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Can X-mas be a different holiday? A question of the grounds for celebration.
#32
Posted 08 January 2006 - 10:08 PM
I don't believe it.
#33
Posted 08 January 2006 - 11:17 PM
One can be Christian and a good, open-minded, non-hypocritical person at the same time. Granted, those are rare. But then, it's a lot easier for someone with lots of guidelines to follow to be a hypocrite.
I'd hope you weren't so close-minded as to hate all Christians themselves...
#34
Posted 09 January 2006 - 11:37 AM
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#35
Posted 06 February 2006 - 08:39 PM
going over all that's here it's quite simple...
jesus was born in july/august...
decmber 25th was a day relevant to sun worshipers, the period on which we celebrate easter was originally a pagen festival for the godess of fertility, thus the eggs and rabit... even the hot cross buns having nothing to do with a crucifix.
yes, the catholics, like all major corporations, adopted these cultural holidays to make themselves more appealing then the other christian churches... they sold out early on. long before it became cool to accuse them of it...
the simple fact of the matter is that hasbro and coke own christmas, and cadburys and nestles own easter...
but either way, we get three public holidays so who gives a rats ass.
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#36
Posted 06 February 2006 - 09:10 PM
Understandable for the evidence, but I am wondering if this could ever happen; Will there be more judgments, all put together which makes out that he was born every month of the year, once a point is proven, then every day?
#37
Posted 06 February 2006 - 10:20 PM
but if the bible was telling the truth, he wasn't borne in winter...
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#38
Posted 08 February 2006 - 04:26 PM
He tells Adam that he can't eat animals even though there are no doubt millions of them. He says to Noah, with the last 2 every animal, "if you fancy a kebab... I'll look the other way."
#39
Posted 08 February 2006 - 05:33 PM
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#41
Posted 10 February 2006 - 01:58 PM
Genesis 2:16-17
And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
To Noah:
Genesis 9:1-3
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything."
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#42
Posted 10 February 2006 - 02:39 PM
#43
Posted 11 February 2006 - 05:41 AM
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#44
Posted 11 February 2006 - 10:12 AM
He tells Adam that he can't eat animals even though there are no doubt millions of them. He says to Noah, with the last 2 every animal, "if you fancy a kebab... I'll look the other way."
I don't understand why people automatically give up on the idea of a divine source just because one spiritual tradition doesnt make sense to them. There are thousands of religious systems out there, many of them are nothing like Christianity or any main stream religion. Why just go straight athiest just because you don't belive Jesus was the incarnate form of the Source.
That makes sense...*sarcastic undertone*
The way I see it you have nothing to lose by believing in something and everything to lose by not.
Do you really believe that a merciful deity would condemn a soul just because they honestly cant understand and therefore dont believe in it?
#45
Posted 11 February 2006 - 10:27 AM
It pisses me off that they all just kind of assume that I celebrate their religious holiday - and it IS a religious holiday - even if you choose not to acknowledge the religious symbolism. When you say 'Christmas' you are acknowledging 'Christ's Mass' or the religious feast and the rituals of Christ’s birth.
The commercialism alone is enough to make me want to vomit. I personally hate Christmas, but not the religious celebration, just the modern mockery thereof. Dec 25th is Saturnalia, and Mean Geimhreigh (the winter solstice) is usually around the 21/22 - which I do celebrate with much feasting, drinking and ritual sex.
And yes, the Christian holy day was changed from July (I think it was) and moved to dec 25 in an attempt to better indoctrinate the heathens.