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I am a bit surprised by the story below but then again there have been some recent articles in the press very similar to this. I am not attacking christmas here. It was just interesting to see stories about it in the light below coming out now. The several I have read dealt with most religious groups being against it as a crass commercial venture but they finally gave in after years of it. I don't think that 5 years ago stories like this or comments like it would have been acceptable.
And for the record, my family celebrates the holidays because they are tradition. And I go along with it and pass no judgements one way or another. Even as an atheist, to me christmas is no harm, no foul.
The Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday that the Christmas story of the Three Wise Men was nothing but a 'legend'.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...GGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/12/20/nwise120.xml
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-religiontoday1214dec14,0,2910292.story
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - As Christmas draws near, Pastor John Foster won't be decorating a tree, shopping for last-minute gifts or working on a holiday sermon for his flock. After all, it's been 50 years since Christmas was anything more than a day of the week to him.
A more comprehensive so called study I ran across which I thought might be interesting reading but I think the writer in his ending is covering their behind with this cop-out.
"To all readers, this study is presented with the hope that it will foster a desire to maintain the purity of scriptural worship, in service to the living God. May the Church be liberated from the corrupting influences which destroy the spiritual vitality of her worship; and may a zealous concern for our worship flow from a desire to glorify the triune God. "
http://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualNLs/Xmas_ch2.htm
And for the record, my family celebrates the holidays because they are tradition. And I go along with it and pass no judgements one way or another. Even as an atheist, to me christmas is no harm, no foul.
The Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday that the Christmas story of the Three Wise Men was nothing but a 'legend'.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...GGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/12/20/nwise120.xml
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-religiontoday1214dec14,0,2910292.story
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - As Christmas draws near, Pastor John Foster won't be decorating a tree, shopping for last-minute gifts or working on a holiday sermon for his flock. After all, it's been 50 years since Christmas was anything more than a day of the week to him.
A more comprehensive so called study I ran across which I thought might be interesting reading but I think the writer in his ending is covering their behind with this cop-out.
"To all readers, this study is presented with the hope that it will foster a desire to maintain the purity of scriptural worship, in service to the living God. May the Church be liberated from the corrupting influences which destroy the spiritual vitality of her worship; and may a zealous concern for our worship flow from a desire to glorify the triune God. "
http://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualNLs/Xmas_ch2.htm