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Do you buy Christmas presents for your loved ones? Take off from work on Christian holidays? Totally serious question...
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Yes I do...although I would say I am agnostic.
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Yes I do...although I would say I am agnostic.
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So you dont believe in Jesus Christ?
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Do you buy Christmas presents for your loved ones? Take off from work on Christian holidays? Totally serious question...
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You call it Christmas... We call it "winter solstice."
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So you dont say "merry christmas" or anything... You say Happy Winter Solstice heres some presents? Why even give presents for winter solstice, whats the reason behind it?
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Do you buy Christmas presents for your loved ones? Take off from work on Christian holidays? Totally serious question...
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You call it Christmas... We call it "winter solstice."
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Yes. I celebrate halloween also - not because I feel evil spirits need chasing, but in observation of the tradition.

One need not believe in the basis of something to celebrate it.

Hipocracy isn't a problem unless you want to stand on a soapbox.
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I see what you did there.
And the LORD spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.

I am an evil giraffe, and I shall eat more leaves from this tree than perhaps I should, so that other giraffes may die.
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Do you buy Christmas presents for your loved ones? Take off from work on Christian holidays? Totally serious question...
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You call it Christmas... We call it "winter solstice."
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2506416


Yes. I celebrate halloween also - not because I feel evil spirits need chasing, but in observation of the tradition.

One need not believe in the basis of something to celebrate it.

Hipocracy isn't a problem unless you want to stand on a soapbox.
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Well it does seem hypocritical...you proclaim your lack of belief in God, but celebrate a proclaimed religious holiday? Doesnt make sense, why celebrate it based on a Christian tradition you dont believe in?

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Do you buy Christmas presents for your loved ones? Take off from work on Christian holidays? Totally serious question...
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i throw burning swastikas through my relations abodes and crucify my boss on an inverted crucifix
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OMG I used to be an atheist until Jesus came to me last year and sucked me so good I had to call him LORD!
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if I believe in a higher being- essentially all of them but little of what the lower ignorant people call an interpretation of "them" - does that make me an agnostic? I don't like following what stupid people from hundreds of years ago have to say about those from above...I also hate the "new wave" fruitcakes

what do you say OP? am I an atheist? agnostic? Sumerian? Mayan?
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Do you buy Christmas presents for your loved ones? Take off from work on Christian holidays? Totally serious question...
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i throw burning swastikas through my relations abodes and crucify my boss on an inverted crucifix
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I like you...you march to the beat of your own drum...5a
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dec 25 is not christs b-day according to the bible

he wasn't born in dec (in fact jesus is myth and wasn't even born)

prior to the fraud religion of xianity people celebrate the rebirth of the sun after the solstice
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Meh I enjoy some of the social aspects of Christmas. The family, food, friends and drinks is way better than happy birthday Jesus.
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if I believe in a higher being- essentially all of them but little of what the lower ignorant people call an interpretation of "them" - does that make me an agnostic? I don't like following what stupid people from hundreds of years ago have to say about those from above...I also hate the "new wave" fruitcakes

what do you say OP? am I an atheist? agnostic? Sumerian? Mayan?
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Not my place to say. Only you can make the choice of what religion if any to follow.

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Do you buy Christmas presents for your loved ones? Take off from work on Christian holidays? Totally serious question...
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None of your business.
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Do you buy Christmas presents for your loved ones? Take off from work on Christian holidays? Totally serious question...
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You call it Christmas... We call it "winter solstice."
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2506416


Yes. I celebrate halloween also - not because I feel evil spirits need chasing, but in observation of the tradition.

One need not believe in the basis of something to celebrate it.

Hipocracy isn't a problem unless you want to stand on a soapbox.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25994549


Well it does seem hypocritical...you proclaim your lack of belief in God, but celebrate a proclaimed religious holiday? Doesnt make sense, why celebrate it based on a Christian tradition you dont believe in?
 Quoting: LoneSurviver


A holiday isn't necessarily religious. Like I celebrate Veterans Day but never served, or Memorial Day but haven't lost a family member. Breast cancer month but no breasts. you get the idea.

