you can't have it both ways! Options

[*kryogenix*]

is it fair that non-christians celebrate christmas with presents and christmas trees? i can't stand it when people openly say how they hate religion and christianity, then come christmas time, they brag about their christmas presents. that goes for easter too. people openly reject jesus christ's resurrection but they celebrate easter. and to add insult to injury, they completely change the meaning by having egghunts and bunnies.

-edit- uh yeah. you can't have it both ways! either become a christian and partake in our holidays, or stay an atheist/agnostic and don't celebrate our holidays, and don't change our holidays either!

[Spirited Away]

christmas lights? Why do we wear red and green? Why do we give kids presents on Easter? Why do we have egg hunts in easter? I think christmas is getting more and more commercialized. Unfortunatly, people do celebrate christmas and easter as if it was a non-religious holiday like halloween. I think people have a choice. To celebrate christmas as the birth of jesus, or chirstmas as the season of giving. But hypocrits are another thing. If you really talk bad about christians or catholics or jesus, then why would you wanna celebrate christmas? That's the problem, most people celebrate christmas or easter for the presents, not the meaning

There were a couple of Christmas-es that our whole neighborhood had lights up and my parents thought that would be fun to have lights, too, and told me to get some. Of course I complied, but our lights were no where near as extravagent as our neighbors, but my family had fun putting the lights up because we were spending quality time together. <-- Who'd want to stop people from loving each other and spending time with each other only because they can't share a holiday?

You're right, everyone has a choice in what to do for celebration. After all, I heard that God gave His creation free will.

If anyone has THAT big of a problem with sharing his/her religious holidays with his/her fellow human beings, then just think of it as the rest of us celebrating the ending of the year and the coming of a new year, or even the coming of snow.