Why do some 'Sikhs' celebrate Christmas

[Harditsingh 43]

The Christmas is coming up but for me and my family it's just a normal day my father will go to work as he gets time and half pay my mom will just stay home and do her house work like she usually does and I'll prolly just go out with friends play pool or something in other words it's just gonna be a normal day however I know some apney who have tress have family dinner and even exchange gifts Isnt this a joke I mean when do u ever see white ppl or christians celebrate our holidays

[Big_Tera 1,122]

3 hours ago, Harditsingh said:

The Christmas is coming up but for me and my family it's just a normal day my father will go to work as he gets time and half pay my mom will just stay home and do her house work like she usually does and I'll prolly just go out with friends play pool or something in other words it's just gonna be a normal day however I know some apney who have tress have family dinner and even exchange gifts Isnt this a joke I mean when do u ever see white ppl or christians celebrate our holidays

Because Santa is the greatest. 

[puzzled 3,051]

We dont celebrate Christmas  just another ordinary day.   As a kid I used to like Christmas because I went to a primary school with a lot of heavy christian influence   but when I became a teenager I stopped

December is a shaheedi month and nothing should be celebrated      my birthday is in december and I dont celebrate it    I'm not a birthday person anyway   I find all that stuff really cringe   

[imhosingh 99]

Prezzies innit..if there were no presents , booze, feasting and Ferraro roches then it wouldn't be participated in . 

[Big_Tera 1,122]

On 12/23/2019 at 6:24 PM, puzzled said:

We dont celebrate Christmas  just another ordinary day.   As a kid I used to like Christmas because I went to a primary school with a lot of heavy christian influence   but when I became a teenager I stopped

December is a shaheedi month and nothing should be celebrated      my birthday is in december and I dont celebrate it    I'm not a birthday person anyway   I find all that stuff really cringe   

My birthday is also on December and is also near Christmas day. Christmas tends to over shadow my birthday. Which I don't like. I would rather have a march birthday or something like may or . It's feels strange having a December birthday. Does not feel special. 

[Big_Tera 1,122]

On 12/23/2019 at 7:45 PM, imhosingh said:

Prezzies innit..if there were no presents , booze, feasting and Ferraro roches then it wouldn't be participated in . 

Amen to that

[puzzled 3,051]

1 hour ago, Big_Tera said:

My birthday is also on December and is also near Christmas day. Christmas tends to over shadow my birthday. Which I don't like. I would rather have a march birthday or something like may or . It's feels strange having a December birthday. Does not feel special. 

I dont really do birthdays tbh   never really have  only as a kid I did birthdays 

This yr on my birthday I bought myself a big round cactus with really long spikes haha!  Put it in my bedroom    And that's my birthday done lol  

[Big_Tera 1,122]

On 12/25/2019 at 4:44 PM, puzzled said:

I dont really do birthdays tbh   never really have  only as a kid I did birthdays 

This yr on my birthday I bought myself a big round cactus with really long spikes haha!  Put it in my bedroom    And that's my birthday done lol  

Your such a party animal.

I would have had a big burfday with all the candles and cakes ect. any excuse to indulge.

[IshR 26]

In many ways Christmas is like Halloween, a seasonal festival actually started by the pagans. 
Jesus was born in summer apparently.

Not justifying celebrating it, just saying it’s not really a religious festival. I’d say celebrating Diwali is just as bad. Sikhs call it bandhi chor just as an excuse to celebrate Diwali. 
Most sikhs go crazy over bandhi chor, with loads of fireworks but don’t do anything for guru nanak dev jis janam din

[Akal Warrior 217]

On 12/23/2019 at 10:24 AM, puzzled said:

We dont celebrate Christmas  just another ordinary day.   As a kid I used to like Christmas because I went to a primary school with a lot of heavy christian influence   but when I became a teenager I stopped

December is a shaheedi month and nothing should be celebrated      my birthday is in december and I dont celebrate it    I'm not a birthday person anyway   I find all that stuff really cringe   

Nothing should be celebrated in December? What on earth are you talking about? There is a Shaheedi divas on every day of the calendar year (Bhai Mati Das Bhai Sati Das, 5th and 9th Guru Sahibs, Bhai Taru Singh, Baba Deep Singh, 1984, Saka Nankana, Banda Singh Bahadur, the list goes on and on) Are you seriously saying that at any time a Sikh was Shaheed, people can't celebrate anything, even if it happened over 300 years ago? That doesn't make any sense, and is actually the exact opposite of Chardi Kala. Think about it. 

[Akalifauj 900]

49 minutes ago, Akal Warrior said:

Nothing should be celebrated in December? What on earth are you talking about? There is a Shaheedi divas on every day of the calendar year (Bhai Mati Das Bhai Sati Das, 5th and 9th Guru Sahibs, Bhai Taru Singh, Baba Deep Singh, 1984, Saka Nankana, Banda Singh Bahadur, the list goes on and on) Are you seriously saying that at any time a Sikh was Shaheed, people can't celebrate anything, even if it happened over 300 years ago? That doesn't make any sense, and is actually the exact opposite of Chardi Kala. Think about it. 

Neither does chardikala mean to celebrate.  So think about it.

[puzzled 3,051]

7 hours ago, Akal Warrior said:

Nothing should be celebrated in December? What on earth are you talking about? There is a Shaheedi divas on every day of the calendar year (Bhai Mati Das Bhai Sati Das, 5th and 9th Guru Sahibs, Bhai Taru Singh, Baba Deep Singh, 1984, Saka Nankana, Banda Singh Bahadur, the list goes on and on) Are you seriously saying that at any time a Sikh was Shaheed, people can't celebrate anything, even if it happened over 300 years ago? That doesn't make any sense, and is actually the exact opposite of Chardi Kala. Think about it. 

No nothing should be celebrated in december    neither did Sikhs celebrate anything in december    its only in the last few decades with nri sikhs returning in december during christmas holidays that people have started doing weddings etc in december again. 

In some of the pinds around sirhind people still dont do anything celebrations in december

Personally for me it just dont feel right doing bhangra and having weddings around the date that the shaheedi happened. 

[BhForce 1,153]

2 hours ago, puzzled said:

In some of the pinds around sirhind people still dont do anything celebrations in december

Yeah, exactly what I was going to say.

The shaheedi of the younger Sahibzaadas is special because they were just small children.

[Jonny101 4,313]

I've seen Sikhs who have a huge problem celebrating a cultural day like Rakhri because they say it is a Hindu holiday or even make a fuss over calling Diwali as "Diwali" instead of Bandi chod Divas but have no problem celebrating Christmas with their whole family.

[Akal Warrior 217]

23 hours ago, puzzled said:

No nothing should be celebrated in december    neither did Sikhs celebrate anything in december    its only in the last few decades with nri sikhs returning in december during christmas holidays that people have started doing weddings etc in december again. 

In some of the pinds around sirhind people still dont do anything celebrations in december

Personally for me it just dont feel right doing bhangra and having weddings around the date that the shaheedi happened. 

So, if your child had a birthday in December, you would not allow them to celebrate it? "Sorry kid, no Happy birthday for you because 300 years ago..." 

Really? I wonder what kind of psychological effect it would have on a child, and how it would affect their Sikhi in the future? Subconscious animosity perhaps? In Saka Nankana children were thrown into fires, so does that mean nothing can be celebrated in February?  June 1984 attack... No June birthdays for children?  I understand respect for Shaheeds, but who is making these rules? Why does it not apply to the other months?  What about when Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji's Gurpurab falls in December instead of January for certain years?