It is everywhere, (both political parties are equally guilty of practicing the communisim political correctness craft.) I am sure even Bush.
But in some cases the word holiday could actually be referencing -Thanksgiving and Christmas- stories.
Posted on 11/27/2002 7:26:24 AM PST by marshmallow
Red herring alert: it's not about the tree, it's about the word Christmas. I guess what comes next is the usual drivel about Christmas being a "pagan" holiday, etc.
The mission of the anti-Christian left, including the mush-headed Liber(al)tarians we often see around here, is to get "Christ" out of "Christmas" (and everywhere else).
At the risk of being accused of calumny (I don't beleve that anyone can state that my opinion is heresy), I believe that there is nothing particularly "Christmas" that attaches to the paganistic, racially imprinted, winter solstice worshiping ritual of adorning ones winter shelter with evergreen fronds and bushes.
Other that a coincidence of seasonality of the observence, of course.
It is everywhere, (both political parties are equally guilty of practicing the communisim political correctness craft.) I am sure even Bush.
But in some cases the word holiday could actually be referencing -Thanksgiving and Christmas- stories.
You do NOT celebrate multiculturalism by destroying your own culture. You share the joys of each with each other.
Jeremiah, Chapter 10, verses 2 through 5 read, "This what the Lord says: "Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them. For the customers of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel. They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter. Like a scarecrow in a melon patch, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they can not walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good."
I found that passage quite intersting when I came across it. It immediately reminded me of our Christmas trees. Certainly food for thought.
And a grand excuse to run up credit cards to keep up with the Jones' and update all the electronics/computers/video games and buy even a larger TV screen. In any given upscale yuppie neighborhood it is fashionable for pre teens to be seen outside on the best/most expensive four wheeler or an actual inneractive paint ball war world in the woods or the best Volvo/Beemer for the college bound son or daughter.
To throw more fat on the fire, it is also highly unlikely that Christ was born anywhere near December 25.
There is nothing specifically about the date in Scripture, but the circumstantial evidence points to either spring or fall.
Late December in the Judean hills is a very cold, wet, snowy time of year. Hardly a time that:
1) large numbers of people would choose to travel on foot to their ancestral homes
2)a loving husband would pick to travel with a 9-months pregnant wife
3) shepherds would choose to sleep out in the fields with the sheep.
The traditional idea of the Wise Men showing up on the night of his birth would also seem to point to a time of year that is not largely overcast.
Did you not read my posts, here, here, here, and here?
You are living in such a country.
It's just not the case!
Everybody, look! It's the Holiday Shepherd and the Independent, Feminist, Single Mother with the Spiritual Baby! And the Three Persons-who-scored-highly-on-the-SATs-but-that's-not-the-same-as-intelligence-which-cannot-really-be-measured-fairly! They come bearing welfare checks for the unwed mother!
What a wonderful multicultural holiday!
I forgot to mention - if you want to put candles on your tree for old times sake, make sure your insurance is paid up. I understand that the old European winter festival also mysteriously coincided with a lot of house fires :)
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