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Personally, we've always had some type of celebration with Christmas and Easter. Christmas was more traditional in the sense of materialistic and listening to the Christmas music while setting up the Christmas tree. There were mentions of Christ being the center of Christmas, but that wasn't our main focus on the holiday. Similar can be said for Easter. We looked forward to dying eggs and receive the chocolates on Easter morning. Then later on when seeing what it was about Christ's Crucifixion, it brought some attention. This year when it passed, it was focused more on Christ since I'm obviously too old to color dye eggs. Prior to that with Christmas was similar, I didn't have as much hype over it. Probably also because I worked in retail and saw how needy and selfish little kids got at the toys section and just the hype with Christmas stuff.
I did look into the main roots of both holidays as well and how things got altered by the Roman Catholic Church to fully declare such holidays as official religious ones (which also ties in with the dates originating from Pagan celebrations/rituals). It started to grow as to what the point really would be if it's not a directly instructed rite to do so and I don't know or think I'll want to celebrate it in similar senses if and when it'll be left up to me. I'm still going to be seeing Christmas decorations since my mother likes putting them up and for the past year or two I was sluggish on doing them. I still like some Christmas songs as long as it's not overly played, so I'd probably look forward to that still. Heck, I still listen to them sometimes.
Also if it's not known by now...these type of topics stir debates on both ends no matter what. Even if it's not close to Easter or Christmas, it's still going to catch attention. Good luck surviving it.
I did look into the main roots of both holidays as well and how things got altered by the Roman Catholic Church to fully declare such holidays as official religious ones (which also ties in with the dates originating from Pagan celebrations/rituals). It started to grow as to what the point really would be if it's not a directly instructed rite to do so and I don't know or think I'll want to celebrate it in similar senses if and when it'll be left up to me. I'm still going to be seeing Christmas decorations since my mother likes putting them up and for the past year or two I was sluggish on doing them. I still like some Christmas songs as long as it's not overly played, so I'd probably look forward to that still. Heck, I still listen to them sometimes.
Also if it's not known by now...these type of topics stir debates on both ends no matter what. Even if it's not close to Easter or Christmas, it's still going to catch attention. Good luck surviving it.