Posted on 12/14/2013 2:56:27 PM PST by InHisService
Thanks for the clarification. ; -/
As a believer everyday is Christmas and Easter.
Romans 14. Christmas haters need to go read it.
That is a huge compliment coming from someone on here. Especially when they disagree with my viewpoint. Thank you.
The whole Christmas / Saturnalia thing is pretty much a myth....
“...‘The majority of modern scholars would be reluctant to accept any close connection between the Saturnalia and the emergence of the Christian Christmas.’
Devout Christians will be reassured to learn that the date of Christmas may derive from concepts in Judaism that link the time of the deaths of prophets being linked to their conception or birth. From this, early ecclesiastical number-crunchers extrapolated that the nine months of Mary’s pregnancy following the Annunciation on March 25th would produce a December 25th date for the birth of Christ.”
http://www.historytoday.com/matt-salusbury/did-romans-invent-christmas
But more to the point...we celebrate the 4th of July with fireworks. That doesn’t mean we stole the 4th of July from the Chinese. Of course ancient people chose to celebrate Christmas using the customs that they had always used to celebrate things, it’s just natural.
This all seems to be like something that would be on a Twitter page. Like “I woke up, washed my hsnds,read the New York Times, fell back to sleep....”
Hmmmm. Sad that she ties her own religious celebration to “what everyone else is doing.”
The title said it all, therefore you did not have to read the article. You must have cared or wanted to know what I thought if you read it. Same with everyone else on here who disagrees with me and says they don’t care what I think.
Amen.
The secular parts, granted...
I’m not looking down on those who celebrate Christmas. Just making people aware of the truth. If after knowing the truth they continue to celebrate Christmas, that’s their choice. Celebrate away.
The writer being a Single Mom, tells me all I want to know.
Your assumption is your assumption.
Very elegant, I like it.
Oh full it
Oh full of it
You try so hard for vanity
Christmas is a time of remembrance, sharing, reconcilliations, celebrating Jesus birthday.
It can be a time of renewal as well.
Has it become over commercialized?
Dunno but, I celebrate The Saviors birth on some arbritrary day because it should be done so predictably and with at least some reverance.
We civivilzed peoples are too sophisticated to understand the lambing season
So what if we ripped off the Pagan’s? Did we? Maybe we swiped from the Hebrews?
Heck, their Hannukah never seems to fall on some predictable time table and interrupts some other days. Like this year it was on Thanksgiving Day.
Not really a problem for me. I’m not some religious snob.,
No, this year I figured it was a great time to combine the holidays and give thanks to a God who shouldn’t be bothered by a bunch of petty, ingrates who can only summon the barest of acknowldgement for his greatness and our gratuity only a couple days a year.
Back to Christmas....
If we weren’t arguing about Christmas on say “Christmas” and the numerous meanings it has for us or ought to, when would we otherwise consume ourselves with his awesomeness?
Easter? So I celebrate the death of The Savior, find meaning in the tri ity and it’s explanation by way of an egg and still ponder “Jesus was a Jew? Why do we eat ham on this day?”
Why of all nights is thus night any different from the others?
So we might remember, be called closer to our God and perhaps some renewal of our faith as we thank God, who sent his only begotten son, that we might not perish
If you don’t mind my bringing two verses together for the analogy.
Merry Christmas!
This was completely unnecessary shock value. Celebrate, don’t celebrate. Who cares about your self-absorbed opinion? That goes for both the author of this idiotic article and InHisService.
I know I’m very opinionated, I don’t hide that fact in my writing. People will be offended. I will be lambasted. That’s the way it goes!
Get 20 children in a room under the age of 14 and ask them what Christmas is all about. Maybe on a good day one or even two of them will mention Jesus.
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