Here is an excerpt of a post from an exCOG member and her take on Christmas. This is from her blog: It's a Mis-fit. Her post is in response to UCG's Scott Ashley and his asinine 10 points on why he doesn't keep Christmas.
Which brings me to the opposite end of the war on Christmas spectrum. As I mentioned in my last entry, I didn’t grow up keeping Christmas, so seeing the following article this afternoon brought up the memories of hearing these reasons to avoid the season at all cost. I get point #1 on that list. The commercialism of Christmas is ridiculous, but there are billions of Christmas celebrants who don’t go batshit insane over commercialism. Its mostly a USA phenomenon. So that point really doesn’t fly.
The second point tries to hammer home the fact that Christmas wasn’t mentioned in the Bible. Well neither was Thanksgiving, Mother’s day, or Memorial day, all three US holidays. Then they try to make the date of Jesus’ birth an issue. It’s common knowledge that no one knows the date, that’s not the point of honoring the event of his birth. One of their proofs, as if we can call the absolute ridiculousness of it proof, was that shepherds would not have had flocks in the field in December.
There’s this assumption that Judean winters are hellish and too cold for any livestock with heavy wool coats to survive. I just looked up the weather for Tel Aviv. As I am typing this, its 3am there. The temperature is a frigid 54 degrees. Its actually colder in SC.
For those of you who are quite certain that Christmas is the epitome of evil, that those who celebrate the holiday with all its pagan debauchery and frivolous frolicing, and that God is going to make sure that we are punished for our wicked ways, I wish you a happy and joyous Thursday. Let me also assure you that you have nothing to fear from a celebration season, nor are your neighbors, your family members doing so a danger from God whatsoever.
For all of us, whichever you fit on the Christmas spectrum, as well as those of you celebrating the Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, Eid, Kwanzaa, and any celebration I missed, I wish you Happy Holidays and/or a restful rest of the week
I enjoyed reading allegro63's response to UCG's Scott Ashley and his asinine 10 points on why he doesn't keep Christmas.
ReplyDeletePlus, I appreciated her sense of humor.
It's funny how people like Bill O'Reilly have their heads exploding over imaginary things like "the war on Christmas"!
Even funnier is the fact that even though the COG folks usually agree with extremist right-wing bloviators like O'Reilly, it's the COG folks who who wage their limp 'war on Christmas'.
ReplyDeleteWow, the Bible has an answer for everything...imagine that.
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Roman 14:5
"Wow, the Bible has an answer for everything...imagine that."
ReplyDeleteThe bible doesn't have an answer for everything. The most obvious answer you would expect the bible to have that it doesn't is, "What does god expect from you." Hence the vacuum into which people like HWA (and the leaders of 40,000 other christian sects) step, with "the answer" to it.
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"Wow, the Bible has an answer for everything...imagine that."
The bible doesn't have an answer for everything. The most obvious answer you would expect the bible to have that it doesn't is, "What does god expect from you." Hence the vacuum into which people like HWA (and the leaders of 40,000 other christian sects) step, with "the answer" to it.
December 31, 2014 at 3:00 PM
Since you brought it up...Well, I'm sure God doesn't expect someone (like me) to be posting and venting their anger on these sites, but I'm still a little p..... about the way I was treated by the Philadelphia Church of God's ministers and some of the ignorant people there, but maybe God wants this and all the lies and deception to be known and that IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT GOVERNMENT!! notice all caps...I'm yelling!
The humor of the same person who squawks about Christmas and the Sabbath posting Romans 14:5 is too good.
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ReplyDeleteThe humor of the same person who squawks about Christmas and the Sabbath posting Romans 14:5 is too good.
January 1, 2015 at 5:42 AM
That can apply to what ever day someone esteemeth such as Christ's birth and most people do esteemeth the wrong day as Christ's birth...if He wanted you to celebrate His birth He would have told you the day to celebrate it...how's that for squawking!