Posted on 12/17/2013 1:54:02 PM PST by NYer
Merry Christmas, ping!
What, Christmas falls on December 25th this year? Who knew?
Won’t be long before ‘they’ move Christmas to fall on a Monday so’s we can all have a 3 day weekend.
Like Presidents Day.
Believe it or not, as an assistant RCIA instructor, for my parish, with another lay person, a gentleman, and with one of the two perminent deacons as the head RCIA instructor I have told why December 25 is celibrated each year as Christmas Day.
Christmas on a Thursday would work too, what with the opportunity for After-Christmas Sales on Friday.
This what I hear long time
Pope in ancient times was tick off that Pagans were still partying despite they became Christians to celebrate old Pagan holiday Yule
Another way for Pagan get over on the church rules in those days
I like to celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December. When our Lord was actually born is up for debate. For example, Feast of Tabernacles in late October (7th month Jewish calendar). Many parallels can be seen in the gospels of Matthew and Luke.
Doesn't matter, I'm just glad He got here.
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Seems to be pretty simple...The bible says the shepherds were in their fields tending the flocks...Do they do this in the middle of winter or no???
If yes, the possibility exists for Dec. 25...If no, then your religion is again in error...
Glenn Peoples, a theologian and tax collector in New Zealand, writes one of the best apologetics blogs on the Internet and has a fantastic podcast. He’s written extensively on this issue with a solidly reasoned and well-researched analysis to conclude that anti-Christian claims that Christ was really just another pagan myth are complete garbage:
http://www.rightreason.org/2010/episode-038-zeitgeist/
http://www.rightreason.org/2009/merry-mithras/
http://www.rightreason.org/2009/the-virgin-birth-of-buddha/
http://www.rightreason.org/2008/episode-019-osiris-and-jesus/
Shepherds watching their clocks at night some how equates to lambing season which would be in spring. Though I would imagine if there were thieves or wolves about, that the shepherds could have watched their flocks at night at any time during the year
Flocks. Stupid “smart” phones
I always wondered if all the world had been order to be tax, wouldn’t there possibly be a record some where of when the tax was to be collected?
Although the date of Christ’s birth is not given to us in Scripture,...................................... Need to find his birth certificate? Go to Hawaii, I’m sure they can come up with one there.
Tax? Or Census?
“Shepherds watching their clocks at night...”
I know it’s a typo, but it really works!
It's under water in a wrecked Cessna
That will only irritate the atheists.
Stupid smart phones and autocorrect. And yeah, It does work
Despite the Catholic Apologetics, almost everything about Christmas has its roots in Babylon:
http://realtruth.org/articles/169-ttooc.html
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