I thought that Christmas trees had a completely pagan origin? :\
But yeah, why not? You don't need to adhere to a religion to enjoy its holidays. Here we kind of celebrate everything regardless of personal beliefs, because holidays are fun, and most of the time there's good food involved. And with Christmas in particular it started out as a winter solstice festival, so there were non-Christians already celebrating it to begin with, and then the Christians just decided to join in on the celebrations. So it's more of an all-purpose time of holidaying, and people can celebrate it for religious or non-religious reasons.
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Date: 2009-12-17 02:50 pm (UTC)But yeah, why not? You don't need to adhere to a religion to enjoy its holidays. Here we kind of celebrate everything regardless of personal beliefs, because holidays are fun, and most of the time there's good food involved. And with Christmas in particular it started out as a winter solstice festival, so there were non-Christians already celebrating it to begin with, and then the Christians just decided to join in on the celebrations. So it's more of an all-purpose time of holidaying, and people can celebrate it for religious or non-religious reasons.