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"Many stores are starting to display "Merry Krissmas" signs.
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Huh? Has anyone seen a Merry Krissmas sign? I haven't.

This article is from Canada? Amazing. Furthermore, it is obvious what the Libs want to do. Holocaust on Christians. Eventually they'll start making Christians wear big crosses so they can be easily identified. Then they will send all Christians to "Christian Areas", formerly known as "concentration camps".

It's okay to say Merry Christmas:

"Merry Christmas. Believe It. Say It. Wear it!"

The origin of Christmas:

Many people falsely believe that the date of Christmas comes from a Roman holiday. There was a Roman holiday on Dec. 25th, celebrating the return of light to the world; Dec. 25th is the first day at which the Romans could discern the lengthening of days following the Winter Solstice. But Christmas actually has an origin which predates the Roman Empire.

After the Babylonian catptivity, The Jewish Temple was re-established by Cyrus, King of Persia. Cyrus was a just emporer, but he was conquered by Alexander the Great. After Alexander's death, his empire was divided among three factions, with the Selucids inheriting Israel. The Selucids tried to form the Jews into idolatry. THey set up a great abomination in the Temple, and defiled it in every way imaginable. The Jews revolted.

As they went to battle, the Jews were promised by a prophet that any faithful Jew would be spared death in the upcoming battle. The Jews triumphed, but many were slain. Those who were killed were found to have had amulets on their person. Their mourning friends, who had come to believe in the resurrection of the dead, wept that their comrades had fallen into sin. Rather than keep the enormous bounty of their victory over the Selucids, they donated to the temple all they had won in atonement for the sins of their comrades.

With the great wealth won in battle, they were able to cleanse the Temple, refurbish it, replace the desecrated altar, and adorn it fully according to the commands given to Moses. On that day, the spirit of God was said to return to the Temple, and that day became known as the Feast of the Dedication.

Jesus proclaimed himself to be the Temple of God. Hence, his birthday was the day that God dwelt in his Temple, and his birthday became linked to the Feast of the Dedication, which occurred on the 25th day of the Jewish month closest to December.

When Jesus died on the cross, the Spirit of God left its Temple; As a sign, the curtains of the Jewish Temple were torn, and the altar cracked. But on Pentecost, it returned to dwell on Earth in His Church. It shall never depart from us again.

Freeper eyespysomething says: "If you don't like that Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, you don't have to celebrate."

I agree. Non-Christians don't have to give or receive gifts; they don't have to buy a tree; they don't have to get together with friends and family; they could volunteer to work Christmas day, for that matter.

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Caesar, Jesus Christ and Christmas? - Nathan Tabor

It used to be that many Americans would deplore the commercialization of the Christmas holidays (or, originally, "holy days"). Not today. Many stores are starting to display "Merry Krissmas" signs.

With so many people focusing most of their attention on buying and selling, and the giving and receiving of gifts, materialism seemed destined to displace the original Christian "reason for the season."

But in recent years, those misfits among us who are most hostile to the things of God have moved from merely ignoring the Biblical basis for our mid-winter holiday celebration to actively opposing its spiritual roots.

We now confront, therefore, not only the aforementioned commercialization of Christmas, but also the secularization and politicization of the sacred holiday as well.

Every winter, all across America, we have another big fight right around Christmas time. That’s when the liberal, atheistic ACLU types always launch their annual campaign to expel God from the public schools and banish Jesus Christ from the public square.

Santa Claus and his flying reindeer may be OK, but the God-sent, Virgin-born Babe in the Manger is clearly unacceptable to these self-proclaimed, "free-thinking" guardians of humanistic heathenism.

It never ceases to amaze me how some of these folks manage to twist the Constitution continually to mean something it plainly doesn’t say. They grossly misinterpret the First Amendment into a pagan prohibition of any public display of religious faith -- rather than a blessed guarantee of the right to freely exercise that faith, both in public and in private.

The very idea of an alleged right to "freedom from religion" is antithetical to everything the Founding Fathers fought for and believed in. Even an unregenerate old Deist like the worldly Benjamin Franklin supported the public exercise of Christianity as being beneficial to the general morality and common good of the populace.

These seeming contradictions in modern life served to set me thinking -- improbable as this may sound -- about the inherent interrelationship between Christmas and...politics, of all things.

That is a very odd combination. There is absolutely no way the two have anything to do with each other. One is about the birth of Jesus Christ, and the other is about human government and public policy.

When you look at the facts, though, you will see something different.

Why were Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem when Jesus was born? They had to pay taxes to Caesar. There were no rooms in the inn because so many people came to pay taxes. This meant that the Lamb of God came into the world in a lowly manger, among the farm animals that were used as sacrificial offerings in the Jewish religion.

Government is about human institutions taking care of the people who live in this world. The legitimate goal of government is to set up an ordered society that is free and safe, where one and all can live and prosper in peace.

God established human government through the Noahic Covenant that protected the sanctity of all human life created in the image of God. God then established through the 10 Commandments the basic moral parameters that have bounded Western Civilization for more than three millennia.

The birth of Jesus Christ, which is what Christmas (or Christ’s Mass) really commemorates, is about our Christ coming from Heaven to Earth to die on the Cross of Calvary. Why? So that redeemed men can live for all eternity with Him.

Isaiah the prophet describes Jesus as our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace..."and the government shall be upon his shoulders."

Human government is about providing physical services for mankind’s temporal needs.

Jesus Christ is about providing spiritual blessings for mankind’s eternal needs.

Christmas today is STILL about remembering God’s unspeakable gift to us through the birth of Jesus. It is also about being generous to others -- a time to give clothing to the poor, a time to share food with a needy neighbor, a time to help out a friend who has fallen on hard times and is struggling to get by.

Most importantly, Christmas should be a time of blessed family fellowship and worship toward God, with prayerful meditation and joyful thanksgiving.

Jesus gave to all of us needy humans the greatest gift of all: Himself.

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ConservativeStLouisGuy