11-06-2009, 02:12 PM
Any mature Christian knows that the actual birth day of Jesus was most likely not December 25. And that there is no biblical mandate to celebrate that birth. It's just something Christians do to honor a certain Someone they think highly of. And rather than carve out a whole new holiday date, they just recycled an obsolete but still-celebrated holiday leftover from an obsolete religion.
Not a whole lot different than retreading "God Save the Queen" into "My Country Tis of Thee."
So, as a Christian I don't get particularly bent about the details of celebrating of an arbitrary, extra-biblical holiday. But I do get a little bent by Christians who use an incomplete understanding of the holiday to embarrass the Christian faith...or non-Christians to ridicule it.
Not a whole lot different than retreading "God Save the Queen" into "My Country Tis of Thee."
So, as a Christian I don't get particularly bent about the details of celebrating of an arbitrary, extra-biblical holiday. But I do get a little bent by Christians who use an incomplete understanding of the holiday to embarrass the Christian faith...or non-Christians to ridicule it.