tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407507233856990377.post4407136019218294348..comments2023-08-17T00:31:28.700-07:00Comments on Deep Pagan Thoughts: Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, or Blessed Yule-Whatever Floats Your Boat.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407507233856990377.post-47320758241339709372017-10-14T21:46:26.316-07:002017-10-14T21:46:26.316-07:00Thanks I love your love and diversity I actually h...Thanks I love your love and diversity I actually have felt the way you explained all my life thank youAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13871029281611052163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407507233856990377.post-9152677572812685422016-11-05T17:08:46.250-07:002016-11-05T17:08:46.250-07:00Thanks for your post, it was a good read.
(Also, ...Thanks for your post, it was a good read. <br />(Also, I'm a right-ish-wing Christian who still loves metal) Hannah Petersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09544496731258176670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407507233856990377.post-23975104116302760302011-11-28T16:08:18.749-08:002011-11-28T16:08:18.749-08:00the version of that meme I saw frequently on FB wa...the version of that meme I saw frequently on FB was this: "This is what I believe. I am sick and tired of every year when CHRISTMAS comes around, there are people who want to take CHRIST out of CHRISTMAS because it might offend someone. Well, how about all of the CHRISTIANS? What about offending us because you are taking our CHRIST out of CHRISTMAS!?!?... CHRIST IS CHRISTMAS!!! If you aren't celebrating CHRIST then why are you celebrating? CHRISTMAS is about the birth of our SAVIOR! CHRISTMAS is one of a few holidays left that celebrate my CHRIST! Leave my holiday alone!!! And tell everyone MERRY CHRISTMAS, not Happy Holidays! Repost if your not ashamed.....♥ Thank You"<br /><br />here was my response, posted to any of my friends who posted the first thing: as a non-christian, I have never complained about a cross, I have worked more christmases (at horrible jobs) than I care to count. I now work for a company that is both closed on christmas (so I'm not volunteering to go in!) and where I do not feel comfortable asking for my holy days off. SO, let me tell you why I celebrate christmas. It is the one time of the year that most people in my (mostly christian) family can get time off work to come home. We have a big meal, we sing carols, we have a fire, we decorate a christmas tree, we drink eggnog, we welcome the sun and the son and the miracle of the oil and festival of lights (oh yes, four winter holidays across three generations in one house!) My mother cooks a ham, and there's more consternation and ringing of hands about what she's going to feed me and my other vegetarian sister than the fact that we call god by different names. I suspect if more of the world worked that way, it would be a much nicer place to live. So, go ahead and be offended. Me, I'm going to enjoy love and family and companionship and celebrate another successful trip around the sun. OH! and make little old ladies cry! I almost forgot about that. That's my favorite tradition! my family goes to my grandparents' retirement home and spends 4 hours caroling the halls, taking requests, and singing to all the old people who can't be with their families this year, or to their families if they happen to be visiting. They always cry when we sing Silent Night. <br /><br />That said, it isn't the nameless faceless hordes of non-christians that take the christ out of christmas, it's the christians who buy into the inundation of advertisements that the only way to express your love is to by bigger and more expensive plastic crap made in sweat shops, or blood-washed diamonds... every year, the "christmas creep" gets worse. It isn't about christians or christmas, it's about making a profit. don't you think maybe setting out all the cheap plastic crap for sale in mid-october goes a little far? buy! buy! buy! isn't exactly the message of peace and goodwill and love that jesus was spreading, was it? didn't he get really angry about commercialism in the temple and flip over a bunch of tables and chase the merchants out? I'll admit, I'm not rushing over to my bookshelf to double check, but it seems like he was upset because they were turning the sacrificial slaughter of the animals into a commercial business, making money off those who wanted to come and worship. In my imagination, I can hear them... god will hear your prayers louder if you buy a bigger sheep! god prefers cattle! shear your sheep, right over here! we'll knit you a sweater while you're killing your lamb, pick it up on the way out!<br /><br />I may have gotten a little ranty :)<br /><br />~KarinRinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08189922723238631806noreply@blogger.com