Yule Vs. Xmas

[Angaridatha]

What's your view on Yule vs. Xmas? If you agree with both of the above choose your favorite and detail with post.

The big question for pagans at this time of the year! Xmas is a big family deal, and as most of our families aren't pagan, it can be a challenge. Do you kind of put a lid on your own beliefs and celebrate family style? To what degree? Do you try and take what's common to both holidays? *cough* everything but christ *cough* Do you celebrate xmas with your family and yule yourself/with pagan friends? Or do you tell your family you refuse to celebrate xmas?

Or the personal favorite of many people, do you just wish everyone on your list a happy yule/hanukkah/kwanzaa/xmas/thingy? Then proceed to eat food and give gifts?

Ah, the holidays.

[Angaridatha]

Whew, I'm so messed up anyway that it's easy to just separate it out. My parents are divorced, my dad's agnostic with a xtian wife, so they celebrate non-christ christmas, which offers me little problem. There's one xmas.

My mom is attempting to celebrate more yule. I don't know if my mom wants to please me/make me comfortable or if she kind of wants to become pagan. She's already an agnostic witch. Who knows. That's another easy xmas/yule down.

I celebrate the actual yule with Katie, of course.

Then all of Katie's family celebrates xmas.

How many xmasses this year? I lose count.

[The Wizard]

I do Christmas with my family, because 1)I grew up that way and 2)I think there are better things to be angry about or fight against, and besides... Christmas is a nice idea

Then I do something nice and Yule-ish because it's a part of me now, and it's just a nice jolly time of year anyway. It's almost perfectly made for celebrating and enjoying the things/people we love.

[aiyanna]

Christmas stole a bunch of Yule Traditions, they're almost the same Holiday, with one major diffrence...Jesus or no Jesus. I'm all for the No Jesus

The Dec. 21 celebrations in Pagan Rome circled around the adopted Roman God, Mithras. According to Persian mythology, Mithras was born of a virgin given the title 'Mother of God'. The God remained celibate throughout his life, and valued self-control, renunciation and resistance to sensuality among his worshippers. Mithras represented a system of ethics in which brotherhood was encouraged in order to unify against the forces of evil.

The story of Jesus borrowed from the story of Mithras...if anyone gets the History Channel watch "Christmas Unwapped"

[Saiok Tarek]

Even the idea of Jesus being born at this time complements the birth of the Sun God...there have been many dieties said to be born as man and then walk the earth.

AAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNND my list:

Well, then, there is Yulemas with Jaimie's Mom. And then xmas with her Dad and the thing. And then Yule with Jaimie, and then xmas with my parents and sis, and then on xmas day, xmas at my Grandparent's place...oh wow...we are busy this year...*blink*

[Marius Morningstar]

Have a Merry Bodhi Day, Christmas, Festivus, Hannukkah, Kwanzaa, Omisoka, Shabe-Yalda, Winter Solstice, Yule, and/or Zartusht-No-Diso.