Everyone — Define what "Christmas" is to you, in one sentence?
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"Christmas or Christmas Day is a holiday observed mostly on December 25 to commemorate the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity."
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That time of year when radio stations like to play really annoying Christmas songs over and over again till your head explodes.
Buying gifts for the people you care about and gift cards for those people that you see once a year and fruitcake for people you hate.
Killing a poor defenseless tree and then having pine needles all over your house forever. They DO smell great though.
Also, I have to second the people who said it was originally a Pagan holiday to celebrate solstice. Even the tree is a Pagan custom. Christmas is actually just a weird hybrid of Christian and Pagan beliefs.
The only thing truly Christian about it is the concept of Santa Clause who is based off of Saint Nicholas who was a real saint. Ironic huh?
Exception means that something is excluded from something. Put another way: If you're excepted from a group of people, you're not part of that very group. It can also mean that something is rather unusual, not the way it normally is. Example: "All computer guys are pale nerds. Well, except for Andrew, he's a surfer and a computer guy, but he's just the exception that proves the rule." Acception is a synonyme of acceptance. Like when you apply for a college, if they let you in you will receive a letter of acceptance / a letter of acception. Example: "Acception for gays and lesbians on TV is far greater today than it was twenty years ago. People have started to accept others the way they are."
In response to "A pagan solstice celebration bastardized by Christianity to commemorate the birth of Jesus" and "Its a Christian holiday used to cover up the solstice, celebrated by pagans."
1) I don't see December 25th on the pagan calendar:
http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/holidays%E2%80%A6
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/tools/cale%E2%80%A6
2) The winter solstice is an astronomical event.
3) For half the planet, the winter solstice occurs in June, not December.
The celebration of the conception of Emmanuel.
Christmas has its roots in pre-Christian religions, the reason merely being changed from appeasing the sun so that it returned in springtime, or the Saturnalia, or whatever other feasts were celebrated in mid-winter, and it's now a mostly secular holiday, as well as being used to boost commercial activity.
An invention of Roman Catholicism.
In 46 BCE, Julius Caesar in his Julian calendar established December 25 as the date of the winter solstice of Europe. Since the event is seen as the reversal of the Sun's ebbing presence in the sky, concepts of the birth or rebirth of sun gods have been common and, in cultures using winter solstitially based cyclic calendars, the year as reborn has been celebrated with regard to life-death-rebirth deities or new beginnings such as Hogmanay's redding, a New Year cleaning tradition. In Greek mythology, the gods and goddesses met on the winter and summer solstice, and Hades was permitted on Mount Olympus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice
The jubilant celebration of That which Was, Is and Is to Come.
Have a nice day.
A pagan solstice celebration bastardized by Christianity to commemorate the birth of Jesus. Wiki is an unreliable source as anyone can go in and edit entries.
yes its a day for religious people and not for atheist they should work 365 days
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Another December day.