Bah humbug!

notanewuser

j.e.j. wrote: »

:rotfl:

Oh dear, sorry notanewuser, but Christmas is following you like a bad smell

It really isn't.

jaylee3

Just call it crimbo NANU

notanewuser

lostinrates wrote: »

Mas or mass, being the pinnacle point of Christian worship.

Personally I don't care what your family day is called so long as its a nice day. I think respect is deserved each way.

I'm not a Christian by belief but I am respectful and fond of many aspects of my cultural heritage, and I find the attitude of some who aren't cAn be as offensively belligerent as the enthusiastically observant in denial of other's beliefs or lack thereof.

I'm perfectly respectful of whatever anybody wants to do. It's not my intention to be offensive or belligerent. i haven't said that others shouldn't do anything they want to do!

jaylee3

lostinrates wrote: »

Mas or mass, being the pinnacle point of Christian worship.

Personally I don't care what your family day is called so long as its a nice day. I think respect is deserved each way.

I'm not a Christian by belief but I am respectful and fond of many aspects of my cultural heritage, and I find the attitude of some who aren't can be as offensively belligerent as the enthusiastically observant in denial of other's beliefs or lack thereof.

Try saying THAT three times in a row real fast after a few gins!

Torry_Quine

notanewuser wrote: »

Okay, again, the only reason it gets called anything is because of the general expectation in this country that everybody does something for christmas. I demonstrated earlier the surprise shown when you ell someone you don't do christmas.

As I don't follow christianity i don't use the word "christmas" out of respect for those that do. What we do has nothing to do with jesus or any other deity. I'm also not greek, so that has no relevance to me either!

The only reason we use the word xmas is because there isn't another word to describe what we do in common usage. It's a shorthand so that I don't have to spend a lot of time explaining it!

We do our "thing" on whatever day we can. Regardless of any saints or solstices or anything else.

Surely though if you say we're having our Xmas get-together people will think Christmas as it's the recognised shortened version. You need to remove all words associated with it.

I must say though that you have my total respect for living by your own belief system.

Person_one

j.e.j. wrote: »

does X or xmas fall on the same day as Christmas by any chance :whistle:

There's nothing in the bible about the date though, that came well before the Christian label on the festival.

j.e.j.

Person_one wrote: »

There's nothing in the bible about the date though, that came well before the Christian label on the festival.

But why does that matter? Christmas is celebrated on 25th December.

notanewuser

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Surely though if you say we're having our Xmas get-together people will think Christmas as it's the recognised shortened version. You need to remove all words associated with it.

I must say though that you have my total respect for living by your own belief system.

Let's hope DD's teacher sees it that way! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Person_one

j.e.j. wrote: »

But why does that matter? Christmas is celebrated on 25th December.

It matters when people are trying to claim it as exclusively a Christian celebration. It's a big mish mash of loads of traditions, and it's only because of the power and influence of the Church in this country that Christmas is the name that stuck here.

Nobody has any problem with Christians celebrating the way they want, so why are some Christians so possessive of it that they don't like anybody else doing it differently? It's not just their day, it's everybody's who wants it.

lostinrates

j.e.j. wrote: »

But why does that matter? Christmas is celebrated on 25th December.

In this country and some others;)