Sorry but that guy was an ass! To take something from someone else's child that makes them smile is selfish.
well if he doesn't believe in santa then what the hell is he going there. a lot of child molesters out this time for the year.
Sorry but that guy was an ass! To take something from someone else's child that makes them smile is selfish.
Sad this man has His priorities all messed up Santa and Jesus can and should all Coexist in the spirit of giving and caring. After all the giving Jesus did saved us all and what a gift.
I always taught my kids that there was no santa, it was just a make believe story, a fair tale. Jesus is the reason we celebrate Christmas.
But I also taught them to be respectful to others, and not go telling kids at school that santa wasn't real.
But I guess some folks just can't be nice and respectful to other people.
You making this thread is the same as me telling Suburbazine he doesn't need a plate carrier. Be a Libertarian and let the guy do what he wants, right?
Someone should go to his church and holla to everybody that Jesus is not real...lol
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Someone should go to his church and holla to everybody that Jesus is not real...lol
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You wish, anyways.
What a jackass. Let them be children while they ARE children.
I'm of the opinion that Jesus Himself would NOT approve, because it only serves at this time to hurt these kids.
Christmas doesn't celebrate Jesus birthday like you think it does.
. Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period, Roman courts were closed, and Roman law dictated that no one could be punished for damaging property or injuring people during the weeklong celebration. The festival began when Roman authorities chose *an enemy of the Roman people* to represent the *Lord of Misrule.* Each Roman community selected a victim whom they forced to indulge in food and other physical pleasures throughout the week. At the festival’s conclusion, December 25th, Roman authorities believed they were destroying the forces of darkness by brutally murdering this innocent man or woman.
B. The ancient Greek writer poet and historian Lucian (in his dialogue entitled Saturnalia) describes the festival’s observance in his time. In addition to human sacrifice, he mentions these customs: widespread intoxication; going from house to house while singing naked; rape and other sexual license; and consuming human-shaped biscuits (still produced in some English and most German bakeries during the Christmas season).
C. In the 4th century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians.[2]
D. The problem was that there was nothing intrinsically Christian about Saturnalia. To remedy this, these Christian leaders named Saturnalia’s concluding day, December 25th, to be Jesus’ birthday.
E. Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of Saturnalia. As Stephen Nissenbaum, professor history at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, writes, *In return for ensuring massive observance of the anniversary of the Savior’s birth by assigning it to this resonant date, the Church for its part tacitly agreed to allow the holiday to be celebrated more or less the way it had always been.* The earliest Christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets (a precursor of modern caroling), etc.
And over the years many religious followers of some form of Christian based religions, who were not true Christians, have take this season to celebrate in ways that are not conducive to a Christian life style.
But Jesus is still the reason we celebrate Christmas at my house.
. At the end of the day Im not sure what that does for you. ::shrug::
At a minimum it allows for the continued opportunity to proselytize his Christian Faith (during this time of year). Thereby effectively using a pagan holiday to further the Christian Faith.
What other un-Christian things are we allowed to do/use to promote Christianity?
I'm not sure substituting a Christian holiday in the place of a pagan one is un-Christian.
Its not that simple. All the symbology that we accept and love about Christmas is a direct picture and representation of pagan gods, worship of those gods, and sacrifices (sometimes human) to those gods.
I grew up Christian, I celebrate Christmas, so don't feel like Im busting your balls for the sake of busting, Im generally interested how other people process it. Do you just ignore its origins or don't care?
A bit of both I suppose. I've looked into some of the origins a long time ago which some others mentioned here, and never really cared I guess...I instead focused on how we (my family) did things now.