I grew up in a very religious household/extended family. When I was 19, I became agnostic. But I actually really enjoy the Christmas season and decorations. It doesn’t have a religious tie to me, but it has a nostalgic tie to me.
My husband is VERY jaded/exhausted/raged by Christianity as a whole. Their very existence pisses him off. So naturally, Christmas pisses him off.
But in a fantasy world where we could all get past this bullshit – I’d honestly be happy with either. I grew up with artificial trees, but real trees always seemed better. But killing trees to be a decoration in your home for a month seems wrong…
Final answer- artificial tree would be my choice if I decorated.
It doesn’t have to be a religious celebration. Just copy the USSR and celebrate the parts of Christmas you want (putting up a tree, gift exchanges) on New Years.
While I certainly feel the rage, the tree is yet another decoration the Christians copped from the pagans they sought to drown out. It’s yule, not what Jesus put in his home for his birthday (not that he was actually born in the winter anyway, they rewrote that too). Eggs and bunnies are pagan fertility things, not what phasewalker Jesus handed out from the tomb.
While I know it’s clearly a Christian symbol now, you can’t change what makes you nostalgic.
Anyway, I don’t know about everyone else, but it was only this summer I learned that “pagan” just means ANY religion that isn’t Christian. I assume it’s more the various Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo sects in the European Christian range.
I feel like I’m “not allowed” either.
I grew up in a very religious household/extended family. When I was 19, I became agnostic. But I actually really enjoy the Christmas season and decorations. It doesn’t have a religious tie to me, but it has a nostalgic tie to me.
My husband is VERY jaded/exhausted/raged by Christianity as a whole. Their very existence pisses him off. So naturally, Christmas pisses him off.
But in a fantasy world where we could all get past this bullshit – I’d honestly be happy with either. I grew up with artificial trees, but real trees always seemed better. But killing trees to be a decoration in your home for a month seems wrong…
Final answer- artificial tree would be my choice if I decorated.
It doesn’t have to be a religious celebration. Just copy the USSR and celebrate the parts of Christmas you want (putting up a tree, gift exchanges) on New Years.
While I certainly feel the rage, the tree is yet another decoration the Christians copped from the pagans they sought to drown out. It’s yule, not what Jesus put in his home for his birthday (not that he was actually born in the winter anyway, they rewrote that too). Eggs and bunnies are pagan fertility things, not what phasewalker Jesus handed out from the tomb.
While I know it’s clearly a Christian symbol now, you can’t change what makes you nostalgic.
Anyway, I don’t know about everyone else, but it was only this summer I learned that “pagan” just means ANY religion that isn’t Christian. I assume it’s more the various Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo sects in the European Christian range.