War on Christmas: Keep Christ Out of X-Mas, Christ Doesn't Belong in Christmas
Monday November 17, 2008
The complaint about secularists "taking Christ out of Christmas" is a common one today and a rallying cry for Christian Nationalists who promote the War on Christmas. Many religious conservatives say that liberals are trying to take Christianity out of Christmas, but should Christianity even be in Christmas to begin with? There are Christians today who say that it shouldn't. This position used to be much more common and maybe it's a sign of the influence of modern culture that things have changed so much.
Read Article: Keep Christ Out of X-Mas: Christ Doesn't Belong in Christmas, Make Christmas a Chris-tless X-Mas
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Yeah, Austin…here we go…again…
with all the BS regarding Christmas/Xmas/Santa…or…does it all derive from a very long trail of “Sun god” mythological origins; ending with today’s insane wrangling; in our ‘mixed bag’ materialist/religious…delusional…fanaticism?
Here’s one YouTube take by “Acharya S” on the whole matter; which I think is worth a serious look…albeit…again?
“The Reason for the Season…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRcCEZflIP4
Well they are just flat-out lying. It’s the Christians who have taken Christ out of Christmas when they started the hog-wild shopping sprees to spoil their kids rotten and turn it into a worship of Mammon which is a false idol. If you look at the history of Christmas, you will find that it was the MERCHANTS who first started with the idea and ran with it. They found that they could make money with it! It’s those same pious idiots who claim godliness and then act like heathens and turn their backs on the things of GOD. And it was back in those days that their ’slavish’ workers would be starting to get discontented around that time in the season, that they proclaimed a holiday and allowed them so much alcohol to drink and allowed them to celebrate. It’s bogus alright.
What would this holiday be like if the three wise men had just come to worship the baby Jesus rather than bringing gifts? Utterly amazing how one snippet of a verse in the Bible can influence human history.
Even most Christian scholars now admit that the date of the celebration of the Nativity was taken from a Pagan observance. As for where is the Mass in X-Mass, the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox churches do celebrate a “Midnight Mass” late on Christmas Eve. These services usually begin sometime between 10 and 11 p.m. and end after midnight, so they distribute their first Christmas communion of Christmas on Christmas morning. I use to be Episcopalian, and generally went to Midnight Mass. Anyway, it is is a really big deal in these liturgical churches, but all myth and much pagentry.
What is “X-mas”, anyway? I just call it “Yule”.