Boycotting Christmas

[manhattanite]

Who here doesn't celebrate Christmas and why? I don't because I think it is a hollow, garish, materialistic charade and I do not believe in Christianity. What are your reasons?

[HEAVYHEART]

1. I agree

But I started celebrating christmas again after I had my kids.

[gennifer6]

2. Christmas to me is like baseball and bird-watching.....

If you are "into" that kind of thing, more power to ya, but I haven't the slightest interest in it. I don't care about decorating trees or buying/recieveing gifts, I don't care about Christmas carols, eggnog, and I don't care about Christianity. No hard feelings, just a total lack of interest. I LOVE Halloween, however, if that helps explain.
also, I have no children, if I did I'm sure I would have to at least muster up something for them.

[Pegleg Thd]

4. All Xmas and all other holidays

do is fatten walmart's bankroll. No,we do not celebrate by buying.

[Bronco69]

6. I'm right there with ya!

I have absolutely NO interest in Christmas whatsoever. New Years Eve on the other hand...:party: :toast: :beer: :headbang:

[gennifer6]

12. YEAH!!! That's a holiday

:toast:

[luaneryder]

3. Basically, same as yours

I give throughout the year, when I can, to the people and organizations I care about. It bothers me that during this time I see politicans or others ladeling out stew at a soup kitchen for a photo op, then they lay down the spoon and don't give it another thought until the next op. It's just one big media blitz with little meaning.

[gennifer6]

5. Good point, "Christmas spirit" should be all-year

[carnie_sf]

7. I refuse to further

fatten the corporate fat cats.

[Selwynn]

8. I love Christmas, and it doesn't have to be hollow, garish, materialistic

or a charade if you don't make it such a thing. For me Christmas is about family tradition, love and lots of joy. The giving of heartfelt gifts is not marterialistic or at least it doesn't have to be. Often times it can be the thing of great sacrifice and an expression of real love and affection for those you care about.

The singing of happy carols, putting up christmas lights, spending time with family, honoring family traditions (in our family one tradition is that we watch the old 70s version of the musical scrooge (with albert finney) and a Pocket Full of Miracles every Christmas eve), big Christmas dinners well people laugh and fellowship together --- NONE OF THESE are things to sneer at. They are beautiful happy things, truly the best things in life.

As far as the Christianity thing goes, millions of people can attest to the fact that not believing in Christianity really has nothing to do with whether or not one celebrates Christmas. It doesn't matter whether you call it Christmas or Solstace or Holidays or whatever. It can still be a time to laugh and love and celebrate the season.

I don't have a problem if you choose not to celebrate a holiday. But calling it hollow, garish materialistic charade really fails to apprecate the fact that it is only those things if YOU make it those things.

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[Francesca]

11. That sounds very nice!

My husband and I unfortunately are expected to be everywhere at once and are beginning to resent the tug of war our respective families play.. we don't have children yet and are the youngest so this treatment is deemed acceptable... we resent it enormously and want to start our own Christmas tradition...

[ProdigalJunkMail]

13. Echoing Selwyns's reponse to this

Christmas is what you make it...as much commercialism as there is to the Christian celebration of Christmas, (and, yes, I understand the celebration's pagan roots) it is a relatively simple matter to make of Christmas what you want. You can choose to see it as crass commercialism and let it affect you to your core. You can get offended at every reference to Christmas you see and spend a couple of months pissed off about everything. You can see it as an opportunity to pick fights over things that ultimately come down to a select few obnoxious assholes. People who don't like Christmas or Christians have been complaining for years about the whole season of Christmas...I don't imagine it is going to change. The only person who can change it for you is...you.

theProdigal

OnEdit : stupid typos...not very Christmaslike