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  • No, Christmas is the day we celebrate our Lord Jesus Christs' birthday, if you aren't religious then EVERYDAY could be your illusion of having fun and being happy time.
  • I'm an atheist but my family celebrate Christmas as a family holiday and we enjoy having all the family round and having a massive meal and generally enjoying each others company but with the added sense of occasion. OK so it could be argued that Christmas is a Christian holiday, but since most of the religious symbolage and underlying meaning is derived from other religions, that argument isn't that waterproof. And lets face it, he wasn't even born on the 25th December. And he was a Jew. So whilst I understand why devout Christians say that Christmas is more important to them, this is true in a purely religious sense and I am sure I hold the day close to my heart just as much as more religious types, just for differing reasons. On a related theme, if someone did come up to me and said that I shouldn't celebrate Christmas because I'm not a Christian, I'd ask them if they ever celebrated Halloween as a child and went trick or treating. I am anticipating a fairly large number of bad ratings and insulting comments now, which is a pity because I don't mean to insult or put down others.
  • Nearly all cultures have a midwinter festival. Nobody actually knows the date of Christ's birthday, so the Early Church chose to "take over" the midwinter festival. But the midwinter festival existed before Christianity, and can still exist for non-Christians. Call it Yule, if you prefer, but it is quite OK for non-Christians to celebrate the midwinter as a festival of the family and friends and of being together, and let the Christians celebrate in their own way.

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