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CH Spurgeon (if you know who that is) would disagree with you. Wintertime where? Wintertime in medieval pagan Europe not Jerusalem.
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I have no idea what you are talking about and am pretty sure you don't either.
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Christmas is about giving you say, I thought it was about the birth of Christ? I'm sure it is about many things. Being about the birth of Christ is not one of them.
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The birth of Jesus is about God giving his Son. Please try to keep up.
And millions and millions of Christians who do celebrate the Lord's birth at Christmas would disagree with you.
The fact is, if Christmas was not about Christ it would have long since ceased being celebrated in Western culture. Yes, many of its outward trappings have pagan origins. So what? The essence of it now is the birth of Christ, whether you realize it or not. After all, how many other ancient holidays do we celebrate? Easter? Same thing.
What bothers me about you LCMers is you are all about the outward. You gripe about Christmas having artifacts from a long gone pagan past and you don't worry about the very real and much more immediate and damaging corruptions that presently exist in the movement you've given your lives to. You don't even want to know about the corruptions! You're too busy bashing Christmas of all things! As if you are going to change the world if you rant about Christmas. What a waste of time!
That to me is straining at gnats and swallowing camels. It's much easier to throw bombs over the fence than to deal with problems in your own backyard.