Why do non-Christians Celebrate Christian Holidays?

[Riders]

Exactly I think of it as Pagan anyways

 

[rusra02]

Around the time of Christmas and Resurrection Sunday I always ask myself this question and others. Such as, how and why advertisers and department stores decide to use Christian holidays to push their merchandise and why we as Christians let it happen. It is really out of hand. Christian holidays are not what they could and should be. The term holiday is taken from two words: Holy and Day and seem to mean nothing anymore. It really makes me wonder why. No other religions Holy Days are commercialized and secularized like Christmas and Resurrection Sunday. We have 365 days in a year (366 in leap years). Couldn't someone have picked another day?

Neither Christmas nor Easter are Christian, IMO. Their origin is in pagan religion and mirror the beliefs and practices of those religions. December 17 through January 1 marked a period during which "most Romans feasted, gamed, reveled, paraded, and joined in other festivities as they paid homage to their deities,” says Christmas in America. The Romans celebrated the birth of the Invincible Sun December 25. I believe it was apostate "Christians" who absorbed these days while retaining their pagan trappings. Little wonder we see the excesses so common by many celebrating these days.

 

[Skwim]

Around the time of Christmas and Resurrection Sunday I always ask myself this question and others. Such as, how and why advertisers and department stores decide to use Christian holidays to push their merchandise and why we as Christians let it happen.

Don't kid yourself, Christian merchants actively promoted the commercialization, and almost all other Christians actively bought into it, delighting in the enterprise. It's what the majority of Christians want. If Christians didn't want to spend money on gifts and such do you think merchants would bother trying to sell it? Of course not. So don't lay the onus on the shop keepers.

NO DEMAND - NO SUPPLY simple as that.

Christian holidays are not what they could and should be.

Your opinion, of course. So

The term holiday is taken from two words: Holy and Day and seem to mean nothing anymore. It really makes me wonder why. No other religions Holy Days are commercialized and secularized like Christmas and Resurrection Sunday. We have 365 days in a year (366 in leap years). Couldn't someone have picked another day?

For what? Do you actually think it would make a difference?


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[Ana.J]

You do realize that Christianity took the already in place pagan holidays, put a window dressing on them, and then claimed that they were because of Jesus?

And how exactly do we get Easter bunnies from the resurrection story?

Yes, I know that Christianity took pagan holidays to integrate the religion to people's lives. And it didn't go smooth, you know

 

[Neo Deist]

Yes, I know that Christianity took pagan holidays to integrate the religion to people's lives. And it didn't go smooth, you know

Ok, so it is not pushing the Christian holidays so much as it is pushing worldly holidays, like Yule, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, etc. Yes, in the USA Christianity has a corner on that holiday season. Trees, decorations, toys for kids...not original to Christianity.