Christmas is a holiday that is known worldwide, whether from advertisements to Santa Claus to just the joy of presents. But some families do not celebrate because it is against the religion.hey may have A different event on that date that they observe. Religions like Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism don’t acknowledge Christmas and Easter because they are biblical Christian festivals, so the only religion that celebrates Christmas and Easter is Christianity. 

“The fact is that we celebrate Christmas on a different day; most people celebrate Christmas on December 25th. We celebrate our Christmas on January 27th. The reason being that I am Coptic Orthodox Christian. Orthodox Christians around the world celebrate Christmas on different days. Some celebrate it with the Gregorian Calendar, and some celebrate it with the older Julian Calendar, which would have Christmas land on January 7th.,” Senior Mena Basta stated.

Coptic Christians believe that Christ had two natures ― one human and one divine ― united as one “without mingling, without confusion, and alteration.” Catholics and other Christian denominations believe in the incarnation of Jesus, which similarly holds that Christ was both fully human and fully divine.

“I do not celebrate Christmas or any other holidays are from Pagan Origins, so there isn’t anything that I celebrate instead of having the Christmas spirit of always being kind, I just express that every day for the whole year,” Senior Evelynn Bernardino Jimenez said.

Paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism. This was either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian population, or because they were not milites Christianity.

“I do not celebrate Christmas because we Sikhs celebrate the birth of our tenth Guru, Guru Gobind Singh Ji, on January 5th, 1666 and January 7th, 1706 was, sadly, the death of the tenth Guru. Also, we are not to celebrate anything in the first week of December because that is also the deaths of the sons, Chaar Sahibzaade, of our tenth Guru,” Freshman Sahib Singh Dhindsa said.

Sikhism, or Sikhi, is a monotheistic religion that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent around the end of the 15th century. It is one of the youngest of the major world religions and the world’s fifth-largest organized religion, as well as being the world’s ninth-largest overall religion.