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I find Christmas and Easter to be a "shell" for the reality. Admittedly they are only visible and outward, but so is the Passover celebration to Israel. The Passover was established in the O.T. as an eternal memorial for all Israel, yet whether or not an Israelite actually believed in his heart was another matter.

Witness Lee's greatest hypocrisy was condemning Western Christian holy days like Christmas and Easter, and then using Chinese New Year to preach the gospel to the Chinese people. Was not CNY also pagan, filled with serpents and dragons? Yet Lee "recovered" it for the gospel.

Is this not what genuine Christians and churches have also done every year with Christmas and Easter? They celebrate Christ, His birth and His Resurrection. They "recover" Christmas and Easter.

Lee did't care that most Chinese celebrated pagan traditions on their CNY day, so why should we care that most Western people celebrate their party traditions? And they wonder why the LC's no longer look like America, but rather Taiwan.