I'll courtesy ping Cynical Bear since you are again making him the subject of this thread.
My words are in response to NO spin and they are at odds only, it seems, with your own ill-presumed "facts".
I don't "reject" the Apostles' Creed, per se, but there are a few words and lines I take issue with. The history of this creed shows that it did NOT originate with the Apostles at all, so I keep to what Scripture says to know if I believe what they did. We don't "recite" the creed at church, if that's what you're asking.
I guess you could say I "note" Christmas and I celebrate it as an opportunity to remember the greatest gift of God He ever gave mankind. I don't make a big deal out of Santa and reindeer and all the merchandising that goes with it - it has done more to FURTHER the world from the reason for the season. I DO like snowmen and collect a Christmas edition of a certain designer. I like to line them up on the mantle - though with hubby's new bigger screen LCD TV, half of the mantle is covered up, so I didn't bring them out this year. As for Easter, again, I celebrate the resurrection of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - but I do that EVERY day, not just once a year. I don't observe 40 days of Lent, give out Easter baskets, have Easter egg hunts on my lawn, hire an Easter bunny or worship the goddess of Spring.
I hope you have realized by now that Cynical Bear was really saying the same things. He certainly added that he doesn't condemn people if they want to do these things, but he isn't shy about giving his opinion about their origins nor his thinking that God is not pleased by the false and pagan practices that some churches do. I think you probably agree with his points, but you have taken the tirade too far to admit it.
Rather succinctly put and spot one! Good job putting it into words.
“He certainly added that he doesn’t condemn people if they want to do these things, ...”
Really? Again your opinion is yours, the facts are at odds with your opinions. And YOU decided to “make this about him” by jumping in and defending comments like he made. Like these:
“All of the Lent and Easter abomination is pagan and God clearly condemned it in scripture.”
“God doesn’t smile down on people who celebrate Easter.”
“He certainly added that he doesn’t condemn people if they want to do these things, ...”
Odd, these sound like condemnations to me, not to you?
“All of the Lent and Easter abomination is pagan and God clearly condemned it in scripture.”
“God doesn’t smile down on people who celebrate Easter.”