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GrahamCracker -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/18/2008 4:49:51 PM)

Traceydolls said:

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Christmas used to be banned in US. I wonder why we went back? Also at the Catholic Site, it list the paganism it is based on.


I am not aware that it was ever banned in the US since 1776. It is true (according to Wikipedia) that it was banned in Boston before 1681. That's almost 100 years before the US became a nation. Certain locale's put pressure on people not to celebrate it. But not the entire US of A, so far as I know.

So far as it being pagan, I don't know what site you are referring to. People say a lot of things. Generally the idea is based on common custom, not actually derivation of custom and practice.

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I'd rather not do it. It is a heathen way, I'm a Christian,

Christmas isn't heathen. There are certainly heathens who celebrate Christmas
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Christ celebrated the Festival of Lights, Hannukkah.


Are you sure?



JimboFletch -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/18/2008 4:53:25 PM)

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ORIGINAL: car2ner

And it is sinful to hang plastic easter eggs on trees in the spring, too. Only thing worse than that are plastic pink flamingos.

Hold on there! I grew up in Florida and there is nothing remotely wrong with plastic pink flamingos. They are far better than the Georgia state bird - the Gnarley Gnat.
[8D]



car2ner -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/19/2008 8:47:23 AM)

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Georgia state bird - the Gnarley Gnat.


<<<snort>>>>
O.K. Got me there. I did see a nifty flamingo outside of a firestation. They had painted it white with black dalmation spots.



Roberta_ -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/19/2008 10:19:31 AM)

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ORIGINAL: car2ner

And it is sinful to hang plastic easter eggs on trees in the spring, too. Only thing worse than that are plastic pink flamingos.


Pink flamingos are a sin. There's no way around that!



car2ner -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/22/2008 6:28:24 AM)

Happy Earth Day... not earth hour... not arbor day.... not the national smoke out day.... not the Take Your Bike to Work day... Earth Day. To celebrate I suggest you pick up a piece of litter (dang, what do these people think? That I'm their mom and should pick up after them? Heck, I don't even like picking up after my offspring)

Anyhow, happy earth day



JimboFletch -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/22/2008 8:11:26 AM)

I suggest that all liberals NOT exhale any CO2 today if they genuinely want to celebrate Earth Day.
[;)]



Roberta_ -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/22/2008 11:54:12 AM)

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ORIGINAL: JimboFletch

I suggest that all liberals NOT exhale any CO2 today if they genuinely want to celebrate Earth Day.
[;)]


LOL!



JordanW -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/24/2008 1:43:25 AM)

I love Christmas.



Memaw. -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/24/2008 1:06:27 PM)

I think the title of the thread is encouraging us to have Christmas all during 2008....y'all agree?[;)]

I don't think the tree will survive though.



LaurainAL -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/24/2008 1:37:16 PM)

Is your tree still up Memaw? My MIL sometimes waits until spring to take hers down. Seriously.



Memaw. -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/24/2008 1:45:24 PM)

LOL
No, I took it down while you could still smell turkey.[:D]



JimboFletch -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/24/2008 1:46:09 PM)

Aluminum foil trees survive all year round - and protect your house against allien mind-control rays!



Memaw. -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/24/2008 1:47:38 PM)

Jimbo,
My brother in law believes that.
We don't go to his house very much..LOL



JimboFletch -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/24/2008 1:49:22 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Memaw.

Jimbo,
My brother in law believes that.
We don't go to his house very much..LOL

[sm=farmersmile.gif]



car2ner -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/24/2008 7:16:33 PM)

Jimbo, your smiley face should be wearing an aluminum hat....[sm=vikingsmile.gif]



Kath -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/24/2008 11:21:14 PM)

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ORIGINAL: JimboFletch

Aluminum foil trees survive all year round - and protect your house against allien mind-control rays!



I was just thinking the same thing! [:D]



car2ner -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/26/2008 9:16:28 AM)

Kwoolie-oh. I just did a google of my handle (good thing to do now and then) and aside from some of my commercial interests, this thread was on the top page! Beeee Vewwry carefulll.



Lapidoth -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/26/2008 10:20:03 AM)

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Christmas used to be banned in US. I wonder why we went back? Also at the Catholic Site, it list the paganism it is based on.


