Do you celebrate Christmas?

[Ixtab]

Yes.
No.
Other.

[Ace Rimmer]

Yes, the greatest day in history and gretest day in year.

[Felix the Cat]

Yes, of course

[Banat]

Yes. Yes I do.

[Zrinski]

My answer is - yes.

[Excorcism]

Yes, the greatest day in history and gretest day in year.



mmmm, yes. Well said Grom, well said. :D


nothing beats Christmas, not even my own birthday. why? because on christmas, there are no classes and there is no work to go to.

[Helios Panoptes]

It depends on what you mean. I see family on that day, but it has no religious significance to me.

[jcs]

It depends on what you mean. I see family on that day, but it has no religious significance to me.
I'm not really sure how a day, this one especially, could really have religious significance. Christmas, for me, has always been about family, tradition, gift-giving, and feasting, not Jesus. And thank God for that!

[Jimbo Gomez]

I do yes.

[Kodos]

Fuck yeah, not a religious thing for me( and wouldn't be even if I was a devout christian as the date of Christmas was just picked by Constantine to coincide with Saturnalia).

[Anarch]

Christmas, for me, has always been about family, tradition, gift-giving, and feasting, not Jesus. And thank God for that!

Definetly true.

[Ixtab]

-Christmas is a distillation of a medley of traditions that are deeply rooted in European culture, including certain pre-Christian traditions. That is largely why I continue to celebrate Christmas. I am fond of Christmas carols (What Child is This, O Christmas Tree, Silent Night, and other older ones); that is also partly why I continue to celebrate Christmas.
-Multiculturalism will inevitably rid society of this celebration. It will be banned in schools within fifty years on the pretext that it is a 'religious celebration', though in reality it will be banned because it is a European (not African or something) tradition.
-Even if it won't be phased out of existence by Multiculturalism, consumer culture, that faithful ally of Multiculturalism, is already cheapening Christmas beyond toleration. Christmas has been in rapid decline the last ten years.

[Felix the Cat]

You're right Ix, except that 50 years is way too optimistic. It'll be gone long before then.

[Ixtab]

It'll be gone long before then.The widespreadness of this kind of thinking is partly responsible.

[Felix the Cat]

Hah, how long before "insensitive" students are suspended from school, or employees from work, for merely wishing colleagues "Happy Christmas"

Long before 2055, I'll wager you

[Ixtab]

Hah, how long before "insensitive" students are suspended from school, or employees from work, for merely wishing colleagues "Happy Christmas"

Long before 2055, I'll wager youI have never thought otherwise. You are being needlessly argumentative. My point was that it will happen soon, the exact date is not important. I only gave a large time-frame (within the space of fifty years) to minimise the chances of being wrong.

[Starr]

The commercialization of it has helped create and atmosphere where no one cares(outside of a few super religous people here and there) that Christmas has become politically incorrect. And yes, cowcube it will be less than 50 years. As for people getting suspended from school or work for saying "merry christmas" rather than happy holidays, you know that is coming very soon. I am sure it has already happened in some places.

[Ixtab]

As soon as it is removed from the schools, which is inevitable, it will decline very rapidly, I suspect.

[Berianidze]

No I do not; some of my extended family still celebrates Christmas, but on Jan 7th no Dec. 25th.

[Banat]

No I do not; some of my extended family still celebrates Christmas, but on Jan 7th no Dec. 25th.

Technically, it is still December 25th in the old Julian Calendar.

[Lenny]

not a religious thing for me( and wouldn't be even if I was a devout christian as the date of Christmas was just picked by Constantine to coincide with Saturnalia).See posts #10 thru 13 here in this thread: http://www.thephora.net/forum/showthread.php?p=14830#post14830

[The Retard]

Yes, I remember those dreaded years Christmas fell on Saturday and you had to go to Church twice. :D

[Dionysus]

Of course, though largely in the secular sense.

[Billy Score]

i put other. i don't really care but as a kid it really was a "magical" celebration. You never forgot christmas time, even if the presents weren't the best, it just had some positive feeling to it. However this has changed as i have grown out of the santa thing. Also those old carols and songs which were beautiful have been replaced with new remakes which try to incorproate the primitive tribal puke that is on MTV etc. I hear them all day at my store and its embarassing. It angers me to see the holiday butchered and commercialized. I don't care about the religious aspect, but there is something else there that is no longer there. Is it just me or does it feel like even 10-15 years ago things were "different?" Children growing up in the 2000s/late 90s don't have the same experience that i and others did. it's a damned shame.

[Leif]

Hell yes I celebrate christmas. My family used to celebrate christmas so much we'd leave the tree up for eight months a year!

[Anarch]

No I do not; some of my extended family still celebrates Christmas, but on Jan 7th no Dec. 25th.
Orthodox Christians?