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11-20-2008, 09:01 AM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Awww, you are ruining my fun, I wanted them to think of the other scripture about doing what is right in your own mind/eyes, etc...
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I think a lot of people do that anyway. Including some Christians, that add to or take away from the Word. In that God didn't say it or command it, but I did. There does seem to be a some that say, I will do it my way, and you follow me.
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11-20-2008, 09:01 AM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Originally Posted by Brother Price
I see a lot of finger pointing and some really sad arguements here. However, Xmas is pagan, always has been and always will be. Why in the world do we need to mix light and darkness?
If I cannot share my love with someone through the year in holiness, why do I need to practice paganism one day a year in order to do so? That is sheer dumbness. Also, why would I want to bring something that has clear pagan origins, and is pagan in practice, slap a 'Christian' label on it, and then proclaim I am still holy? This is ludacris!
I do not need to go bankrupt. I do not need to practice paganism. And, I do not need to know the ways of the heathen. Some of y'all seriously need to find an altar... seriously!
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I bet you keep your friends and family confused.
Do we get Bill gifts this year or not? Is it his "on" or "off" year?
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11-20-2008, 09:01 AM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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I really don't... though we could have used a few more toys.  |
It might not have been a big deal to you, but apparently some others don't share your view. I didn't mind being without a tree too awful much. BUt I do enjoy having one now.
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11-20-2008, 09:05 AM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
Also one can be fully persuaded in either direction. I would rather stick on the side of caution.
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11-20-2008, 09:07 AM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Also one can be fully persuaded in either direction. I would rather stick on the side of caution.
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me too... That's why I celebrate the virgin birth of the savior of the world.
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11-20-2008, 09:09 AM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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It wasn't just not having a tree. I think I could have handled that okay. It was no gifts, no celebration, nothing. One time in particular that sticks out in my mind when I was in 6th or 7th grade, my class at school drew names for exchanging gifts, and I wasn't allowed to participate--but I still had to go to school the day of the party. I was mortified. To this day, I still don't understand why my parents didn't just keep me home that day. It was also a sore spot with other members of our family who did (and do) celebrate, so it made time with them strained, or we wouldn't visit at all until after Christmas was over. My Dad (who I resemble a LOT in character, btw  ) couldn't resist talking about the pagan holidays, sometimes even just teasing other people about it, but inevitably it always caused a problem. 
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I think I sound bitter. LOL!! I'm not. It just wasn't one of the positive parts of my childhood, and I determined that I would make it up to myself when I grew up--and I am!!!! |
I am glad we did everything Christmas except the tree. Of course, if we hadn't my and my husband's families would have thrown a conniption. One year, my family came for Christmas and my Dad went out and bought some white lights and put them on a little fake leafy tree I had. I was upset about that because he didn't ask, he just did it. But, I just let that go. As it was, I had to put up with my sister giving my daughter gifts on Taoism and the like and my parents and mother-in-law giving her Barbies with pants. I never took them from her, I felt it would do more harm than good but I had a very hard time in my mind with all this. She also recieved a number of pants as gifts early on. I did get rid of those back then. Now, I just buy them for her myself.
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11-20-2008, 09:11 AM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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But you're not being consistent, you are being incorrect. Thor's day is secular world, and your pine tree is not secular, but a sacrament that was borrowed from the Catholics from the pagans and adopted by mainstream Churchians.
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My tree is something I bought at Wal-Mart for fun.
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11-20-2008, 09:13 AM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Is anyone arguing that Christmas does not have pagan origins? I believe everyone accepts that, unless I missed something.
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Sure, it has pagan origins. But some of don't think that celebrating it today as Christmas is someting God cares about.
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11-20-2008, 09:14 AM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Also one can be fully persuaded in either direction. I would rather stick on the side of caution.
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The side of caution can be pretty dangerous, amazingly.
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Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
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11-20-2008, 09:25 AM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Originally Posted by Brad Murphy
Some of us are just sick of Pentecostals taking anything that we find even remotely enjoyable in life and making it a sin... that's why I stopped listening to any of it and I do whatever is right in my own mind...
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So you make up your religion as you go along? Yet, dress standards are wrong? But, made up holidays are right, because we get to party, and have fun? So, we don't like the individuals who walk up and say "hey, man, xmas is phoney and has nothing to do with Christ."
You should really dig what's coming out of your own mouth. 
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