Every year, I take some time to express my admiration and respect for Christmas.
Yes, Christmas, folks.
I don't give a rat's a$$ when Jesus was or wasn't born. I don't care how many gift giving orgies the Romans had. I don't care about "pagan" customs derived from religions that are long dead, anyway. And I particularly don't care about hypocritical Jehovah's Witnesses who ignore the occult origins of the Watchtower while piling up millions of pieces of paper loaded with occult symbols (duh..... the Dollar Bill)
I care about Christmas for the same reasons that 'worldly people' have such trouble letting go of the holiday - its strong relation to preserving extended family relationships.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are secular days off for almost everybody - including school kids. They give you the opportunity to visit and eat with all your relatives, otherwise forgotten. You exchange presents and maintain social links. Native Americans knew about 'potlatch' customs and they made sense.
The Witness Alternative? "We can give presents anytime of the year". Yeah, you can but 'the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon.... we'll have a good time then' Know the song? Understand its point? Busy, busy, busy in Witnessland and elsewhere, it just doesn't happen.
My self righteous, hyperloyal Witness relatives get together when someone dies, at a funeral. Think 'worldly people' can do better, perhaps when extended relatives are still alive?
The Witness venom directed at Christmas serves the Watchtower's purpose of breaking family and social bonds so that people can be dominated and manipulated by distant, cold-hearted cult leaders. It's that simple.
Don't be fooled by them or their lack of charitable, kind-hearted intent.
metatron