Atheists............?

Question

What do you do on Christmas Day?

Answer 1

Open Presents, visit family, eat food. And enjoy a traditional day of no religion.  

Answer 2

I used to shoot massive amounts of Heroin, but I ceased that practice a decade ago.

So now, I drink a few Liters of vodka and smoke a carton of cigarettes instead.

Answer 3

christians?......what do you do on halloween?

Answer 4

Well, I like giving gifts, and it would pretty awful to around getting out of buying gifts for friends and family by saying I'm an atheist, so I just view it as a bit of fun, most people, in the UK anyway, who do the whole christman thing don't go to church or have any specific beliefs in any case:)

Answer 5

I sleep in, chill out, and later on get together with friends and exchange presents, usually with that whole hokey Christmas tree stuff. We eat well and have a good time. At some point, multiplayer Wii games may be involved.

Answer 6

Get together with family, open presents, have a nice dinner.  I'm sure you've heard this before but December 25th was not the actually birth date of Jesus.  In reality December 25th was chosen by the Roman Catholic church in order to correspond with the pagan holiday of the Winter Solstice and make the pagan conversion to christianity easier.

Answer 7

A lot of drinking. Exchange gifts mostly, as they did before it was known as christmas. Like most holidays this was taken from 'pagan' holidays.

Answer 8

As my wife is ethnically Jewish, we do the Usual Jewish Christmas: Chinese food and a movie.  

Answer 9

THAT'S A PAGAN HOLIDAY!

idk this is relig here, see holidays ,

WORSHOP THE TRUNITY !!!!

Answer 10

well mabel that depends, it changes each year, soemtiems we are alone, sometiems we have company for dinner, sometiems we go to others houses for dinner, sometimes we just sit and watch xmas tv, sometimes we eat and eat and eat, sometimes we watch some movies

usually its eating, watching and alone, and thats how we like it

i love xmas tv, i love to sit with a duvet, heater on , hot choc and some comfort food and just watch the xmas tv,

thats one of my fave fantasys, i wait all year for it, im a winter gal myself

;-)

Answer 11

Go hang with my family, open presents, have diner.  Typical Christmas, but made secular by not thanking Jesus for the new socks and desk calendar.

Answer 12

I eat and visit with my family and friends, and exchange gifts.

In other words, I personally celebrate Christmas without the religious aspect. It's a pagan holiday anyways, and even goes earlier than that. Dec 25th is in no way Christian, it's older than Christianity with a big Christian mask on it.

Answer 13

Exchange presents and eat turkey. After all, December 25 is not the birth of the mythical 'christ' but is instead the celebration of the return of the sun after the winter solstice. Christians hijacked a perfectly good holiday, and the theiving wretches should give it back.

Answer 14

ACtually all the traditions form christmas are pagan ones so why not do them. But this will be my first x-mas as an atheist so i don't think i'll give gift since that has to do with the whole baby jebus thing.  

Answer 15

i visit my family for dinner and presents and get drunk.  i love it.  i stay at home and eat while the christians in my family are at church.  and i watch all the good stuff like 'charlie brown christmas' and 'emmet otter's jugband christmas',  a 'christmas story', etc.

Answer 16

I practice the same pagan customs that the Christians do, giving gifts, decorating the tree, having a feast, etc.

The better question is, why do Christians practice these pagan customs.  You would think their god would frown on that.

Answer 17

The rest of my family is still Catholic, so I exchange gifts with them, usually go to a relative's house for dinner, etc. Even while I was still Catholic we didn't go to church or anything; Christmas was created as a way to rival pagan holidays that used to be in December (hence Christmas being December 25 when scholars think Jesus is more likely to have been born in the spring), so really it's not that religious of a holiday unless you want it to be. I happen to like Christmas, it's a festive occasion, I like seeing friends and family, and see no reason why I should socially isolate myself from this time of year because I have different beliefs than my family.  

Answer 18

Same thing as everyone else: rape and pillage villages because i have no morals.

Really I just visit my parents, chill out, sleep, open presents, and get fat from all candy and feasting.

Answer 19

This is the number one commercial holiday of the year. What do you think that atheists do? Some join in the party. At least they do not pretend that it is the birthday of jesus, a ridiculous pagan-based claim that no one takes seriously except true believers who don't read.

Answer 20

Celebrate Christmas which is not a christian festival. It is the feast of saturnalia which in the old days people ate as much of the food as the could of that which would not last the winter. The early christian church used it as they used easter and the idea of a god like figure dying and being reborn 3 days later

Answer 21

I make observations about religion's impact on the weak minded and society all day.  My family (who are all Christians) get to listen to me.  That's my gift.  And there's no receipt LOL

Answer 22

After a feast of roast babby, we travel about town, lighting outdoor creches afire while singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas."  Ho, ho, ho!

Answer 23

Not much of anything. We have dinner and exchange gifts on 12/24. If you are asking whether we celebrate the birth of Christ, no. Christ wasn't even born on 12/25 he was more than likely born in the fall according to most scholars. 12/25 marked the winter solstice. It was a pagan holiday. Why do you celebrate then?

Answer 24

What do non-catholic, non-Irish people do on St. Patrick's Day? What do non-pagans do on Halloween? What do non-Mexicans do on Cinco de Mayo? What to the unemployed to on Labor Day? What do non-veterans do on Veteran's day? The list of holidays this country has appropriated, renamed or created from scratch for its own means is virtually endless...

Welcome to the melting pot.

Answer 25

Exchange gifts; family dinner.  The winter solstice festival was around a long time before it was co-opted by the Church.

Answer 26

Decorate a pagan tree, eat a pagan dinner, burn a pagan Yule log, and give gifts to each other in the pagan way.

What do you do on a pagan holiday such as Christmas?

Answer 27

Get given presents and cry if i dont get the right things.

and,you know, the whole sacraficing goats thing.

Why, don't you do that?

Answer 28

I celebrate Saturnalia just like everyone else by engaging in gluttony and crass commercialism, and David Yurman, Juicy and Coach celebrate that I have limited creativity in choosing gifts for my girls.

Answer 29

exchange presents, of course.  Christmas is a capitalist holiday, not a religious one.  did you not get the memo?

Answer 30

Usually go visit grandparents to give them their gifts if they weren't at the christmas eve dinner.

Only too happy to participate in the commercialization of the holiday...in principal.

I'm usually sick of christmas before november is halfway over. You christians need to take your d**n holiday away from consumer culture. Stupid music, stupid fake cheerful frazzled cashiers, stupid neocon propagandist crybaby liars, stupid traveling, stupid not having half the gas stations open when you need gas.

Thank the flying spaghetti monster for steriotypic hindu/muslim businesspeople. :P

The turkey and dressing is nice tho, I'll take any excuse to have that stuff.

Answer 31

Open my presents with my family, eat Christmas Dinner and then sit around with family playing with stuff I got, eating chocolates and watching films.