I was just brushing up on some history on these things.

There were no catholics or x-mas until the potato blight in Ayre-Land.
When they immigrated to the US, they brought catholicism with them,
and they brought their druid customs and practices with them.

It was outlawed in the 1600's, I've seen newspaper clippings of it.

Wherever you go to have pure worship, all the heathen things are soon to follow.

Every culture since Nimrod has been assimilated into the catholic church of which
all us nuts have fallen near that tree. lol.

We can't see the abomination of it, because it's been this way all our lives.
If everyone has done it all my life, then it must be okay.

We are just as stiff-necked and rebellious as Israel has been throughout the OT.

It's easier to live in "denial" than to do the hardest thing of all ------- CHANGE!!!!

It's easier to assimilate the 99%, than to worry about the changes that is needed in the 1%.



car2ner -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (4/26/2008 2:17:47 PM)

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We can't see the abomination of it, because it's been this way all our lives.
If everyone has done it all my life, then it must be okay.

We are just as stiff-necked and rebellious as Israel has been throughout the OT.

It's easier to live in "denial" than to do the hardest thing of all ------- CHANGE!!!!

It's easier to assimilate the 99%, than to worry about the changes that is needed in the 1%.


If everyone is doing it, it must be OKAY? Sheesh. People do alot of things I wouldn't do.
Stiff-necked, well I guess if God Himself had said that I shalt not.... but He hasn't.
Easier to live in denial than change... sure.
Not sure what you mean by the 99% quote.



car2ner -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (5/2/2008 5:32:45 AM)

I repent... I am so sorry.... I got busy and forgot to wish y'all a happy May Day. I hope you indulged in making some nice care baskets for folks (at work we are making auction baskets for relay for life). But NOT dancing around the May Pole. sssssssssinful



JimboFletch -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (5/2/2008 8:14:15 AM)

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ORIGINAL: car2ner

I repent... I am so sorry.... I got busy and forgot to wish y'all a happy May Day. I hope you indulged in making some nice care baskets for folks (at work we are making auction baskets for relay for life). But NOT dancing around the May Pole. sssssssssinful

Not a problem on not wishing us a happy day. Due to the price of gas and the tanked economy, we have re-scheduled May Day to Sunday, May 4, between 1:00AM & 2:00AM - dress warmly because no heat will be provided.



car2ner -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (5/2/2008 3:29:14 PM)

tee hee...how about happy only-14-more-days-till-the-next-Narnia-movie day?

Or happy only-28-more-days-till-school-is-out day?

In the mean time T G I F



JimboFletch -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (5/2/2008 3:37:22 PM)

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ORIGINAL: car2ner
Or happy only-28-more-days-till-school-is-out day?

That's happy for whom besides the kiddies free to roam my neighborhood unsupervised while I'm at work???
[&:]



tracydolls -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (5/2/2008 9:30:52 PM)

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So far as it being pagan, I don't know what site you are referring to. People say a lot of things. Generally the idea is based on common custom, not actually derivation of custom and practice.


the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church.

The well-known solar feast, however, of Natalis Invicti, celebrated on 25 December, has a strong claim on the responsibility for our December date. For the history of the solar cult, its position in the Roman Empire, and syncretism with Mithraism( a false god).

Jer 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jer 10:3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jer 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

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Christmas isn't heathen. There are certainly heathens who celebrate Christmas


Christmas itself is heathen. Certain Christians celebrate Christmas.

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Christ celebrated the Festival of Lights, Hannukkah.

Are you sure?


10:22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. Joh 10:23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.

The Feast of Dedication or Hanukkah, is a Jewish holiday also known as the Festival of Lights. It begins tonight (Dec. 4, 2007) at sundown and lasts for eight days.



car2ner -> RE: Christmas, 2008 (5/3/2008 9:04:02 AM)

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Jer 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold;


This was not the modern Christmas tree. And we don't worship the Christmas tree. Whatever they were doing then, that was then and this is now. What this culture seems to worship at Christmas time is materialism (ah the other thread we banter on, Tracydoll..HI). That bothers me way more than putting some decorations on a tree. In fact, now a days, trees come in a box pre-set with lights.... aRGH. That is no idol, just a decoration.



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