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Originally Posted by Freedom
Have you ever stopped to consider as to whether or not the so-called "pagan teachings" are the problem that you think that they are? I once lived in fear of anything 'pagan'. Then one day, I realized that it was nothing more than a boogeyman. I didn't even know what pagan was - I wouldn't know it if I saw it.
Another poster here who hasn't posted in a while previous mentioned a book titled Babylon Mystery Religion by Ralph Woodrow, which pulled strongly from Alexander Hislop's The Two Babylons (A book which Lee liked). Woodrow later published a book recanting his previous book. Here is a statement he has on his website. He says it better than I could say it. Any obsession of 'pagan' things is senseless:
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Are they a problem? Let's see what God says:
"Thus saith the LORD, 'Learn not the way of the heathen... 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. They
deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.'" (Jer 10:2-4)
First of all, God does not like His children learning the ways of the heathen and adopting their vain customs. Everybody knows that Christmas and Easter are vain - they only really exist so that the secular world can make money. It is altogether commercial. Businesses rely upon Christmas and Easter to make a large profit. Christ no where asked us to celebrate such things.
Secondly the decorating of trees is clearly prohibited.