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To: DouglasKC
...but it's important to know where the customs we observe come from and why we observe them.

So, you're saying that, regardless of how it's treated now, Halloween retains its roots as a pagan festival and people are inadvertently giving some sort of power to these pagan notions by celebrating this particular holiday?

So, Christmas remains a distinctly Christian holiday, and no one here should worry about attempts to secularize it because any celebration on that day gives power to Christianity.

You can't have it both ways.

17 posted on 10/22/2006 11:05:36 AM PDT by Junior (Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.)
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To: Junior
So, you're saying that, regardless of how it's treated now, Halloween retains its roots as a pagan festival and people are inadvertently giving some sort of power to these pagan notions by celebrating this particular holiday?

Yup. Suppose some creep raped 3 year old girls and violated in the most gruesome way possible. Then suppose his followers commemerated these acts by inventing a holiday to celebrate it. Then suppose 500 years later some people decided to dress up as little girls and rapists to have some fun. At what point did this stop being offensive to God?

So, Christmas remains a distinctly Christian holiday, and no one here should worry about attempts to secularize it because any celebration on that day gives power to Christianity.

No, Christmas also is a counterfeit holiday. God created real holy days for his followers to observe. These are listed in the Leviticus chapter 23.

22 posted on 10/22/2006 11:13:16 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Junior

"Christ's Mass" itself has strong pagan roots, having incorporated the timing and many of the symbols of pre-christian winter-solstice festivities. I suppose good Christians should not dare to celebrate the pagan-rooted holiday which falls on 25 December of the modern calendar.
*shrugs*


49 posted on 10/22/2006 12:18:54 PM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: Junior

Thank you. Good reasoning.


194 posted on 10/23/2006 1:10:27 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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