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Well, considering he wasn't born then....anyone can celebrate it.

Yes, some celebrate it as secular Christmas, some celebrate a holiday called Yule, or Winter Solstice in a manner similar to Christmas... Originally, Christmas was a "moveable feast" in the early days of the Catholic Church. What that means is that it was left up to individual congregations to celebrate the birth of Christ when ever they wanted to schedule such a celebration, and they did not celebrate it the way they do now. Later they set the date to coincide with the Pagan Winter Solstice celebrations, for a variety of reasons, maybe because everybody else was doing something that time of year, but also just to set a specific date on the calender. Christmas was not really celebrated the way we do now until fairly recently, only the last couple hundred years, it was mostly a day of prayer and fasting... Most people look forward to a season of light in whatever package it comes in, it helps us all through the dark, long nights and shorter days of winter, and gives us time to spend with our loved ones when we might not have as much chance during the busier summer, it's all good.... greetings of the season to you....

These days the holiday has been so secularized and is actually claimed by so many different religions, that it isn't strange at all. The holiday now called Christmas was taken from the pagan tradition of Saturnalia and Yule. The Jews have Hanuka, then there's Diwali and several other winter-based holidays. Even non-religious people like to celebrate the change of seasons with parties, gifts, etc. I think it is almost just part of human nature.

Don't forget all us Protestants out here! We love Jesus, too!

Christmas is NOT a pagan holiday! The Winter Solstice is a Pagan holiday. It was borrowed by the Christians because it was a convenient time of the year when people were A) Not otherwise involved with planting, raising, or harvesting crops, and B) there was a party going on, anyway.

No studied Christian believes that Jesus was actually born in December. From the biblical description, it was probably late September / early October (Gregorian calendar) -- just after the harvest.

CHRISTmas (with the emphasis on CHRIST) is a Christian Holiday. If you Pagans want to delay your celebration (the Winter Solstice is 4 days earlier) and party with us, that's fine with me!

Merry CHRISTmas.

Yes us pagans celebrate christmas because it is of pagan origins (oo i can just hear the christians clicking those thumbs down buttons a mile away). I celebrate the pagan aspect by myself.

When it's with my family i do not sing carols, do not pray, say grace etc. Then it's just about giving and receiving, and spending time with the people i love.

Presents are good, but that's not what it's about. Although the atheist part of me says all hail the roasted babby!

Yes, I am one of those people. Though I think of it as more a day to spend with my loved ones and exchange presents as an expression of that love.

Oh, and Jesus wasn't born in December so the only thing you're celebrating is the winter solstice. But don't worry, even if you don't sacrifice a virgin the sun will still come up tomorrow.

I'm not Catholic or even Christian, I'm a Hellenic Polytheist and I celebrate Christmas, for the presents.

All branches of mainstream Christianity celebrate Christmas. Some "sects" which claim to be part of the Christian faith, such as Jehovah's Witness do not celebrate Christmas.

I am not a catholic, if by that you mean a member of the church of Rome, but I am a protestant Evangelical christian and I certainly celebrate Christmas for it is the time when we recognize that Jesus was made man for us. So that he could be our example.

There are many other christians that celebrate Christmas that are not Catholic.

No offense, yet are you feeling ok right this moment? the place do you get this stupid theory (the assumption is stupid, no longer you) that we Catholics do no longer have fun Christmas??? we ought to consistently bypass to Mass on Dec. twenty 5th -- this is a non secular legal accountability for Catholics to attend Mass on Christmas Day to mark the beginning of Christ. What, then, is your foundation for asserting that Catholics do no longer have fun Christmas? by utilising the way, in maximum years, by utilising the time Dec. twenty 5th rolls around, Hannukah is throughout. i've got been Catholic all my existence -- no longer consistently a stable one, admittedly -- and by no skill replace into I advised that I had to have fun Hannukah. and by no skill replace into I advised that i did no longer ought to have fun Christmas.