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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
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. 
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I am not sure I understand you when you say my presentation of the history of Christmas because I honestly tried to stay as non-biased as possible. What I relayed was fact not an opinion for the most part. The thing with Christmas is that it wasn't the birth of Christ at all. Christ should have nothing to do with a different religion that its practices condemn. Its differnet with rap because rap is not condemned in the bible, but foreign pracitces and worship of other deities are. My point is that Mitria really isn't that far removed, the traditions we do today to celebrate the birth of Christ are closely related to what people who worshiped the sun did. BUt to each their own. I do agree that a lot of the extra stuff is rooted in money, but thats yet another reason for me personally to stop celebrating the un- holy- day. I hope no one takes offense.
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