MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well it is now time for another report about a popular Holiday. I actually have a lot to say about Christmas but I suspect my young niece and nephew may read this so I am going to leave some of what I know out of this report.
Christmas is actually a compound word for Christ's Mass. Back in the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church started celebrating this holiday by having mass in honor of Christ's birth. In reality, I believe it was just an excuse to have a festival and get drunk but I am not sure about that. When the protestant reformation occurred the areas of Europe and later America that they controlled would outlaw the celebration of Christmas because of its close ties to the Catholic Church. It wasn't until the 1800s that Christians in America at least started to celebrate the holiday despite its origins.
Which brings me to this silly debate on the attack on Christmas. Yes, there is an attack on
Christmas by mostly Atheists. But their reasons for getting rid of the holiday are not the same as the Protestants' reasons. The Protestants were outlawing it because it was a Catholic holiday and their claims about that church were that the Catholics were a cult (for lack of a better term. I don't know what their exact claim was out of the top of my head but that pretty much describes it). During this time wars were fought between these two faction of the same faith. And both the Catholic Church and the Protestants were very territorial in nature and anyone living in these areas had to be of that faith whether they wanted to or not.
The atheists have only one goal and that is to stop having Christianity in the world period. They even have claimed that the reason to celebrate this season is Winter not the birth of the savior. They want to celebrate Snow! instead of a living God. I shake my head every time I hear that because it is just silly. And if you look at what they say is the reason to celebrate the season; and what the wiccans say is the reason for the season; and if you are saved you will have to wonder what's going on here?
Well that wraps up this holiday report. I will be back somewhere around February 14 to talk about Valentine's Day.
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