Shak
December 27, 2013, 8:13pm
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Re: Christmas Festivities
Thanksgiving does not, nor ever has had any religious significance or origin whatsoever. It’s purely a North American historical thing. Nothing more, nothing less.
Halloween is considered by the vast majority to be secular as well. The people who do “celebrate” it in the religious sense have nothing to do with candy or Disney costumes or trick or treating.
With Christmas, Jesus is the reason for the season. Christians believe they are celebrating the birth of their Lord and Savior. Hazrat Isa (AS) is not our Lord nor our Savior. Nor is there any proof of his birth in the month of December, let alone Dec 25th. Some non Christians (muslims, jews, agnostics, etc) may feel comfortable separating the consumer and cultural aspects from the religious, and “celebrate” the secular parts of the holiday, but I do not, so I tell my kids that we do not need to “celebrate” something in our home with gifts and whatnot that we don’t have any belief in. Plain and simple.
If someone gives our family a Christmas gift, we accept it graciously. I allow my kids to give their teacher a gift at the class holiday parties because I also acknowledge Eid with them as well.
In regards to “missing out” on Christmas, it’s a non issue in our household…No tears, no drama, no second thoughts.
To be honest after a decade or so even Christmas will lose what little religious significance it has. Here none of the English people I know are remotely religious nor even know what Christmas is for properly yet still celebrate it!