http://jennysthread.com/the-reason-for-the-season/ Musings about life, God, the universe and everything Thu, 01 Feb 2018 06:21:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://jennysthread.com/the-reason-for-the-season/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Madeleine Calcutt Sun, 02 Dec 2012 01:39:21 +0000 http://jennysthread.com/?p=5#comment-203 There are a lot of ways to view Christmas. I like to celebrate Christ's birth every day and not just one day of the year, so I make it very low key at Christmas time. I take my granddaughters out for dinner some time before Christmas Day, and give them a couple of inexpensive presents, but apart from that I do nothing. There is way too much hype and I believe it is wrong for Christians to be a part of this hype. Also, it upsets me when I see non-Christians going overboard celebrating the birth of Christ when they don't even believe in Him. That is hypocrisy at its worst. How they can justify that, I don't know! I think it is ok to celebrate Christmas but I feel very uncomfortable about the fact that the early Christians turned a pagan festival into one celebrating our Lord. Jesus would abhor this. And as for Father Christmas? People uphold him at Christmas time more than Jesus. I think the old fellow should be scrapped! There are a lot of ways to view Christmas. I like to celebrate Christ’s birth every day and not just one day of the year, so I make it very low key at Christmas time. I take my granddaughters out for dinner some time before Christmas Day, and give them a couple of inexpensive presents, but apart from that I do nothing. There is way too much hype and I believe it is wrong for Christians to be a part of this hype. Also, it upsets me when I see non-Christians going overboard celebrating the birth of Christ when they don’t even believe in Him. That is hypocrisy at its worst. How they can justify that, I don’t know! I think it is ok to celebrate Christmas but I feel very uncomfortable about the fact that the early Christians turned a pagan festival into one celebrating our Lord. Jesus would abhor this. And as for Father Christmas? People uphold him at Christmas time more than Jesus. I think the old fellow should be scrapped!

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