditions with God. Give thanks to God that He allowed His son to be born to save our souls!!
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They don't celebrate the idea behind christmas, they don't celebrate the birth of out Lord and savior. They celebrate a holiday without the meaning of it. They celebrate the gathering of family and friends for a good meal and a great party.
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Well, theres three schools of thought here, the first of which I am a member of.  (Dates assume you observe Christmas Western Christian....Eastern Orthodox is a couple weeks later).\n\n1. New Years Day (give or take).  This allows you and your neighbors to enjoy the decorations an extra week, and allows your to symbolically put away the old year with the decorations.\n\n2.  Jan 5.  This allows you to celebrate the 12 days of Christmas equally.\n\n3.  July 4.  Hey, 7.2 million lazy hillbillies can't be wrong.\n\nHope you benefit from the answers!
797175
no---Its a celebration Of Jesus Christ's birthday\n\nits not Santamas .....its not Xmas....its CHRISTmas
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Chrismas-Christians celebrate the birth of christ, so its a annual ritual of theirs to celebrate the birth of christ.\n\nCan be used for all holidays \n\n\nYou can say its a family ritual of ours to go to my great grandmas grave and lay flowers every year on July 6th because thats the day she died, \n\nIts a ritual for me to brush my teeth in the shower every moring and floss on the wendsday
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Tumescence.\n\n(Hey, it was originally a pagan fertlilty celebration.)
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I always celebrate Yule and Christmas I am a pagan well I am  a witch and I follow a celtic path so I honour all of the traditional pagan sabbats.\n\nMy only wish is that people could extend their goodwill throughout the year instead of keeping it to one particular time of year but as that is never going to happen I shan't hold my breath.
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My husband and I don't celebrate Christmas in any way. When possible, I offer to work for those who are scheduled to work so that they can celebrate their holiday.\n\nWe are neo-pagans but we don't celebrate a religious holiday in December.  Since our religion is Celtic, we would be correct to have a feast, a holiday tree, wreaths and mistletoe--even though we choose not to.  The Romans occupied the Celtic lands (before Christianity was introduced) and lived with the Celts, so it would also be acceptable for us to burn candles and exchange gifts---even though we choose not to.  So if you take away all of the pagan parts of the season, how much is left?  How do Christians celebrate the birth of their god?  How ever you do it, we don't choose to do that either.
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Okay . . . Okay . . . the questioner is correct . . . \n\nChristmas is originally a pagan holiday . . . a week long festival . . . actually 12 days long . . . reminds you of a song.\n\nThis holiday was adopted to convert pagans into Christianity . . . and they accepted it hook, line, and sinker.\n\nThe majority of the holidays celebrated by Christian have pagan origins . . . but back to Christmas . . . \n\nSome of you said you celebrate this day in remembrance of the birth of Christ.  Did Christ ask his followers to remember his birth?  No he did not . . . instead he commanded his followers to commemorate the last supper in his remembrance . . . . Not do perform it daily or weekly . . . but annually like the early christians did . . . prior to 325 AD.