Thread: Does Christmas offend you?

For a lot of people that do not celebrate Christmas, it's very annoying to live in a supposedly secular nation that is so heavily entrenched in christian dogma. Christmas isn't just a brief celebration anymore. It takes up the entire month of December with decoration, music, and television programs. It even worms it's way into November, with store displays and other commercialism aspects. As Rudolph Quin mentioned, it isn't the holiday itself that is offensive. It's the overbearing domination it has over the culture that is offensive. It simply makes people who do not celebrate it feel like a minority. Then add in the fact that any slight against Christmas automatically makes you some kind of villain. It's all over the media, with this supposed War Against Christmas. Our culture automatically alienates and criminalizes to an extent, those that speak out against Christmas and Christianity as a whole. MsMuffintops said I think those who are offended by it put too much thought into it, that or they simply have some cynicism towards Christianity. They believe in a fairytale. If that's the case, so do many other religions. Why single out Christianity? There's no proof Jesus exists. It's called faith for a reason. He couldn't have been born that time of the year! The church is well aware of that, you guys aren't the first to realize it. Virgin Mary? Seriously? Actually, scientifically, it's not completely farfetched. And nowadays, Jesus' birth is just a minor role in the whole scheme of things, even for many Christian families. It's evolved so much and many cultures, denominations, and families have learned to make this time of year their own thing, whether they celebrate Jesus' birth, anything religious for that matter, or not. Click to expand... Because Christianity unfairly dominates a nation that is supposed to be secular. They're the most outspoken religion, and their media groups slam and put down anything that speaks out against their ways-- or is simply different. Faith is ignorance. It's literally ignorance, so that's a horrible argument to be made. You don't actually know, so you just have faith that something is real or going to happen. Yeah, but it speaks volumes about how the religion advocates falsehoods. It would certainly be far-fetched at that time. Besides, he's not even the first god-like figure to be born in such a way. I do agree with your assertion that it's less and less of a religious holiday. I know for a fact that even atheists celebrate the holiday purely for the fun of it, and the commercialism aspects. For those that are not religiously minded, I'm sure that some of them have no problem with Christmas or celebrating it. While I don't particularly like much about the holiday I don't like the decorations or the music, I don't have a problem with celebrating it. However, I find it very grating for it to be everywhere. That being said, those people of other religions, probably find it to be very annoying, or even somewhat insulting for another religions holiday to be shoved in their face. I'm almost certain the Christian organizations, or bodies, would be up in arms if something overshadowed Christmas like Christmas overshadows Hanukkah. All of a sudden, then, I'm sure there will be a major problem.