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Originally posted by NewBee
Its not just the fact that Christmas has been commercialized, although thats part of it. Most of these Christmas traditions, ie the gift exchange, the greenery, and such have roots in other that we Christians consider false. When you go back to the origins of things you realized that a lot of things we do as traditions are based on a lie. Christmas started off as the worship of the sungod Mithria sp? long before Christ was born. I am not trying to ruin it for anyone but it was brought up so. I dont know. Its hard for people to let go of things that they have been doing their entire lives. But for me, I look at Christmas as having pagan roots because if you read up on it you will discover that we celebrate Christmas in a way that made it convient for missionaries to spread Christianity to people but still let them keep their own form of worship. I am sorry if I offended anyone.
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Your presentation as to the history of Christmas is interesting, albeit it is no different than gospel artist who use traditionally "secular music/beats" to spread the message of God's love. For example, rap was not created in order to preach about Christ. Now, rap music is used to do that. Given the origins of rap (or you may insert any form of secular music here), is the message of salvation any different, even though the means of which it is being delivered has non-christian roots?
To take it a step further, many of the everyday things that we do today (i.e. wearing of make-up, adorning of our bodies with jewelry, etc.) have stemmed from pagan beginnings, but over the centuries their meaning have evolved into what they are in today's society.
Even if the orgins of Christmas were pagan, in today's world for me and my family, we celebrate the birth of Christ, not Mithria (sp). There are things to go on today that have removed Mithria FAR from the picture.
As I posted earlier, the outrageous frenzy of Christmas comes from BIG BUSINESS who only cares about MONEY!! Shoot, I am sure if they figured out how to make money off of Mithria Day,
you would get a circular advertising the sale this sunday with your paper.
