Despite origins...still spiritual

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.