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Old 12th September 2007, 11:14 AM
Amelie Amelie is offline
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Originally Posted by Mr Radish View Post
I think it's ok for people to celebrate Christmas without religion also, despite it been about as hypocritical as you can get, just like getting married in church if you are a non believer. I never said non Christians should not celebrate it. . .just to be clear. I would not describe myself as a practising Christian, therefore class myself as a hypocrite!
I think you can celebrate the good spirit or message of Christmas, despite not having a faith.

Just think that Christmas for many has ceased to mean anything of real worth and is just a huge money making scam that the masses fall prey to, while money makers rub their hands.

Our local village all gather in the square on Christmas Eve and sing carols. It was telling that while the attendance was huge. . .75% did not know the words to any of them! They wanted to join in, but no longer had the knowledge to do so.

The Xmas thing is just a personal bug bear, I just find it ironic that the word Christ is substituted with an x. I bet most people have probably never thought about it or even care what I'm on about! LOL! Some people genuinely when polled, don't even know why we have Christmas


It is up to each person to decide what is important about Christmas and how to celebrate it.


I was just offering up my own personal feelings about the death of the traditional Christmas and the rise of the consumer led, festival of spending, that is "XMAS" today for a great many.

I was answering the bugbear of the 'Christ' element being removed from the title of Christmas. If you practice atheism then the removal of such a word means nowt, hence me saying thats no problemo (imho), as many celebrate Christmas for the hell of it (like me). You say each person can decide what is important about Christmas and how to celebrate it- but you get pissed off about those who don't correlate it with religious shiz?
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