Celebrate Christmas but NOT Religious?

A change of pace for the finale of the Cat, Funny & Greedo 2009 Christmas Spectacular! See you next year!

Thanks to Ed for providing the question for this video, we never did hear your answer...

Music Used With Permission by Kevin MacLeod

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With thanks once more to Paul/dinnerwithgreedo

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[OhCurt]

I have nothing to add to that debate since I barely celebrate anymore. Interesting discussion, though. Christmas never means the same exact thing from one person to the next.

[21stCenturyCat]

well I hope at least you did something a little bit out of the ordinary and had a good one.

[hollowspine]

I don't recognize or use the term "Christmas" in reference of the holiday celebrating the 25th of December...I use the more modern term "Xmas", which is way cooler because it doesn't have any of the Christian bullshit tagged on to the original pagan holiday.

However, "Xmas" isn't the original pagan holiday either, but the ultimate evolution of the winter holiday...it's all about celebrating friends, family, rampant consumerism and huddling together in mortal fear of Robot Santa.

[21stCenturyCat]

I think you have summed it up perfectly there, to most it is just that, a winter holiday. A few days off work and a chance to catch up with family & friends.

[DeviaUmbra9]

I guess it's a moot point, considering that it was stolen from another religion anyway. I agree with what you said, Christmas is whatever you make it, really.

[EdT948]

Also, the Christian faith stealing the festival for themselves doesn't really show religion in a very good light. If, as Le SaMilano says, there are some who don't like non-believers taking part, have a secular festival instead and do the same at Easter. Religion is what most of the wars in the world are fought over, so possibly we'd be better off having festivities that have got nothing to do with something so divisive...

[EdT948]

Hi 21stCC, DWG and Mr Funny, and thanks very much for answering my question on your Christmas show - looks like it provoked quite a response. I guess all the stuff about it being a pagan festival is fair enough, but Christmas as we know it is a Christian religious festival, and many of us who celebrate it are not religious in any meaningful sense. To my mind, we really should do away with Christmas, or at least the religious attachments of it, and simply have a winter knees up instead!

[LeSaMilano]

Nothing like very un-christian-like idiocy to make me pleased to continue in celebrating winter solstice!

Hope you had a happy festivus!

[LeSaMilano]

Christmas is an amalgam of traditions and has become a modern holiday celebration for people across the globe, across many faiths. I saw some pretty lame conversations on YT and FB by Christians declaring ownership of Christmas, asking the question why so many NON- Christians celebrate Christmas - after all they (the Christians) don't try and horn in on THEIR holidays (i.e., everyone else's) and the non-believers are only happy about the free days off work that xmas affords!

[selbyjason]

Best Film Yet!!!! Fuckers!!!!

[thizizliz]

Seriously? You didn't know that? Yeah, the christians took the aproximate date and many of the pagan traditions because it made it easier to convert people. When I was a kid in Catholic school, we were taught that Jesus was born in spring or summer (I'm old, I've forgotten exactly). Nice video!

[samsarajade]

Fair enough-and wikepedia supports Babs info! I must have been making assumptions on something else I'd heard, like maybe when the indoor Christmas tree was first introduced to Britain?