There is a form and function, and they need not interrelate.
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Do you buy Christmas presents for your loved ones? Take off from work on Christian holidays? Totally serious question...
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None of your business.
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Then why bother getting in this thread?whatever
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if I believe in a higher being- essentially all of them but little of what the lower ignorant people call an interpretation of "them" - does that make me an agnostic? I don't like following what stupid people from hundreds of years ago have to say about those from above...I also hate the "new wave" fruitcakes

what do you say OP? am I an atheist? agnostic? Sumerian? Mayan?
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Agnostic is knowing you don't know and being ok with it.
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So you dont say "merry christmas" or anything... You say Happy Winter Solstice heres some presents? Why even give presents for winter solstice, whats the reason behind it?
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See the whole thing with Christmas trees, gifts etc. all began with pagan traditions, not Christian ones. And to answer your question I say Merry Christmas to Christians, Happy Hanukkah to Jews and Happy Holidays if I am unsure of a person's chosen religion.
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No, I do not.
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You call it Christmas... We call it "winter solstice."
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Yes. I celebrate halloween also - not because I feel evil spirits need chasing, but in observation of the tradition.

One need not believe in the basis of something to celebrate it.

Hipocracy isn't a problem unless you want to stand on a soapbox.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25994549


Well it does seem hypocritical...you proclaim your lack of belief in God, but celebrate a proclaimed religious holiday? Doesnt make sense, why celebrate it based on a Christian tradition you dont believe in?
 Quoting: LoneSurviver


A holiday isn't necessarily religious. Like I celebrate Veterans Day but never served, or Memorial Day but haven't lost a family member. Breast cancer month but no breasts. you get the idea.

There is a form and function, and they need not interrelate.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25994549

I disagree. Christmas is a christian holiday. Veterans day is a day to honor veterans, a group we hold in a very high honor (or should anyway), ect. I think your comparison doesnt really hold well. Im not jewish, so i dont celebrate Hanukka.
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Yes. I celebrate halloween also - not because I feel evil spirits need chasing, but in observation of the tradition.

One need not believe in the basis of something to celebrate it.

Hipocracy isn't a problem unless you want to stand on a soapbox.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25994549


Well it does seem hypocritical...you proclaim your lack of belief in God, but celebrate a proclaimed religious holiday? Doesnt make sense, why celebrate it based on a Christian tradition you dont believe in?
 Quoting: LoneSurviver


A holiday isn't necessarily religious. Like I celebrate Veterans Day but never served, or Memorial Day but haven't lost a family member. Breast cancer month but no breasts. you get the idea.

There is a form and function, and they need not interrelate.
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I disagree. Christmas is a christian holiday. Veterans day is a day to honor veterans, a group we hold in a very high honor (or should anyway), ect. I think your comparison doesnt really hold well. Im not jewish, so i dont celebrate Hanukka.
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that's fine. Most religious people don't listen to logic. If they did they'd be agnostic or atheist,
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So you dont say "merry christmas" or anything... You say Happy Winter Solstice heres some presents? Why even give presents for winter solstice, whats the reason behind it?
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See the whole thing with Christmas trees, gifts etc. all began with pagan traditions, not Christian ones. And to answer your question I say Merry Christmas to Christians, Happy Hanukkah to Jews and Happy Holidays if I am unsure of a person's chosen religion.
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Thank you, that seems reasonable.
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i'm irish. i celebrate dolmen the 23rd of the december.

christmas i get off sometime.

but only when i read about cuchualian.
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Well it does seem hypocritical...you proclaim your lack of belief in God, but celebrate a proclaimed religious holiday? Doesnt make sense, why celebrate it based on a Christian tradition you dont believe in?
 Quoting: LoneSurviver


A holiday isn't necessarily religious. Like I celebrate Veterans Day but never served, or Memorial Day but haven't lost a family member. Breast cancer month but no breasts. you get the idea.

