If you look into it those traditions you are celebrating are actually Pagan traditions. the church changed the name but all details are still pagan doing.
you look into it those traditions you are celebrating are actually Pagan traditions. the church changed the name but all details are still pagan doing.
Changing the name does not make it right, A pine tree would not become a palm tree just because we named it so. God once said that we should not walk wth the other nations (what they are doing that are detestable/dirty in his eyes). These traditions are still dirty in his eyes right?
I believe celebrating these stuff is still pagan, you don’t pick a dirty candy from the gutter and eat it do you?
particularly for yellow_taxi: you should! December 25 is originally Saturnalia, the Roman summer solstice! Jesus would not have been born on a cold night like that.
Easter is a feast for the goddess Ashtare so’s the name….Jesus did not have bunnies and eggs when he rose from the dead, those were fertility symbol offered for the goddess.
This is for the last answerer that bashed the questioner. He admits that Jesus said to keep the Lord’s evening meal in remembrance of him.
The bible also says at 1 Corinthians 10;20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.
So we should all be well aware of where and how the traditions we celebrate came from. I hate to have to explain this , but Michael jackson disassociated himself from the witnesses a long time ago. His mother is one , but not his father. His actions are his own and perhaps the problem has been that he became so famous and the public turned him into a god , just like they did to elvis and other famous celebrities. You can bash any religion for what their members do, but as a whole the witnesses are law abiding , peaceful citizens who try to show a good example, not just for their preaching but for their actions too.
October 28th, 2009 at 1:37 am
good question…
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October 28th, 2009 at 1:51 am
Old habits are hard to break. I suppose it’s because they’ve been ingrained into our religion and into our customs is why we celebrate them.
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October 28th, 2009 at 2:24 am
since those holidayas belong to evrybody
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October 28th, 2009 at 2:56 am
I celebrate my faith and family. I know of the pagan origins. It became mainstream and doesnt really bug me, but I will inform people if they ask, or state a whole bunch of wrong things and I blow my top!
Blessings
David
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October 28th, 2009 at 3:43 am
Because they do what they’re told.
Why was Pagan new years turned into April Fools Day? so Christians could refer to Pagans as fools for celebrating a different new year then everyone else. We wouldn’t dare call chinese people fools for celebrating a different (arbitrary) day, but the Christians did exaclty that as they spread an conquered.
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October 28th, 2009 at 4:10 am
When I celebrate Christmas …I am celebrating the birth of my Savior.
When I celebrate Easter ….I celebrate the Resurrection of my Savior.
I don’t celebrate Halloween.
I will stop celebrating the two above when I feel convicted. As of yet, I have not. I do believe God rejoices when we sing his praises during Christmas as well as other times. To not celebrate these holidays is just religious jargon. I am a Christian but I don’t do man-made religion.
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October 28th, 2009 at 4:23 am
because they are fun and we have celebrated them for centuries. sure, the church appropriated pagan holidays and catholicized them…one: most people don’t know that, and two:why on earth not? people who take religion to seriously are just ridiculous in my opinion. believe in God, try to be a good person, try not to break commandments on a regular basis if at all, and forget the rest. get a divorce, have an abortion, celebrate fun holidays with pagan roots, marry someone of another faith, have a baby out of wedlock…it’s all good as long as you are a decent person and are not purposely hurting anyone and living the best life you can.
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October 28th, 2009 at 5:10 am
All I can say in my defense is—Catholic. One day we may get all this paganism out of the church.
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October 28th, 2009 at 5:39 am
In the early days of the church it was easier to get converts by saying we have a tradition on the same day as that celebration. All you have to do is research on the history of christianity and you will see how and why they did it.
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October 28th, 2009 at 6:02 am
i view it the same as the isrealites worshiping the golden calf. they said the were worshiping the LORD but he still punished the all the same, so i avoid such holidays which cross lines between peganism and Christianity
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October 28th, 2009 at 6:49 am
As a Christian, I do realize this. I understand the history.
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October 28th, 2009 at 6:58 am
If you are christian you do not neccessarily celebrate halloween, Easter and Christmas for thier pagan purposes. To christians Christmas is the birth of Christ, Easter is the day Jesus rose from the dead and halloween is called all souls day or all saints day and that is truly what we celebrate.
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October 28th, 2009 at 7:30 am
People, Christians included, should celebrate their holidays in whatever way they wish. Big dinner with trees and glitter, or quiet prayer and contemplation, it’s all fine with me. I just hate it when they say no-one else should have the holiday because Christians somehow "own" it. That’s when we have to tell them they don’t. They took it without asking. We call that stealing.
But it’s okay, we’ll let them join in in our pagan feast. We’re nice like that.
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