It’s awful what we do to these freethinking atheists. They call the holidays an “onslaught,” imposed on them by Christians.
Watching Laura Ingraham tonight, sitting in for Bill O’Reilly – yippiee, more Laura, please! – and her interview with this Annie Laurie somebody, co-something of this FFRF.org, was entertaining and interesting. Annie kept pushing that this was the winter solstice and “the real reason for the season.” Over and over she said this. And then she said that her kind do not believe in following with blind faith after ancient unprovable celebrations.
Okay. So who celebrated the winter solstice and why? And is this not an ancient celebration? The Druids honored the season and they did so at Stonehenge, several thousand years ago. Lots of ancient civilizations honored and celebrated this day and this season. In fact, when the Christians entered Ireland, they took over this holiday and assimilated it into the Christian holiday in order to more easily win over the hearts and souls of the pagan inhabitants.
There are modern day pagans who consider paganism a religion. And who consider the winter solstice a holiday. They even do drum dances by firelight and exchange gifts. Freethinkers are celebrating the exact same thing.
Aren’t these freethinkers really hypocrites? Aren’t they practicing a kind of religion of their own? Well, I think they are.
The message that there is no God but there is a Santa is another tactic that makes no sense. They insist that they only believe in provable things. Then why is Santa on a billboard? They don’t believe in indoctrinating children (with Christianity) but they are targeting children in this particular billboard!
These people really are a confused bunch.
Add them to your prayers this week. They need them.
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December 23rd, 2009 at 1:32 PM
The winter solstice is the longest night in the northern hemisphere.
The Roman/pagans celebrated this date in Rome,
as a turning point on the seasons.
The early Christians established the Christmas date we celebrate as Christ’s birthday because they wanted to eliminate the effect of the roman holiday on the Christians in the community.
Keep in mind that the Bible says the shepherds tended their flocks by night.
Israel and the region is not growing any grass right now.
The shepherds had their stock in a stockade, and wintering them.
At this time of year, there is no grass in the pastures.
I think Christ was born in the springtime, roughly about the time we celebrate Easter.
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