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π••π•šπ•’π•Ÿπ•–π•’ πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ¦‹ • diaspora
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anubis2814
anubis2814 • friendica
Same reason why Atheist Jews celebrate Passover with family.
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Jay Bryant
Jay Bryant • diaspora
I put up lights in the age-old, pre-Christian tradition of adding some light to the darkest time of the year.
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AladΓ‘r MΓ©zga
AladΓ‘r MΓ©zga • diaspora
To my knowledge the trees are a rather recent (18xx) addition. I too celebrate it, simply for tradition. I don't go to any church, just try to create a pleasant environment.
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Jess Nut
Jess Nut • diaspora

I'm an atheist raised by atheists. We did all the non-religious Xmas stuff. Tree, presents, big meal, etc. Our tree didn't have a star or an angel on top. We didn't go to mass or have a manger scene. I honestly didn't even know about that aspect of Christmas until I was an older kid and saw what friends had at their place.

I know Jewish people who do Xmas just because it's so much a part of the American culture and they grew up being basically forced to participate in school and with their non-Jewish friends.

Now as a singleton with no kids and no family nearby I usually do nothing or get Chinese food with the other non-participants. I used to work, to cover for the people that do participate, but my current job just closes for the week between Xmas and New Years so I'm off regardless.

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anubis2814
anubis2814 • friendica
@Jess Nut Yup when i was single Chinese food was my holiday ritual.
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Bellarome
Bellarome • diaspora
Floridians should find this an interesting school lesson from the
bible.
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Jay Bryant
Jay Bryant • diaspora
@Jess Nut Zactly. I would volunteer to be the on-call developer, because I had nothing going on anyway. I hadn't thought about Chinese. I was thinking of getting a pizza the night before and having the leftovers. I could get behind some pot stickers and Mongolian beef, though. πŸ™‚
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Whuffo
Whuffo • diaspora
Japanese go for KFC during the holidays.
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frater chaos
frater chaos • diaspora
there was a time in early america where christians condemned anyone for putting up a tree. it was considered pagan
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Adam Hunt
Adam Hunt • diaspora
It is pagan! There are no Christmas trees in the New Testament!
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π••π•šπ•’π•Ÿπ•–π•’ πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ¦‹ • diaspora
With enough Christian word salad, you can fit the complete engineering designs for the Intel Pentium in the Bible
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Jess Nut
Jess Nut • diaspora

The early Puritan settlers banned Christmas. Fun to mention that when people talk about what the "founding fathers" wanted.

https://theweek.com/articles/479313/when-americans-banned-christmas

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