Survey: Christmas and Religion

[The Bloody Talon]

yeah, read it after i post. sorry.

 

[mdolszak]

15-year-old Roman Catholic; I celebrate Christmas.

 

[thackernerd]

12 year old christian who celebrates Christmas.

 

[Stefan]

Why is there a star in front of question 3? Why do you require a religion?

 

[Muesli]

I celebrate the "Lets get drunk and eat too much and give gifts to each other just because it's fun and the weather fricking miserable in winter so we all need a break" festival.

That's all it ever has been for me.

 

[chrissyD]

17 years old
athiest
Don't celebrate Christmas. Why waste money?

 

[Stefan]

Don't celebrate Christmas. Why waste money?

So, you never celebrate anything?

 

[chrissyD]

So, you never celebrate anything?

Nope.

 

[d4m4s74]

I celebrate holiday, which is really just christmas combined with an answer to "you're an atheist, why do you celebrate christmas" question that doesn't require a five minute explanation they don't believe anyway (christmas was originally a pagan festival, you stole it from them, that's where the tree is from, christ wasn't even born in december, that kind of things).
I mean, it's much easier to say "I don't, I celebrate a different holiday which coincidentally falls around the same date, just like Hanukkah, Kwanzaa,etc.

 

[Specs112]

I celebrate holiday, which is really just christmas combined with an answer to "you're an atheist, why do you celebrate christmas" question that doesn't require a five minute explanation they don't believe anyway (christmas was originally a pagan festival, you stole it from them, that's where the tree is from, christ wasn't even born in december, that kind of things).
I mean, it's much easier to say "I don't, I celebrate a different holiday which coincidentally falls around the same date, just like Hanukkah, Kwanzaa,etc.

Festivus.

 

[Stefan]

Nope.

Well, I'd say you're odd and that most people do celebrate lots of stuff. Holidays, anniversaries, they or "their team" achieving/winning something...

Anyway, the point and the answer to your question is that it's not a waste of money if you get something for it that's worth it for you.

 

[hic2482w]

13 year old atheist who celebrates christmas.

 

[DarthCuber]

14 year old anti-theist who celebrates Christmas.

Only reason I've written it this way is because of your post.
I'm sorry if it sounded offending in any way.

 

[RyanO]

The last question was hard for me to answer. I think commercialization and religion both take away from Christmas, but there wasn't an option for that.

 

[AgentKuo]

Why does the survey ask gender? And why isn't "other" an option? (just wondering)

I finished the survey.

 

[cubersmith]

Being with family is the main part of Christmas

That's your opinion. Christmas means different things to different people

 

[Cheese11]

Only for christians.

Noooo, if we didn't have religion, we wouldn't have Christmas.

 

[Cheese11]

True, but for me, Christmas is just a waste of money in general, people waste so much money buying those trees and then not to forget about the lights. Some people just leave those lights on throughout the whole day for the whole Christmas season wasting so much electricity. Pointless, just my opinion though, don't get offended.

No I'm not offended. In fact, I have a lot of respect for non-Christians that don't celebrate Christmas.

 

[TheMachanga]

15 y/o Roman Catholic, celebrates Christmas.

 

[Daniel Wu]

Thanks to everyone that has responded so far. Much appreciated. I'm not sure exactly where I'm going from here as far as the paper (as my English teacher wants things done a specific way). Interesting results so far though.