How Christian is your Christmas?

My Christmas is as Christian as I am.

Jackiest

My Christmas is as Christian as I am.

Christmas is as Christian as your beliefs make it.

My celebrations are Christian centered. DH is a chorister whose job it is to commemorate Jesus' advent and birth.
I don't complain if other people want to celebrate differently.

I'm going to try to sew up a knitted Nativity set this afternoon 😁

Not very, although I do have faith in God. I am not religious because I dislike what I see happening within organised churches.

I'm not a Christian so there is no Christianity in my Christmas. Although it's now referred to as Christmas, mid-Winter festivals have been held for thousands of years. So in our house it's simply that. Lots of greenery, lots of food and lots of fun.

My Christmas is family centred. It includes carol-singing, which the OP mentioned. Only one adult DD and family are churchgoing. My Christmas cards never have nativity themes. I don’t overthink these things.

Yesterday Dan Walker on Classic FM , announcing a competition or something, asked people to text in with the word Christmas. He added “Not Xmas, put Christ back into Christmas”.

Cabbie21

Yesterday Dan Walker on Classic FM , announcing a competition or something, asked people to text in with the word Christmas. He added “Not Xmas, put Christ back into Christmas”.

Always.

We have a crib in a prominent position in the hall every Christmas. We go to church as a family. Even the ttal non-believe in the family si insistent on that. DGS, now 15, is still a amember of Boys Brigade and chose to be confirmed last year. His mother attends church with him.

We see the family, as being everything Christmas is about, but at nearly every Christmas we have someone from outside the family with us.

To me the fact that Christmas is a Christian festival is important. I do realise it piggybacks on more ancient festivals.

We don't go to church as much as we used to but are still involved. The DGC 'do' Chritmas at school. Little ones still have nativity plays and they all have school Carol services at local churches. I will attend the local one that two DGC are involved it. Another family always decorate a tree for their Christmas tree festival. I've helped with that other years but now the children are able to do it themselves.

We will fit a couple of Cristingle services in with grandchildren. Also the nine lessons and carols on Christmas Eve. Most years we go too church on Christmas morning too but not sure we will be able to this year.

Really should have read that through before posting.

Good for Dan Walker Cabbie, if not for Jesus there wouldn't be Christmas.

After my staunch Catholic upbringing, religion doesn't have a part in my life at all now. However, being Christian as in being kind to others is what I always try to be.

Smileless2012

Good for Dan Walker Cabbie, if not for Jesus there wouldn't be Christmas.

But there would still be a mid-winter festival. We'd just call it something else.

Exactly vampirequeen, it wouldn't be Christmas.

I have sung so many Christmas concerts in the past that I am well aware of the Christian nature of Christmas. However, it doesn’t come into my family celebrations very much, though I made sure my children were aware of it. Nobody goes to church, though we do listen to and watch the Nine Lessons and Carols.

My son wanted to get a little nativity set for his children when they were small, but my DIL, brought up Catholic, was having none of it. She said something to the effect that she wasn’t having the children brainwashed, as she was.

Kate1949

After my staunch Catholic upbringing, religion doesn't have a part in my life at all now. However, being Christian as in being kind to others is what I always try to be.

Same

I was brought up Catholic but no longer to go church but regard myself as a Christian, I always put a crib up , when our daughter was small we didn't put the baby in till Christmas eve. I like the day, made even more special as I have a DGC born on that day, but I hate the hype mostly made by the big supermarkets and the press that it will all somehow be spoiled unless you having a huge family gathering and a table groaning with food. And don't forget the Bailey's and a box of celebration🤐

Although all my children and I have been baptised we don't go to church nor have religious displays in our houses at Christmas.
A lovely vicar once told me that being a Christian is about caring for all living creatures, being kind and considerate and helping where you can. Isn't that what Jesus did . Going to church isn't necessary to being a Christian.

For me, Christmas is about the birth of Christ. I’m not particularly religious but it saddens me that this message is all but lost.

As an atheist, it's not - and I always write xmas!

Not very- as we are not religious. Christmas was highjacked from Celtic culture, and as we live on an ancient Celtic site, this is more what I feel personally. We do have a tree, nothing Christian about this however, as said above.

Meloni in Italy has just passed a Law forcing all schools to have a traditional Nativity Scene in all schools. Does she realise Joseph and mary looked quite dark. The she was an unmarried mother- and what about the wise men?

LaCrepescule

For me, Christmas is about the birth of Christ. I’m not particularly religious but it saddens me that this message is all but lost.

I understand, but it’s well known that it was a date arbitrarily selected by the church authorities, in conjunction with the incorporation of the Pagan winter solstice festival of Saturnalia into the Christian calendar, during the early 4th century.

This was done at the behest of Roman Emperor Constantine as a means of bringing the many Pagans in the then Roman Empire, into Christianity, as a means of strengthening the empire under one religion. Since there were no records of who Jesus was or when he was born, December 25th, immediately after the end of Saturnalia, was as good a date as any to pick.

Large numbers of the public mightn’t be aware of this, after all, the Christian church doesn’t advertise the fact, but all biblical scholars have long known it.