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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
No we are arguing how some people can fight tooth and nail to make a pagan holiday Christian.  |
EB, I can make any day glorify God. It's a matter of perspective. 
When we lived in LA, we never celebrated Mardi Gras for various reasons. Partly because of what it is STILL associated with, rather than it's origins. We don't make a huge deal out of Halloween, although the kids do participate in the church "Trunk or Treat" and dress in non-scary costumes.
So we do draw the line where we deem it necessary. I just don't happen to find it necessary to draw the line at Christmas. It's such a conglomerated holiday anyway, with bits and pieces from different eras and cultures and places, including a large measure of Christian traditions and culture, that I feel you can pretty much take it and make whatever you want of it.
I still can't imagine not celebrating birthdays. We have a family dinner on every birthday, and each child gets their favorite meal (+ cake). We tell them stories about their birth and when they were little, and they LOVE it, even though they've heard the stories lots of times. I can't think of any reason not to carry on that tradition.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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