Posted on 10/25/2007 11:48:44 AM PDT by lilylangtree
The Postal Service announced the new 2007 Christmas stamp "The Madonna of the Carnation" for Catholics. Also, the USPS came out with the Christmas stamps commemorating the Muslim holiday of EID (Sep 28). Plus, USPS will release stamps recognizing Kwanzaa and Hanukkah (Oct 26). And for those in the "none of the above" category, the Holiday Knits stamps series will be available as of today.
I commend the Postal Service for its political correctness. However, as a Christian that believes in Jesus Christ, where is the Christmas stamp to represent the Christian belief?
Has our country moved so far away from its Christian foundation that we must now ask "where is our representation"?
As a Canadian freeper I can tell you that you are spot on. Given the number of people on this board what amazes me is that there are so few- the law of averages would suggest that there should be a lot more.
LOL, what can I say many evangelicals are ignorant. Many evangelicals don’t even know that the Bible was canonized by the Catholic Church.
I think that since Christmas is the celebration of Christ’s birth that leans them towards an infant Jesus, and the classical artists were really into sticking the baby Jesus all by himself so they included his mother. In all the school Christmas plays I ever saw or was part of Mary spent a lot more time on stage than Jesus, she is a pretty big part of the story after all.
LOL
No, you’re wrong. King James wrote it in 1611. /sarc
I'm just glad the USPS is continuing the tradition of the Madonna and Baby Jesus stamps. I'm always curious to see which painting they'll use each year. You have to get them early, though, because they don't print as many of those as the secular stamps, so they sell out fast.
I didn’t mean that Hanukkah wasn’t celebrated before Christmas became a Big Deal (it used to be a day of fasting and quiet contemplation, before it became the winter celebration of gluttony, excess, avarice and greed).
I only meant that Hanukkah went from a relatively minor celebration of a victory in battle, and evidence of God’s Blessing via too little oil lasting long enough to purify the Temple, to a bigger gift giving deal in response to kids feeling left out.
I’m no theologian, and not a real expert on Holy Writ, but I do try!
You seem to have more and better information at your fingertips. I was unaware of the information on the actual birthday - 15th Tishrei - and knew only that the Crucifixion was tied to Passover.
Do you know of any reference that gives the year these events happened?
I just don’t understand this attitude that you can’t use the Christmas stamps because Mary happens to be on them. She IS the ‘Woman of the Promise’, the one foretold by the Old Testament prophets through whom the Word Incarnate would come into the world. If God thought enough of her to be the one who brought Jesus into the world, why would you think it wrong for stamps celebrating Jesus’s birth to include her?
Yeah, whatever, but WE celebrate it on Dec. 25th, and have done so for many hundreds of years.
Since the codification of Paganism at Nicea in 325.Yup !
He was if He was painted by a European artist.
But Mary is still the mother of Jesus.
>>I commend the Postal Service for its political correctness. However, as a Christian that believes in Jesus Christ, where is the Christmas stamp to represent the Christian belief?
That’s a little harsher than I would have put it - there could be an element of ignorance here instead of trolling.
But what could be a better representation of Christmas than Jesus as a baby with his mother?
Do you know of any reference that gives the year these events happened?
Later Miriam conceived and that date is known as an offset from Elizabeth, Because Yah'shua doubled celebrated each of YHvH's Holy Feast days. The Feast of Tabernacles is appropriate as it has to do with living in Interestingly 9 months back from Tabernacles is Hanukah, where the Light The study has to do with Zacharias who was a priest and was
shalom b'shem Yah'shua
assigned temple duties based upon his tribe. The date he was struck
dumb is known. It is the conception of John the immerser.
hence the date.
temporary dwelling places. There is a hint in John 1:14.
entered the Temple.
You really don't know what you're talking about.
1. Nothing about Mary is arbitrary.
2. The Catholic Church has not declared Mary "co-redemptrix". Some Catholics have argued for this -- not arbitrarily, but because they have a carefully reasoned explanation. The Catholic Church will probably resist this argument, in part because people like you will wholly misunderstand the concept some Catholics are trying to put across.
3. If you believe Jesus is truly God and truly man, the Madonna is an excellent way to put that idea across. If you believe (with St. Paul) that the Church is the Body of Christ, you ought to have some interest in where that Body comes from.
“The Postal Service announced the new 2007 Christmas stamp “The Madonna of the Carnation” for Catholics. Also, the USPS came out with the Christmas stamps commemorating the Muslim holiday of EID (Sep 28). Plus, USPS will release stamps recognizing Kwanzaa and Hanukkah (Oct 26). And for those in the “none of the above” category, the Holiday Knits stamps series will be available as of today.”
Didn’t read all the posts through. These stamps have been issued every year since the holiday program rolled out in 2001. Other than the Madonna stamp, that is.
There’s no “slight” intended, it’s simply the line of stamps the USPS designed and issued.
Oh and as a Christian, I consider the Madonna and Child a Christian representation. I don’t consider it a strictly “Catholic” symbol.
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