There is a form and function, and they need not interrelate.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25994549

I disagree. Christmas is a christian holiday. Veterans day is a day to honor veterans, a group we hold in a very high honor (or should anyway), ect. I think your comparison doesnt really hold well. Im not jewish, so i dont celebrate Hanukka.
 Quoting: LoneSurviver


that's fine. Most religious people don't listen to logic. If they did they'd be agnostic or atheist,
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If agnostic or atheists were logical they wouldnt celebrate religious holidays...peace
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agnostic here -

& yes - I never miss a good party.

Christmas gifts, a Yule log, a pagan tree,

Pagan eggs at Easter. (red ones, & we crash them to see who's toughest).

Solstice celebration.

Hanuka, passover, St. Patricks day (for Celtic Genocide), & of course Halloween.
**I'm all out of bubblegum
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A holiday isn't necessarily religious. Like I celebrate Veterans Day but never served, or Memorial Day but haven't lost a family member. Breast cancer month but no breasts. you get the idea.

There is a form and function, and they need not interrelate.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25994549

I disagree. Christmas is a christian holiday. Veterans day is a day to honor veterans, a group we hold in a very high honor (or should anyway), ect. I think your comparison doesnt really hold well. Im not jewish, so i dont celebrate Hanukka.
 Quoting: LoneSurviver


that's fine. Most religious people don't listen to logic. If they did they'd be agnostic or atheist,
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25994549


If agnostic or atheists were logical they wouldnt celebrate religious holidays...peace
 Quoting: LoneSurviver


By that reasoning non-blacks wouldn't celebrate black history month or readers literacy week. I'm comfortable with dualism. And atheist. :)
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you think christmas, Dec. 25, is really "the birth of Jesus" and not a lie to keep pagans from celebrating the winter solstice, like they had done for at least 1000 years before there were any christians?

and then I want to know what you think of easter.

totally serious question...
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I disagree. Christmas is a christian holiday. Veterans day is a day to honor veterans, a group we hold in a very high honor (or should anyway), ect. I think your comparison doesnt really hold well. Im not jewish, so i dont celebrate Hanukka.
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that's fine. Most religious people don't listen to logic. If they did they'd be agnostic or atheist,
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25994549


If agnostic or atheists were logical they wouldnt celebrate religious holidays...peace
 Quoting: LoneSurviver


By that reasoning non-blacks wouldn't celebrate black history month or readers literacy week. I'm comfortable with dualism. And atheist. :)
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I disagree. Christmas is a christian holiday. Veterans day is a day to honor veterans, a group we hold in a very high honor (or should anyway), ect. I think your comparison doesnt really hold well. Im not jewish, so i dont celebrate Hanukka.
 Quoting: LoneSurviver


that's fine. Most religious people don't listen to logic. If they did they'd be agnostic or atheist,
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25994549


If agnostic or atheists were logical they wouldnt celebrate religious holidays...peace
 Quoting: LoneSurviver


By that reasoning non-blacks wouldn't celebrate black history month or readers literacy week. I'm comfortable with dualism. And atheist. :)
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25994549


I dont celebrate black history month. I also dont celebrate white history month...oh wait, thats right...we dont get one..

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Do you buy Christmas presents for your loved ones? Take off from work on Christian holidays? Totally serious question...
 Quoting: LoneSurviver


I wouldn't say I'm an atheist, but I don't have a religion so I can answer your question.

Yes! Christmas is a holiday for all in my opinion.
What has santa got to do with Jesus? What does the easter bunner have to do with Jesus dieing?

Christmas is my favourite time of year, I get to see my kids smile and laugh and give them cool toys. I get to chill out with my family and eat yummy food.

To me Christmas is about giving and enjoying your family, nothing else.





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