ATHEISTS: Will you respect Easter and Christmas this year as a Christian Celebration

Atheists show little respect for Christianity yet they celebrate Easter and Christmas as if it is not a religious holiday.
This year, can you respect those times of the year?

But I like Cadbury eggs way to much!

You have earned no respect and shall be given none by me.

Christmas isn't a Christian holiday.

Stirr...Starr the witches brew,Starr n' Starr

i did a long time ago honey, when i was like 8

p.s. how is a giant rabbit $hitting out colored eggs a religious thing anyways?

No, i dint think i will.

This is a great example of christian delusion. You have no idea what you are talking about. Atheists do not celebrate Easter, and most do not celebrate Christmas. Some do celebrate the winter solstice, and know that Christians told over that holiday and pretend that it has something to do with their fairy, which it does not.

Why do Christians insist on posting silly questions all the time?

Silly S1m0NE, I celebrate every day I have off from work. So forget it.

Easter is a pagan celebration of the goddess of fertility (i think) Eostre, and Christmas has similar origins. Like many christian traditions, both are borrowed from other cultures.
So no.

Sure, as soon as you stop using the products created by science set free from religion. Have fun living without most modern conveniences. (now get off your computer)

Well, if you're going to be that narrow-minded and arrogant about it, I'm not surprised you don't get respect. Don't speak for Atheists as a whole, you twat. And Christians don't respect Satanists. I've been told I'm evil and regularly burn Bibles (I don't) because I'm a Satanist.

Nope, Easter was an Anglo Saxon fertility goddess, so I'm going to gorge my way through it on chocolate and hump like a bunny

Get your facts straight, Xmas and Easter were originally pagan holidays and "Jesus" was supposedly born in the summer months not in December..how come I know more about your make believe religion than you?

Atheists only celebrate the day after those Holidays. Cause we're smart enough to wait and get all your candy at 75% off.

I don't celebrate Easter and Christmas is a secular holiday, not a religious one. Christians stole Christmas from the pagans and stuck their own corrupt influence to it. If Christians give up their evil efforts to corrupt our lives, school, and government then I'll consider making an exception and stop celebrating Christmas.

No, not until you respect us and don't preach and go on about your religion for the rest of the year.

Not in the US. The US recognizes them as federal holidays, which is either a clear violation of the establishment clause of the US Constitution, or they are now considered secular. I choose the latter, but I would also happily accept it if Christians wanted to fight to remove this federal recognition so they can continue to argue for religious ownership of these celebrations.

I'll respect it as a pagan celebration. I'm gonna sleep late

My Easter is the 1st day of Spring (from the Goddess Ostara). My Christmas is the winter Solstice (since Christians hijacked it as Christmas day). Jesus loves me, as do Buddhas, saints, ancestors & Baha'ullah. I respect life itself & celebrate every day as a gift. Why is that YOUR problem?

The religious part would be the part that takes place in actual churches.

Everything else is secular.

No. I like Christmas cake and hot coffee after midnight mass way too much.

Easter - Eostere - Germanic PAGAN rites of spring.

Christmas - Yuletide - Germanic PAGAN winter solstice

Um, what were you saying about those things being "Christian"????????

Hypocrite

Um...I don't recall seeing you in my house on December 25Th...nor (what date is Easter?)....so, sorry, kind of a fail.

No.

The festivals were pagan, and atheist, long before they were Roman or distorted by Christianity.

Why should we respect your self given right to steal anything, objective or subjective, in the name of your god.

So, my stuffed bunny represents Jesus, and is not a fertility symbol from Prue-christian religions celebrations...ditto the cad bury cream eggs. They have the word "bury" in them, signifying how Jesus was buried and then turned into a yummy chocolate creme egg...Jesus also, apparently, was born midwinter, not in a proper shelter, and that whey's we bring FIR trees inside. Look, we stay out of your churches. Please stay out of my home.

They won't. They are like teenage children who rebel against the ideas of their parents. They haven't grown up yet, They ignore the wisdom and truth of their ancestors in favor of urban myths and Noe-pagan fantasies.

The prattle on about about how reasonable and rational they are, yet most of the responders have posted stuff which is pure fantasy. Easter and Christmas pagan? Duh! Give me a break. Easter can be trace WITHOUT REASONABLE DOUBT through the historical record to the second century AD when the first Christians started celebrating it on the Sunday after the JEWISH Passover. - 500 YEARS BEFORE Christianity reached the Anglo-Saxons.

Similarly with Christmas - started in Rome around 300 AD - centuries before Christianity encountered people who held Yule - it was they who moved their feasting to Christmas in hon our of Christ.