Why Do Christians Celebrate An Essentially Pagan Festival?

[nailit]

Called Christmas?

Even as a young evangelical, I never understood why Christians, of whatever flavour, celebrated what is essentialy a mid-winter festival that has jack to do with Jesus?
Nowhere in the Bible is it commanded to celebrate December 25th as the birth of Jesus.


*ALL* Christmas traditions, from a tree to ivy & miseltoe to xmas pudding etc, ALL
have their roots in pre-christian religion revolving around the seasons of the year and nature worship.

[Atheist]

goodlife 19:13
I don't understand your response.

[goodlife]

Bobbisox1@This is a difficult one to answer. Obviously I don't know the family or the circumstances. If you know the family then you have the advantage. But if they don't speak, that is obviously their choice for some reason.

[Bobbisox1]

And the answer is....religion

[Paigntonian]

Good grief. Could people please give us Christians a break. Don't celebrate Christmas and feel superior.

[Paigntonian]

Odd, is it not, that the Left and, in this case, atheists, expect us to respect their views - quite rightly - but find it impossible to respect the views of Christians. Christmas - the clue's in the name.

[pixie374]

I can't even see where that came from, paigntonian. Asking questions isn't disrespectful.

[Atheist]

Paigntonian; do you think that I have failed to respect Goodlife? Or that pixie has ditto? I trust that you'll respect me enough to reply.

[nailit]

Just to clarify....
I, like a good many other people, enjoy Christmas.
BUT, I recognise it for what it is...a mid winter festival. And despite the name (Christ's Mass) it has nothing to do with Jesus, God or the Bible and neither has any of its 'trimmings'. There are many Bible based organisations that reject Christmas and with good reason if you're a Bible believer (as I once was).
The idea of putting Christ back into Christmas was a Christian saying, back in the day, that I could never get my head around, as Christ was never in Christmas to begin with.

[goodlife]

The fact is, I saw that God will not forever tolerate untruth, atheistic, or religious—and those who promote it. He promises: “The [morally and spiritually] upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it. As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth; and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it.” (Proverbs 2:21, 22)

The result will be something that no human, no human philosophy, and no human institution could ever bring about universal peace and happiness.—Isaiah 11:9.

[pixie374]

//God will not forever tolerate untruth, atheistic, or religious—and those who promote it//

Why did he invent humans then?

[Atheist]

Goodlife; from your few interactions with me on AB , would you think that God will regard me as "one of the wicked"?

[goodlife]

Simple love.

[Bobbisox1]

Athiest, I too respect Goodlife , I disagree with everything the JWs stand for but as an Aber,I respect his input

[pixie374]

//
The result will be something that no human, no human philosophy, and no human institution could ever bring about universal peace and happiness.—Isaiah 11:9.//

God can't achieve this either.

[Atheist]

Bobbi; why do some of you insist on calling me Athiest? Surely that's not corrective text???

[goodlife]

Atheist @ not for me to say only God knows.

[Atheist]

Goodlife; don't you have any opinions at all? If your God told you to condemn me to eternal whatever, would you simply go along with it without a qualm? Could it be thought that that is a bit like 'obeying orders' to excuse cruel behaviour?

[nailit]

//Atheist @ not for me to say only God knows//
Thats a cop-out that I get from my Evangelical friends goodlife.
Why not tell atheist what your Bible says?

[Bobbisox1]

Apologies Athiest , is that right ?

[Bobbisox1]

Noooo...
Atheist ?