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Christmas greetings
#11
RE: Christmas greetings
Merry Christmas GC and everyone else Smile Though I'm an atheist, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas to me without Christianity; I love carols, Christian Christmas cards, and the whole town gathering in the town square for hymns and carols and short Christmas messages and sermons by the local pastors and others. All these things bring back happy nostalgic feelings and memories of Christmases growing up, and are part of a Christmas tradition I wouldn't want any other way Smile
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#12
RE: Christmas greetings
(December 21, 2017 at 1:35 am)Godscreated Wrote: To all the Christians who are members on this forum and those who are just visiting I want to wish you a Christ filled Christmas. We should remember that He gave up His royalty to become a man and pay the price for all mankind. That being His first sacrifice. In giving up His royalty He gave up His powers, that was his second sacrifice. He gave up being in His original forum to live through the rest of eternity as a man, another sacrifice and all this was before as a man He was a minute old. He went from setting on a throne to lying in a manger to suffer all the maladies of a human being, our King gave us the greatest gift that night by giving totally of Himself. The one thing He never gave up was His love for us, for this is what caused Him to do what we would consider "the unthinkable." So let us all remember to give thanks to the One who sacrificed for us even at His being born. May God bless each of you and may you be a blessing to God.

To my atheist friends or at least the ones who will allow me to consider you a friend, I wish you glad tidings and I hope that this time of year brings you closer to your family and friends. We all should set aside our problems and dislikes about others and rejoice in the fact that we share this world together and in the end need one another to get through a life that can be filled with many difficulties. I think we should all share in a moment of joy with the ones we love and even those who we are not so fond of, because whether we believe in God or not this is a time in which traditionally we celebrate in a humble way with our fellow man in the hopes of having a better world.

 To all I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Years!

 GC


Oh Christ, not that kind of xmas! Here is wishing us both a cheerily secular holiday of whatever form floats our boats.
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#13
RE: Christmas greetings
(December 21, 2017 at 8:07 am)emjay Wrote: Merry Christmas GC and everyone else Smile Though I'm an atheist, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas to me without Christianity; I love carols, Christian Christmas cards, and the whole town gathering in the town square for hymns and carols and short Christmas messages and sermons by the local pastors and others. All these things bring back happy nostalgic feelings and memories of Christmases growing up, and are part of a Christmas tradition I wouldn't want any other way Smile

Yeh, for me too! I love the carols and free cakes. I don't have much use for the cards but it still feels nice to get them Big Grin
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#14
RE: Christmas greetings
(December 21, 2017 at 12:01 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote:
(December 21, 2017 at 8:07 am)emjay Wrote: Merry Christmas GC and everyone else Smile Though I'm an atheist, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas to me without Christianity; I love carols, Christian Christmas cards, and the whole town gathering in the town square for hymns and carols and short Christmas messages and sermons by the local pastors and others. All these things bring back happy nostalgic feelings and memories of Christmases growing up, and are part of a Christmas tradition I wouldn't want any other way Smile

Yeh, for me too! I love the carols and free cakes. I don't have much use for the cards but it still feels nice to get them Big Grin

Oh, I didn't know there was free cake Begging Wink

As to cards, I don't actually do them myself very much, giving or receiving, but my family does... sending and receiving a small rainforest's worth every Christmas Big Grin
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#15
RE: Christmas greetings
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#16
RE: Christmas greetings
Happy ChriFSMas, May his light shine upon you GC and show you the way.

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#17
RE: Christmas greetings
Happy Solstice, one and all!
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#18
RE: Christmas greetings
Yep, nice message. Merry Xmas and new year. Lots of things to like about the season, but nothing better than wandering round European Xmas markets drinking gluhwein. I wonder where and when gluhwein began..? Perhaps it was first brewed in a little shed in a small Palestinian town a bunch of years ago...
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#19
RE: Christmas greetings
Hey, I'm on board with whatever gets good food and good company together with me. Weather sucks and neighbor lady wants to drop off some homemade cornbread with a bow on it, I'll still be eating it. Catching up on some local dish on the new neighbors would be fun too.

And she can have a plate of fudge or take a food pantry donation if she wants.
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#20
RE: Christmas greetings
Merry Axial Tilt day!
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