Do you celebrate Christmas?

[Esaias]

Well, do ya?

[Luke]

When i was growing up our family did the santa thing and all. Now that i am married but have no kids or money i am really hoping that santa is really so he can bring me and my wife some presents lol. No i dont know if my wife and i will do the santa thing with our kids when we have them but we will decorate our house and have a tree and celebrate Christmas.

[kclee4jc]

I spend time with family. All of my family as well as my church believes in Christmas. I really don't. I celebrate to spend time with family and participate to some extent in their festivities. Other than that I don't get to involved.

It is a developing conviction for me.

[Ferd]

yep.

if people keep saying silly things about being lost if you celebrate Christmas, I am going to go home and sing Oh Christmas Tree too!

[Praxeas]

I don't have my own place so I don't get a tree.

However I have no problem with having a tree and decorating it as a festive family occasion but it has nothing really to do with Jesus other than what people make of it.

I have no problem either with celebrating the birth of Jesus but our Modern day Christmas is not really about Jesus except a very small part. It's about commercialism (Spending tons of saved up money). I believe we are essentially slaves to a smart marketing campaign just as we are on Easter, Mothers day etc etc. It's all about spending money.

The Festive nature of it all is being used to get us into the mood to spend spend spend.

Having said that, I still have no problem with that if that is what one wants to do but even better I have no problem with celebrating the birth of Jesus if that is what one wants to do

[Godzchild]

Originally Posted by Ferd

yep.

if people keep saying silly things about being lost if you celebrate Christmas, I am going to go home and sing Oh Christmas Tree too!

Sing it loudly so that the scrooges from the other thread will hear you....

[Godzchild]

Originally Posted by Luke

When i was growing up our family did the santa thing and all. Now that i am married but have no kids or money i am really hoping that santa is really so he can bring me and my wife some presents lol. No i dont know if my wife and i will do the santa thing with our kids when we have them but we will decorate our house and have a tree and celebrate Christmas.

we will continue the cycle of Santa in my home

[Godzchild]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and we are not *lost* , teaching lies to our children or going to hell for it either!

[RandyWayne]

My wife and I have a tradition where be buy one fairly large gift for the two of us, and get it long before Christmas itself. We bought ours last night! Since we're buying it earlier and earlier it won't be too many years before we "lap" ourselves and will soon be getting TWO. LOL

We do decorate our house pretty well also. Have a 10 foot (artificial) tree and a few hundred feet of LED Christmas lights for the outside, as well as the inside. Christmas is also a great time to see what sort of new drinks we can make to introduce even more Holiday Cheer.

Oh yes, we "gave ourselves" a GoPro Hero3+ "Black Edition" sports video camera. We want to start filming some of our hikes and times when we go swimming at the beach since this thing is waterproof to 131 feet.

[Truthseeker]

it's just fleshly feel good fun.