It’s that time of year again. It’s red flag flag season and I don’t mean a Christmas sale. The Christmas music is blasting out of every radio station, playing at every retail store and restaurant. It is still not easy to hear Christmas music. It reminds me of what used to be my favorite time of year and now it just pains me to hear pop singers singing about Jesus when I doubt they are even believers. Santa songs mixed with Christian Christmas music. So what’s the bug up my rear you may ask?
I researched the history of Christmas back on Thanksgiving of 2005. It floored me, sickened me, disturbed me. How can we as believers observe a holiday that has been mixed with a pagan holiday? The most popular response I get is, “That’s not what it means to me.” That’s great you don’t view it as pagan, but that doesn’t change what it truly is. How does Jesus view Christmas? Does He get warm
Fuzzies watching us every year slap Him back into the manager even though He’s been raised for over two thousand years? If Christmas was truly a valid Christian holy day then the whole world would not be celebrating with us and we’d be persecuted for observing it.
I know everyone gets all excited and sweet for one month. There is definitely a spirit associated with Christmas and I’m not so sure it’s a good one at that. As soon as this season is over the sweetness fades into frustrated people returning gifts they didn’t want, to get what they really wanted.
Choosing to not observe is like stepping outside the Christmas scene snow globe. Being able to observe from the outside is depressing. I know for believers to entertain that Jesus may not be the reason for the season sounds outright blasphemous, but what if Christians have slapped Christian titles to a time of year that is truly pagan, how do you think the pagan’s feel?
If you feel I’ve lost my faith, my marbles then please research Christmas for yourself. It’s not for the faint of heart because once you do you can’t just go back to putting a blind eye to the truth you’ve discovered.
slickcheetah
December 13, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Reblogged this on slickcheetah and commented:
Written by a good friend of ours. I totally agree.
Lisa Day
January 25, 2013 at 9:38 AM
I love it! So few people will even research where the pagan practice of Christ Mass came from. I too am sickened by this holiday or where it came from holy day. It is no more holy than Easter, or Halloween, etc. It is hard being a Christian when you have insight to what is really going on in the world. When you step back and see it from another perspective you get a totally different picture. I attended a church not too long ago and the preacher said, “I have a woman coming to church here last year. Would you believe she tried to show me in Jeremiah that you aren’t to bring a tree into the house and decorate it with silver and gold!” I was thinking, well that’s what the bible says. Then the preacher went on to say, “I told her, Jesus wasn’t even born back then. It no longer applies.” Well that was the last straw for us to attend that church. This tactic taken by Satan to use partial truth, which he did and always does of using Christ in a manger as an infant is forever in everyones head. They think of Jesus Christ as an eternal baby without power. On top of that the bible clearly tells us in only once spot, “do this in remembrance of me”. That is the Lord’s Supper where we have to remember why he was brought here in the first place. Where we think about any unconfessed sin, about his torture for us, his dying for us. This is what we are to do for Jesus Christ in remembrance and nothing else. I am so glad that the season passes. If you look at the holiday as a whole the world is depressed, over spends, is covetous, greedy, unthankful, etc
Even today’s mainstream churches, Baptist included put up Christmas trees. What a sinful world we live in. Glad to see that there are still Christians out there that check things out.