I just came across an interesting article in the Jamaica-Gleaner on Christmas. It is entitled "Christ born to die." Thought some of you might like to read it.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20061227/cleisure/cleisure3.html
In Defense of Christmas
by Kenneson 3 Replies latest jw friends
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Mystla
the Editor asks for a piece on Christmas, and he assigns his staff writer to interview Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists and Rastafarians, it is an attack upon Christmas that he will get.
The staff writer should have interviewed Ex-Jw's..they would have gotton a far more rounded out view point and all the facts needed to support both sides of the story!!
Misty
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barry
This artical supprised me because Seventh Day Adventists do celeebrate Christmas and often have a Xmas tree in their churches.
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heathen
That's a very lame defense. Just because "christians" feel they need something to celebrate is not a good argument. I think it can be decerned what time of year jesus was born , the reason the church chose Dec.25 was in order to consolodate pagan ceremonies in with the christian movement. The only ceremony jesus himself ordained was the memorial supper , "keep doing this in rememberance of me" .