I chose the clever third option, not really clever though, I would just ad a “fuck” some place near one of the “no’s” and call it good.
I celebrate xmas as a secular holiday but decorations do nothing for me and the music makes me want to punch people in the throat.
Well, no.
I’ve got a nativity scene, I set it up every year and I love playing with it.
I am not religious but I love Christmas. I think it’s because it is the darkest, coldest part of the year for us and any excuse to hang up sparkly decorations will help keep folks cheerful. I went through a period of not being at all bothered about Christmas and indeed I don’t ‘celebrate’ it as such but come December you are bound to find me on the sofa on Sunday afternoon watching a soppy xmas film with a box of tissues and a mug of hot chocolate.
Yes - lights, tree, snowflakes, advent candles. No nativity though. I’d consider myself ‘culturally Christian,’ IYSWIM, even though I’ve always been an atheist.
Despite the Christian portion of its origins, Christmas is very much a secular holiday. We use more snowmen than Santas, and definitely no nativity.
I chose “No.”
Not that I don’t celebrate / tolerate Christmas with the rest of the family, but in my little condo where I live alone … you’ll never find an evergreen in my living room.
I have to admit, I get all judgey when people decorate for christmas but claim its for Hannukah (ie, “Hannukah bush” - pukes). Hey if you want to celebrate it as either a secular or Christian holiday, go ahead, but don’t claim the festival of Christ’s birth, or a secular celebration that combines Christian and Germanic pagan elements, is somehow part of a Jewish tradition.
I love Christmas. I consider it at this point a secular holiday for me, and even appreciate the old trappings of Christian mythology that go with it. I like nativity scenes!
Yes. My mother collected Christmas ornaments for me since I was born, so I have a big Rubbermaid container of them that I like to get out each year. If I’m going to be traveling over the holidays, I won’t put anything up, though.
I’m a secular Jew who is a big choir geek and hosts Christmas caroling for my HS choir buddies every year. I always get toghether some kind of seasonal refreshments (glogg, eggnog, mulled cider, etc.), and if I get my act together, I put up some lights and garlands (the lights are blue and white for Hanukah, which was the earlier Festival of Lights, dammit!) But that’s mostly because we all love harmony singing, and Christmas seems like the logical setting for that, plus everyone knows the music.
Now that I’m married to a guy whose family is Christian (some of them quite so), and we moved into a much bigger place, and it looks like we’re hosting Christmas for at least some of the family, we may do something more elaborate - we have space for a small tree or something along those lines. I think mistletoe could be fun, but then that’s originally a Druid thing anyway. 
ETA - I can’t picture us doing a nativity scene, though - I think anything we’d do is likely to have either Jewish or pagan roots. I’m not really a theological Jew, but I can certainly get behind celebrating the idea that my ancestors overcame adversity to kick some ass.
I put yes, but it’s really my wife. When I lived with other guys, we didn’t do any decorating more serious than a stack of beer cans in the shape of a tree.
I love decorating for Christmas, which we celebrate as a secular holiday. I don’t have any religious stuff except for one angel, though. Hate things like nativity scenes.
Christmas tree with non-religious decorations, but nothing outside. But that comes from being Jewish more than being an atheist.
Actually, I put up winter solstice decorations. Even assuming the story is real, the Biblical birth story is inconsistent with it being a mid-winter event. For example, shepherds would not be out in the fields at night in the winter.
Most of the decorations used (except manger scenes) have little or no religious connotation unless you’re a pagan.
That’s what we do as well. The “pretty” logs go in a basket by the fireplace, bayberry candles, etc. Two christmases ago I hung an extremely pornographic crucifix in the living room (as a joke). It took my gf a few days to notice. When she complained, I told her I was putting the “X” back in Xmas.
Where do you get one of those?
We celebrated jul here in Scandinavia before Christianity got here, and we celebrate it now when it pretty much left too. There was and still is the tree, the slaughtered pig, the “gnome” , and so forth.
Yes, but none of the decorations are religious. No nativity scenes, crosses, angels, etc. I don’t really see any religion in christmas.
Putting up “Xmas” decorations is part of the solstice celebration at Chez Jackmannii.
The tree, the ornaments, the presents, the painting ourselves blue and running naked through the neighborhood (weather permitting) - all part of the essential offerings to ensure that the days grow longer again.
I mean, it’s always worked.