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It's kind of ridiculous to point out, given the FACT that no one cares how many centuries later, why we have Christmas trees or the birth of Christ is celebrated in December.
What do you and your ilk get out of it? What are you trying to prove?
Do you celebrate the religious holidays of other religions in a non-religious way too?
Yep I celebrate Halloween by dressing up taking my son trick or treating or passing out candy.
Easter I hide hand painted eggs and eat the ears off of all the chocolate bunnies in the house.
Why would you care how I spend my day? I don't care how you spend yours.
Oh WAIT! Schools celebrate Halloween! Creepy decorations all over the place, kids dress up in costumes, they have parades and Halloween dances, and trick or treating were I have to get up and give the little heathens candy!
Halloween should be banned! Separation of religion and state and all!
Roll your eyes all you'd like. Halloween is a religious holiday. And many schools don't celebrate it anymore. But I feel the same about that as I do about Christmas: Stop getting your knickers in a twist, both sides of the argument. More important things to worry about.
Do you have no answers other than rhetoric and deflection?
I said that I don't care how you celebrate, how is that dictating to anyone how to view the holiday.
I don't get offended if someone says merry Christmas, I don't try to make them celebrate my way.
Do you celebrate the religious holidays of other religions in a non-religious way too?
Personally I do and/or have, in a non-religious way, because I recognize & appreciate the universality in the underlying human sentiments many holidays have at their base.
Actually Judaism/Jews do for Hanukkah, which is a "Menorah". Hanukkah is basically a holiday observed by Jews in predominately Christian countries where Christmas Day is a national holiday, just so Jews (especially children) have something to celebrate, as well as copy from Christians (which we have Christmas) during Christmas season. In Israel, Hanukkah is barely observed because it is a minor holiday.
How else would we have "Happy Holidays" if Hanukkah was not on the picture during the Christmas season..
Hanukkah = Anti-Christmas
What a load of you-know-what.
For one thing, Chanukah was being celebrated LONG before Christmas and Jesus even existed. It's not a major holiday, no, but is still a staple tradition to most Jewish people. And menorahs aren't really "decorations" per say, they are a specific tool used only to observe the holiday (by lighting the candles nightly) - usually they're either kept inside the home, or possibly in the window for those 8 nights to show observance to passers-by. Get over yourself; seriously.
Btw, when was the last time you had a JEW complain about Christmas decorations, greetings, etc? Outside of a few publicity-seeking crazies, it's really a non-issue to most of us. In my family (and many other Jewish families), Christmas only means everything except Chinese restaurants & movie theaters are closed. Why do you think that's become our annual tradition? LOL
Halloween is partly a Christian holiday as well. It is not any other religions holiday that you celebrate non-religious, so why lying?
Halloween, or All Hallow's Eve is the day before All Saint's Day, which is about Saints.
Valentine is a Christian holiday too, the celebration of a Christian Saint named Saint Valentine.
Now, non-Christians tries to make these holidays secular as well...
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