Holidays. What are they to you?

Being an atheist in a family based out of Christianity (though my immediate family is extremely loosely religious), days like Easter and Christmas have only a family meaning and not a religious one. Might as well call them Generic Family Get-together, Spring and Winter Editions.

Anyone here still celebrate holidays in the religious context?

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Not at all.

Holidays are pretty much days wherein my family expects everyone to gather, eat lots of food, drinks lots of alcohol, and pretty much lay back and enjoy each others' company.

I usually end up driving around the goddamned state every holiday. But the food is oftentimes worth the trouble.

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Easter is the least interesting of the two religious-based holidays. For example, today's Easter get-together involved one side of my family (the boring side), two obnoxious children (I'm sure that most other people on here have more to deal with), but a decent meal.

Christmas is almost always a two-day event, involving both sides of the family and, of course, MONEH. (Though much less each year...)

I like my father's side of the family more than my mother's, so anytime I get to see them I'm always excited.

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If a holiday is religiously linked then we'll just go to Church for that day, but nothing else extraordinarily special. Just like today being Easter Sunday, we went to church, and it was a pretty normal day after that.

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Yep, I celebrate holidays religiously, as you so call it. I don't celebrate just to be doing it. I actually celebrate the meaning behind the holidays, or at least the ones that apply to me.

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Just another day in the calendar for me. Then again, I also treat birthdays and secular holidays in a similar fashion.

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I'm pretty much just a whore for the commercialization of all the holidays, as my family never has been that religious. Easter is for candy, Christmas is for presents, and all that kind of stuff is what these holidays are to me. I mean, we still get the meanings, like spending time with family and all that, but we have no religious context behind it.

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With the family being Catholic and all, and my job as the chapel pianist, personally for me it's a packed week, playing for hours Thursday through Sunday. It's kind of odd for me, since I attend almost all the services at my church, so yeah, I've received a good bit for influence from many of the different faiths, giving me a wider and clearly view of the christian faith. But yes to the point of Easter:

This year's was okay. Wasn't as hyped as Christmas was, obviously, but was celebrated in full by the devout. It's kinda funny to see all those 'submarine Catholics' come to the Easter Sunday. But hey, in my opinion, and I think I'm right, but every Sunday I play and take my time to notice the amount of people in the congregation, I figure about 2/3rds of those people have no idea what they're doing there, going because they're forced to, or going because it's a family thing. And from telling the difference between the Holy Thursday crowd from the Easter Sunday crowd, you could see my point.

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