Why don't you have a Christmas Tree or give gifts on the 25th.
Do you celebrate the 4th of July? How about New Years? Labor Day? Thanksgiving?
That is the most fatuous question I've seen asked here.
I celebrate New Year's Day, Labor Day & Thanksgiving precisely because there is no religious content. Those holidays, with the exception of New Year's, are state holidays. I used to celebrate Christmas & Easter, but I no longer do, because I no longer identify as Christian. (However, I would be justified in celebrating Christmas since it was initially a pagan holiday.)
I don't celebrate Chinese New Year because I'm not Chinese. I don't celebrate Passover because I'm not Jewish. I don't celebrate Cinco de Mayo because I'm not Mexican. &c.
Christmas is certainly contemporarily Christian as it has been coopted by the Christian church. I daresay that most people who celebrate Christmas are Christians, which would put the lie to your assertion that the holiday is not Christian.
it was not until sometime in the late 1880's that the Catholic church even began allowing it's members to have Christmas celebrations
That is rather irrelevant to whether the holiday is celebrated as Christian today.
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Date: 8/12/10 20:54 (UTC)Do you celebrate the 4th of July?
How about New Years?
Labor Day?
Thanksgiving?
That is the most fatuous question I've seen asked here.
I celebrate New Year's Day, Labor Day & Thanksgiving precisely because there is no religious content. Those holidays, with the exception of New Year's, are state holidays. I used to celebrate Christmas & Easter, but I no longer do, because I no longer identify as Christian. (However, I would be justified in celebrating Christmas since it was initially a pagan holiday.)
I don't celebrate Chinese New Year because I'm not Chinese. I don't celebrate Passover because I'm not Jewish. I don't celebrate Cinco de Mayo because I'm not Mexican. &c.
Christmas is certainly contemporarily Christian as it has been coopted by the Christian church. I daresay that most people who celebrate Christmas are Christians, which would put the lie to your assertion that the holiday is not Christian.
it was not until sometime in the late 1880's that the Catholic church even began allowing it's members to have Christmas celebrations
That is rather irrelevant to whether the holiday is celebrated as Christian today.