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Despite origins...still spiritual

Comment comment by tomtolman on 22 December 2005

Good research VnutZ79. For some Christmas is just another holiday…a chance to rest and relax with family and friends. For most, however, it is a religious holiday—a chance to reflect and remember Christ’s birth. A few, like Hope of Israel, which you link to, feel that it is blasphemous to celebrate Christmas considering some of the pagan origins. They say, “The very name ‘Christmas,’ combining the holy name of Christ with the pagan mass, POLLUTES and PROFANES YEHOVAH's holy name! The celebration of these ancient pagan festivals, calling them ‘Christian,’ is an abomination in the sight of YEHOVAH God! YEHOVAH will not accept such pagan, superstitious worship!”

This article, by a Christian leader, recognizes the “commencement of the holiday lies in pagan worship long before the introduction of Christianity” yet the true spirit of Christmas today “comes to him who has taken Christ into his life as a moving, dynamic, vitalizing force.” I think most who view Christmas as a spiritual holiday take this approach. Although Christmas has morphed over hundreds of years, the holiday, like any holiday, is what you make it personally.

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RE: Despite origins...still spiritual by LordDilly :: NR8

I agree. It's funny how people get wrapped around the axle over the trimmings, if you will. But that's people, sometimes missing the forest for the Christmas trees.

I would like to know, though- at what point can we finally consider the things that might've began as pagan rituals but are now part of Christmas as Christmas traditions, and leave it at that? 500 plus years ain't enough?

Posted 23 December 2005, Hide, Parent, Reply