This is a question exclusively for those who do not keep Christmas. Please refrain from commenting if you are not of this conviction.
If you don't celebrate Christmas, is it justifiable to partake in Christmas traditions? The main tradition I'd like to focus on is gift-giving. But I guess the question extends to the traditional Christmas dinner too. But focus on gift-giving if you can.
Yes you've at least taken Christ out of it, but why take part in it at all? Surely it's the sin of others that is prompting you to take part in the tradition at all? In an ideal Christian society, surely there would be no mention of a December gift-giving? The whole tradition has no Scriptural roots, only pagan and eventually Catholic.
What do you think?
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If you don't celebrate Christmas, is it justifiable to partake in Christmas traditions? The main tradition I'd like to focus on is gift-giving. But I guess the question extends to the traditional Christmas dinner too. But focus on gift-giving if you can.
Yes you've at least taken Christ out of it, but why take part in it at all? Surely it's the sin of others that is prompting you to take part in the tradition at all? In an ideal Christian society, surely there would be no mention of a December gift-giving? The whole tradition has no Scriptural roots, only pagan and eventually Catholic.
What do you think?
---------- Post added at 10:04 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:03 AM ----------
If there is a better forum to put this in please move it.