Billy the Great Khan
Uwaa OmO
I don't want no warm stinkin Christmas glow.
I just want an AR15 to keep warm with.
Should have bought one early, they're all back ordered for months now.
I don't want no warm stinkin Christmas glow.
I just want an AR15 to keep warm with.
Pagan Roots? 5 Surprising Facts About Christmas
1. Early Christians had a soft spot for pagans
2. We all want that warm Christmas glow
3. The Church was slow to embrace Christmas
4. The Puritans hated the holiday
5. Gifts are a new (and surprisingly controversial) tradition
http://news.yahoo.com/pagan-roots-5-surprising-facts-christmas-145921591.html
As a practicing Christian this information doesn't offend me. This is a happy time if year which is probably why libtards are so miserable. They just can't stand seeing others having a good time
you are the shittiest christian walking.
You just turned your religion into a poltical club to bludgeon people who dont hold your same religion with.
You and people like you are why I as a child abondoned the religion
not with any help from evil christians like you full to the brim with HATE of anyone who doesnt agree with them on EVERYTHING.
you repersent your religion by being a hate filled gun toting asshole.
History?
I am not sure if he had a point, but what he posted is factual.
More evidence that god has been created by the ignorant. This nasty piece of shit believes in god.
Except he forgot to post that Christianity is Mithra.
He forgot to post that Christianity is an invented religion taken from many others.
He forgot that Jesus was not born on December 25th .. which was the pagan celebration of the solstice .. who also used evergreen trees.
There is a lot of shit about Christmas and Christianity that he left out.
Surprise, surprise
I am not the one who uttered the words "I hate you" to someone on this board. You did that. Me thinks you project too much. Look, here is a tip sweetie. While you are sitting alone in your chair surrounded by your cats, look out your window and look at all of the wonders God has bestowed upon us. Then fall to bended knee and ask for forgiveness. Ours is a loving and forgiving God. I will pray for you tonight at Church.
i simply posted an article from yahoo, not a college thesis or the numerous other theories out there. i never claimed once it was exhaustive. in fact, neither does the article, it simply says - five facts. don't like it, post more, by all means.
i forgot nothing.
And what do you think associating 'pagans' or 'paganism' with Christians implies ?
pagan - a person who does not acknowledge god...its a slur against Christians....
gentile, heathen, infidel.........the same slurs Muslims use against nonbelievers of Islam
Yurt just wants to beat around the bush, mincing words.....practicing his trolling traits.....
Hes got something to say, hes just doesn't have the balls to say it .... or he doesn't know what hes implying...either/or
it is true the secular celebration that most Americans participate in has nothing to do with the Christian religion.......but then you AND the article made the mistake of thinking that is what Christians are celebrating on the 25th......that is why I was correcting you......nope. did you read the OP? you should study up on the history of christmas. it did not start out as a christian holiday and had nothing to do with the birth of jesus.
I never expected that you actually knew.
I did and I added the truth you left out.
You can believe whatever you choose to.
This thread is rather pointless. It is arguing/debating/discussing the beginnings of a 'belief'.
There was, as far as I can tell, no beginning. Man has always sought answers to the unanswerable and has always filled the gaps in his knowledge with tales of snakes and turtles and holy men and aliens and gods and goodness knows what else.
That is not bad nor is it good. It is recognising the ignorance of people. That's it.
There can be no cogent discussion about the non existent, that concept alone makes no sense. Now if man's situation is eased by such beliefs, who am I to chastise him. Some people hear voices, some see shadows and believe them to be spirits/ghosts/whatever. We cannot say these people are insane, but they most certainly are unfortunate for good fortune comes by way of knowledge and knowledge comes from education and some people do not have the opportunity for a good education.
BUT, taking all that into account, it is very, very wrong for the strong to persuade the weak and to encourage them to evangelise the nonsense of imaginary beings. It is wrong, very very wrong for parents to indoctrinate these silly stories into their children before those children have the experience to accept or reject anything.
In most non-Islam countries (and if not most then a substantial number) the idea of super human or super beings who affect the lives of people has gone the way of the steam engine, which could only continue while someone stoked its fire.
America, at least certain parts of America, is still in the age of steam.
it is true the secular celebration that most Americans participate in has nothing to do with the Christian religion.......but then you AND the article made the mistake of thinking that is what Christians are celebrating on the 25th......that is why I was correcting you......
so christians don't think it is about celebrating the birth of christ? really? what are they celebrating?
dude.....the birth of Christ is NOT what was borrowed from the pagans......Christmas trees, Yule logs, Santa Claus and presents were.......is my point beginning to shine through the fog in your brain yet?........