I don't hate it but don't particularily love it. I like meeting with family, reaching the end of the year, and bla bla, I don't like the stereotypical Xmas with Santa, deers, and jingle bells crap.

But as a day to meet family and enjoy, I have nothing against it. Though, I take it the same way as I take New Year's Eve...just an excuse to launch fireworks

Meh. Its a bit of fun. Christmas has been more about consumerism for a long time now. Couldn't care less.

Well I do hate how it went from a day to celebrate the birth of Christ to some day you get a lot of gifts; but I still enjoy it. Its as fun seeing the reactions of the people you bought gifts as it is getting them.

christmas is just an excuse for retailers to make more money.

You see, deception after deception. How depressing...

Hm...

Conclusion: are you going to create a thread about drunk people in Christmas or not?

OKay cool, thanks for clearing that up

Christianity had many tricks (including making pagan gods saints) to convert pagan cultures with little resistance. Christmas itself isn’t really a pagan holiday, because the winter solstice was chosen to celebrate Christ’s birth for symbolic reasons. Many of the traditions of Christmas do have pagan roots because when missionaries were dealing with a pagan culture they would adopt the traditions of the pagan’s winter solstice celebrations and find symbolic justification for the traditions within Christianity.

With that said, I see nothing wrong with this personally being that Canadian Multiculturalism and the American Melting Pot philosophies have their root in the Christian missionary strategies. There are few other cultures which are actually accommodating to other cultures, and because of this approach we can have such diverse cultures living in harmony.

Personally, even though I am not religious, I don’t appreciate the commercialism of Christmas; and I tend to celebrate it as a family holiday.

Almost true.

Some people try to follow only the Scriptures and I include myself into that group. It's not that easy, since you have a lot of people and worldly traditions against yourself, but, hey, it's not impossible, I mean, I have a life, I like to share and communicate with people, I have my hobbies, etc. and I try to do all this things according to my faith.

I love christmas, gonna have a gay old time this year.