Did you know that Jehovahs Witnesses don’t celebrate Christmas or any holiday for that matter?
Why the hell not? Because a lot of Christmas traditions have Pagan origins.
#justsayin.
I envy those damn JW’s because I do NOT like Christmas. Seriously. I want to stab it in the face until it is dead.
I figure that this year will be different since I now have a child and well, isn’t Christmas all about the kiddies? However, Peanut doesn’t get Christmas. I decided that even though we still haven’t unpacked most of our boxes that we should clutter up our living room even more by putting up the Christmas tree. While I strategically placed the silver balls (teehee. BALLS) and icicles on our six footer Peanut crawled around under the tree and whined because I was doing something other than holding her.
OH! The Horror!
My child is incredibly spoiled and will definitely get more gifts than she needs this year and probably every year of her childhood. The problem with this spoilery is that she won’t fully appreciate what a lucky little girl she is until she’s older and by then she’ll be a self-entitled little brat.
I really want to like Christmas. Maybe this year will be different.
I’ll just fake it for Peanut’s sake. After all, I don’t want to look like I’m suicidal in the pictures.
LoL..My family were JW when I was a kid. Not my cup O' tea but I get a good snicker when they come knockin on the door. We always talk about just telling them we're devil worshiper or something to see what they would do!
This is a note to all athiests and not you in particular. I have just had my religion attacked and insulted one too many times lately and I am super sick of it.
How far back does a holiday have to go? It was established in 354 for goodness sake. Also I imagine if the 25th of December wasn't chosen, then some other date would have been and we would still be doing the same stuff on July 25 or something.
I am a little sick people giving respect to all other religious holiday's this year and bashing Christmas and all thing Christian. If you hate our religion and holidays, then don't celebrate them with us!
Also please do thorough research about religious history before making offensive comments.
So relax this year. Peanut doesn't care if she has a single present. Also remember to treat people with respect, because many of them do sitll consider Christmas a high holy day.
I must have missed the offensive comments somehow.
Hmm, re-read and still not finding them.
Anyway… I grew up JW, not celebrating anything. In some ways it was nice, but I think you're onto something there about it being different when you've got kids. I don't believe in the whole holy-day-Jesus-birth part of it, but I like the family tradition part. We're going to Kansas City to be with my husband's family and I love all the family gatherings and going to see the lights and everything decorated and big dinners, etc. The best part is watching my kids react to all of that. They know nothing about the religious side of it, of course, they just think it's a happy, pretty time when they get to hang out with their grandparents and cousins and they get presents. And I'm ok with that.
(I probably offended Anonymous. I'm offended my Anon's easily offendedness.)
Seriously Troll she wasn't attacking Christianity it was a rant about Christmas in general. If you can't understand that stop reading her blog.
Oh man I cannot stand Christmas either. I mean, I celebrate the birth of Jesus but I HATE the freaking holiday itself. It is a bunch of running around spending money and guessing at what people want and then putting up a bunch of crap in my house that I just have to take down again in a month.Also fitting all the holiday get-togethers into our schedule, which is fun now that we have an infant and traveling is infinitely more difficult. What a beating.
People never believe me when I say I hate the holidays but it is true. My favorite holidays are Memorial Day and Labor Day because we get a day off work but there is not travel and no gifts involved. Yay!
Anon – I totally wasn't trying to insult Christianity. I grew up Christian, I get the whole thing. It is sacred to celebrate the birth of one's religious leader. The rituals surrounding Christmas from a Christian POV are beautiful. I love the advent candle lighting, the story of the birth, etc. Mentioning that Christmas has Pagan origins may not have been necessary but it is MY blog. I don't think that shopping and acting like a douchebag at Toys R Us is very Christ-like.
LOL! /yeah I'm kind of scrooge-y…thats why I did my video on the story of Santa!! BTW, brats are cute…I have one!
OOOH so the offensive part was stating that JW's don't celebrate Christmas because of its pagan origins. Hmm. But… that's true. Truth hurts, I guess.