Posted on 10/29/2015 8:50:57 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Love it!
If you said Happy Chanukah to me, I’d wish it right back to you.
Yep.
Thank you.
Who’s the guy who made videos several years in a row, where he would go through his junk mail, tossing all the items that said “holiday” or “holidays” in the trash. “Merry Tossmas!”
But back then “Happy Holidays” hadn’t displaced “Merry Christmas.”
In the Bing Crosby/Fred Astaire movie “Holiday Inn,” (1945) there were songs for many holidays—like Lincoln’s Birthday, Thanksgiving, Easter—and “White Christmas.” At the end of the film was the song “Happy Holidays.” In 1954, “Holiday Inn” was remade as “White Christmas.”
I hate it when I hear some one call someone a fake Christian. how often you go to church is meaningless on whether you are a Christian. I feel I am a Christian and my church going happens in spurts. some times two or three months go by and I am not there. some months I go every Sunday for a couple of months. as far as I am concerned being a Christian is all about listening to the words of Christ in the gospels and trying to internalize them. being a Christian is about excepting your sinful nature and seeking not to indulge it. being a Christian is about loving those that might not love you. if trump claims he is a Christin he is one. the thing to remember is that just because some one is a Christian does not mean they are good at it, for most of us myself included we fall way short of the ideals Christ calls us to embrace.
And in every school in the country the halls and classrooms were reverberating with the sound of children singing the great Christian Christmas songs!
Every school had Christmas plays depicting some aspect of the true meaning of the day.
Yes, Santa Claus was there, but the birth of Christ was front and center.
Now a child faces disciplinary action for praying silently of their own accord.
I Want My Country Back!
me too. used to take umbrage when they greeted me with merry Christmas, but I outgrew that years ago, and I say merry Cristmas back at them. A bunch of us from our shul go with Christians from several of the churches and help serve
Christmas dinner for homeless people. One year I was working serving and the lady working beside me looked
familiar. I learned that she was our mayor and helps every year.
If you look carefully, you can clearly see that garbage characters in posts are clearly caused by copy-pasting content from a site that is not correctly parsed by the posting engine here. Its not a recent phenomenon. Its been like that always. You’ll often see the same thing in email at work if your mail client isn’t parsing messages correctly.
I’m posting the first two paragraphs from the article as copied from the source web site here. I expect it to look the same as in the post above.
With the holiday season just around the corner, there will undoubtedly be more liberal attacks against Christians, and more retailers saying “Happy Holidays†instead of “Merry Christmas.†The sacredness of Christmas will be further assaulted, but one political candidate, in particular, won’t give in to the left’s anti-Christmas campaign.
As it got closer to Christmas the big Woodward and Lothrop department store in Washington DC would fill their showroom windows with Christmas scenes. It was like magic. As good as something that Disney would have cooked up.
A curiosity question..
What is your criteria for this statement, and by what means are you enabled to possess this knowledge?
I believe your sarcasm meter is in need of repair.
;)
Dunno..
I just gave it a whack and it seems fine..
Chanukah gets a cameo mention in the New Testament as “the festival of lights.”
Christian minded people get the connection. They also know that the disagreement between modern religious Judaism and Christianity is not poised to go away any time soon. The full Jesus Christ view of Hebrew soteriology is something that can’t be philosophically done halfway. It’s either a no or a yes, and if it’s a yes then this turns a boatload of religion on its ear. Christians know this as the scandal of Christ.
POSSIBLY, if he is, one who has not manifested a degree of outward purity sufficient to convince skeptical onlookers yet.
Keep in mind though that this is an age marked by a lot of Christian spiritual malaise. If the folks suffering from cancer tell the folks suffering from Ebola that they are dead men, maybe some lessons about hypocrisy are in order to be learned, and only time can teach them.
His expressed wish to make America great “MIGHT” be a manifestation of a yet feebly expressed underlying faith. In cases like this, we can truly say only time will tell.
Irony, chum, irony (if you had followed the Doughboy you’d know)
I’ve seen this from time to time. This might reflect difference in sources, or difference in browsers, or difference in FR software, or some combination of it. Until someone pays Jim Rob enough to get software that will auto convert the more bizarre looking encodings, we’ll have to grin and bear and say something like “Merry Christmas†.
*** Happy Kwanza is cool though.***
No, Festivus is cool...what with the Festivus Pole, and the traditional Airing of the Grievances.
All this pageantry was, whether the participants knew it or not, an attempt to recreate the sense of wonder that the arrival of the genuine Jesus would inspire among those who understood what He brought.
If carried on to that realization, it served its purpose admirably, otherwise it just faded into jadedness, reduced to meaningless trivia, bereft of its wonder forever, only able to be understood vicariously by watching children’s reaction to it.
I passionately believe that adults can have a good (not senile) second childhood if they understand Jesus to the heart. Everything becomes imbued with wonder once more, the innocence of view again restored, not ignorant of evil by any means, but filled with hopeful faith that it can be surmounted now.
I unabashedly say for that reason: Merry Christmas everybody. Presents under the tree were far too little. God placed His present upon the tree.
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