Atheists who celebrate Christmas vs. Hanukkah?

repeating a lie does not make it so.

 

What color does Chicago or Boston dye their rivers for any other holiday

 

there is more to the USA than Boston and Chicago.

meanwhile NYC does not dye the Hudson green, nor is the Mississippi, Manongahela, Ohio, Alaghena or other rivers dyed green.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...6/st-patricks-day-rivers-dyed-green/24839351/

Hundreds of millions of people out in about in green waters celebrating St. Patricks day.

Ok now that this is proven, I'm moving this back on topic and will only respond to relevant posts (you trolled me good this time buddy, i'll get ya back later )

Why do less Atheists celebrate a Jewish holiday than Christians?

 

hundreds of millions of people huh?

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

this is what we call a "lie".

 

Actually Santa has removed the Christ from Christmas for the most part and the entire holiday has reverted to its original intent before the Church decided to make up a date for their God mans birthday. It has again become a "Season" of celebration culminating in the end of winter and return of warmth. Thus does Joy and Comfort become important and people take an evergreen indoors to remind them that things will be green again.

 

What?

 

Reference to the pagan root holidays that the romans used as the time for their holiday so as to make conversion more palatable.

 

Christmas and Christians are 100 percent interchangeable. Everything thinks of Christians when referencing Christmas. Even if they believe in a flying spaghetti monster

 

Perhaps this is true, but very few actually have a birthday party for Jesus or even spend much time thinking about him.

 

Actually there is Jewish poster here who is agnostic and practices all of the Orthodox Jewish laws and rules. Don't recall his name off hand, he doesn't post often. In any case, we have friends of several different religions and celebrate pretty much all of their holidays as well.

Actually that gentleman posts on another board, now that I think about it, one I no longer post at, way too Pedro-Friendly and poorly moderated at that.

The old infidels.org board had some, but Dawkins, being a psycho, had a tantrum and pretty much trashed that board into irrelevancy.

 

All of the Christians I know celebrate the religious aspect of the holiday; don't know where the claims to the contrary come from. I guess they think Macy's is a church or something.

 

I don't celebrate either. But then, I don't have kids. I did grow up in a Christian family, so I guess, I would do Christmas, if I had kids. Although, I might do Hanukkah, if i had a Jewish inclined wife.

 

SAINT ... Patrics day. Atheists?

 

Saint is an almost irrelevant term outside the Catholic Church and has pretty much become a pointless word. It is more relevant to football, songs and holiday parties.

 

Why don't atheists celebrate Eid or Kwanzaa or the full moon festivals?

 

Pretty relevant to St. Patrick ... the church who cannonized him ... and the Catholics who celebrate his life. Atheists are irrelevant to all 3.

 

Pretty sure that's what I just said.

 

Ah! so you did ... had to read it again. Following the inane exchange with Ron Swastika has me a bit fatigued.

 

It's a matter of tradition. Just like Christians celebrate certain pagan festivals (at least in Sweden).

When I visited my jewish girlfriend over the holidays, I went through the Hanukkah celebrations too, but not normally.

 

I'm an atheist, I don't celebrate either, they're both silly.

 

Dude. You're missing out on some serious presents. Christmas is great because you just wake up and tons of presents are there...but Hanukkah is great because there are 8 friggin nights of presents. It's just madness

 

Yes, and if you want to bury me in gifts I wouldn't object.

BUT Christmas is also stress, (mostly for women who have to buy the gifts, cook the food , clean the house, organize the socializing and everything else while men watch football), overspending into debt on command, getting drunk for Jesus birthday, pretending to care on command, overeating, having to listen to accounts of Black Friday (the ONLY reason for Christmas it seems), braggarts "complaining" of what they spent on gifts, and REALLY bad music, etc....

 

I stopped going home for Christmas because every time I do, I need to spend money out the ass just to get my huge family gifts. Now "something comes up" around Dec 23rd and I have to "stay home"

 

I'm an atheist who celebrates both. I don't get why people hate the "commercialized" elements of holidays, they're fun!