(August 29, 2016 at 2:37 am)Arkilogue Wrote: I didn't think Christians were supposed to celebrate Christmas...
Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
That's Old Testament. Didn't you know that they don't have to follow that because of the New Covenant?
Unless it's about gay people. Then they have to follow it.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell