RE: Kirk Cameron-Don't drink the koolaid and think Christmas had pagan origins.
November 13, 2014 at 2:48 pm
(November 13, 2014 at 2:45 pm)Lek Wrote: Yeah. All this goes to show that saying Christmas has it's roots in paganism really doesn't mean a thing.It does to some of the stricter fundamentalist sects. JWs do not celebrate Christmas precisely because it has pagan origins and sets Jesus' birthday to an incorrect date (among other objections). I never celebrated it, though as with many things I probably will now that I'm not a Christian. Which tickles me to no end.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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