Frankly speaking, I don’t celebrate Chinese New Year. While I respect the tradition, I don’t like the origin of that festival.
So I thought Chinese New Year for Chinese is as Christmas for the West or majority Christians. Any of you are not going to celebrate it? If you don’t partake the celebration, will you be seen as the betrayer of your custom?
Just asking. No intention for debate.
I won’t be celebrating Christmas this year. It will be a day like any other. Lonely alone confused with my head swimming
Although I’m an atheist, I will be enjoying the celebration and the company of family.
My family is not very Christian. We will get together and eat. But that’s not an exclusively Christmas activity.
My Mom and my Sis are more into today… (Dec 21) Winter Solstice. First day of winter and shortest day of the year…
This side of the earth turns around now and makes it orbit back to the sun.
Our family will celebrate it, but in a non religious way.
We will get together on Christmas Eve, eat a lot of food (except for me) and exchange gifts - its more of a family reunion than anything else
What are you celebrating? I mean, what IS the point of Christmas? It is just a massive binge-fest really, that’s all. Why does an atheist feel the need to celebrate it? Why not stick to your principles and make it an ordinary day? Why sell out? It’s rank hypocrisy.
And this Christ character. Do you people really think he exists? Why? Sooner or later most people realise that this fictitious character isn’t going to ‘ride to the rescue’ to get them out of an ugly hole. I know I have. Oh yes, I have heard the bollocks about us needing to have faith. It’s always the same. But when you think you are on the verge of a total mental breakdown, faith just doesn’t cut it. In fact, faith can make things worse. It can make you delusional. Isn’t it funny how people who claim to have seen signs from God are totally clueless as to what these signs are all about. I know I was. I thought God was sending signs to me on the sides of vans. That’s the sort of damage faith can do. It’s all ■■■■■■■■.
Seasons gratings,
Padster
If you don’t celebrate Christmas you just miss out. That’s all.
Christmas is fun. It’s festive,
My parents are Christian so I get to sing songs at church on Christmas eve 
I’m trying to convince my parents to go easy on presents and just have a nice family get together cuz presents are expensive and it feels like we are obligated to buy every year.
I’d imagine it can be a lonely time of year for some and a good time for others with those with a family.
I’ll be celebrating but minimally. Just Christmas dinner and a few gifts. My mother insists that I honor the pagan tradition. But I have a want of nothing.
i love christmas because of the kids. i loved seeing their faces when they were little on christmas morning, opening the mountain of gifts we got them, pretending they were from father christmas. as they got a little older, half were from us and half father christmas and when the spell wore off, just from us. now they are 15 and 17 and their father has passed away, it’s way different. now we have early christmas because we had it like that the year their father died, simply because we knew he woldn’t make it to the 25th. we had our early christmas on the 1st december and he died on the 2nd. so now those two days are our christmas. we go out to dinner with all the family and his friends to our favourite restauraunt to celebrate his life and then the next day, i cook a traditional christmas dinner for about 13 people, all people that knew him. my son Maximillian takes vinnie’s place at the head of the table, there’s mountains of food and we have a great time, the kids put the decorations up while i’m cooking and they set up the tables and make them look nice. my daughter (step) comes over from ireland…it’s brilliant. hard work but great fun. then when proper christmas comes we’ll have a quiet day with another dinner just for me and max as sam goes to her boyfriends as her boyfriend comes to us for early christmas. so i’ll be cooking again christmas day, then this year on boxing day we’re supposed to be going to my mum’s for a buffet and staying the night but i’m not sure i want to this year. i think i’d rather make my own buffet and have the kids invite their friends over for a drink and some food but it depends how much money i have left once i’ve finished with the presents. the kids get their main present for black friday or cyber monday which ever they prefer. i give them £100 each and they spend it on whatever they like then i get them little presents for christmas day (25th) i save all year for christmas so that we can do and buy what we like and celebrate in style. i’m not religious but i respect other people’s religious views. for us it’s just time for a party and gifts and good food and good company…yeah…i love christmas!!!
You hypocrite! Call yourself an atheist? You are a disgrace. This annual festival of excess was indeed originally pagan, but those pagans were still worshipping a deity of some sort, so you don’t get out of it that easily. Call it Christmas, call it Saturnalia or Sol Invictus. It doesn’t matter. It still makes you out to be a stinking hypocrite whichever way you cut it. You are celebrating a festival to a deity you don’t believe in, whether that be Jesus Christ, Bacchus or any of the sun religion gods. What a disappointment you atheists are. A true atheist would not be celebrating this festival AT ALL. It goes against everything he or she doesn’t believe in. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Best wishes,
Padster
Trust me I don’t want to its a family obligation. Tell you what though as an atheist it really doesn’t matter. I certainly won’t have any deities in mind.
I’m not celebrating Christmas because I am Muslim
That’s bollocks Brian. You are just like Prof. Dawkins. He said grace at his old college because he felt ‘obligated’, just like you. When it come to the crunch, the both of you haven’t got the balls to be different. You don’t wish to feel uncomfortable or cause a scene. It’s pathetic. You are as lukewarm in your unbelief as your average pseudo-Christian is in their beliefs. Where atheism is concerned, you talk a good game, but you don’t really put it into practice. Just like Dawkins.
Think about that as you shove the turkey and veg down your hypocritical gob.
Best wishes,
Padster
Lol 16 characters
Why not? Though I am Hindu but I respect others religion always. I am going to celebrate “Christmas”
Me + my Christmas tree. My brother works + rest of the family too away.
On the inside I’m very cynical, sardonic, analytical about the holidays but on the outside I’m very mild, agreeable, and super-nice. I observe Christmas but I don’t celebrate it.
dont let the term “atheist” define you either. just be “bryan” thats who you are. I always find it interesting people let themselves be defined by a certain set of beliefs.
Yeah I’m getting better at that. Most atheists are agnostic anyways. There is no way to know for sure. Takes faith either way. But yeah Bryan’s gonna celebrate Xmas.