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Originally Posted by Ohio
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.
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I didn’t realize they did that! Was this a practice in Taiwan or the US too? It’s hypocritical, I just don’t remember seeing that.
Regardless, Christians are celebrating the birth and resurrection of Christ. Whatever it was in cultures centuries ago- it’s not anymore.
I also don’t like the last few sentences of the excerpt that compare celebrating Christmas/Easter with the worship of Mary/paganism-clearly demonizing the first two by sticking them with the latter.
Also, during the Great tribulation- he’s right, people might not celebrate those as much but I’m guessing it won’t be because everyone realizes that the local churches had it right all along and everyone just drops their meeting places/relationships in their churches and come running! This idea is so offensive and arrogant to other believers.