(March 25, 2017 at 2:02 am)godlessheatheness Wrote: I grew up being told that we celebrated Christmas for the big guys birthday. Easter for the rising from the dead or whatever and Halloween is evil.
My father may not have taken me to church but he did make sure to tell me every lie that I grew up thinking. I never questioned what they did, it was just their thing. I questioned the Christmas thing in my teen years, then Easter, and Now I'm questioning more than ever. I feel more than betrayed honestly, I honestly fear for my loved ones that buy into everything that Christianity is. Because everything I used to think was not a big deal and everything they believe with all of their hearts are lies!
I've been studying the bible (Mostly by listening to other atheists read it and make fun of it. I'm a single mom I have no time to read.) and a lot of the stories are stolen and retold to fit the book, they have stolen ideas, they stole logos and used them to push their fucking agenda. They've even stolen holidays.
Christmas wasn't their thing until after they banned it for not being christian and then they just twisted it in their own ways to try and make it all about them, to the point where now they tell their kids that the true meaning of Christmas is celebrating the birth of Jesus. Which is ridiculous because if they knew how the original Christmas was celebrated it would be considered just as evil as they think Halloween is, which, don't quote me, I'm pretty sure comes from christian roots and has absolutely nothing to do with "the devil's birthday."
I straight up heard somebody say that thanking people was rooted in Christianity, gathering groups of people is a Christian thing, There's so much BS to smell here it's amazing that most of them don't smell it.
My dad likes to say that he fears I will burn in hell but I don't think he realizes I fear for him. I feel like he has been brainwashed and there's no fixing it. Same goes for the rest of his family (somebody pointed out to me that I refer to my dad's family as his family and not mine and that they are still my family but the truth is they have never given me a reason to feel loved. and I feel like family is a more personal thing, if you're going to make me feel like an outcast and then expect me to trust, respect, and love you? uh no thanks.)
Anyway I guess the point of this rant is that I've been learning a lot and I feel totally betrayed and like my family is being betrayed before my eyes and I can't do anything to save them from themselves.
I guess I'm done ranting.
It's real simple
In Christ we are free to keep whatever day we like and mark it as a holy day to commemorate whatever we like. we must simply dedicate to God.
Here's a more detailed explanation from Paul to the Romans:
14:1 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister[a]? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written:
“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”[b]
12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18 because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.
19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.
22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.[c]
