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Really? All the Christians I know are fully aware of the fact that we're celebrating the birth of our Lord Christ, the second most important even in the hostory of the universe. Seems to be that a Christian woulf have to be uncommonly dense not to know that.
If that's how it is in your church, you might want to rethink your choice of places to worship.
Again, if you're of the opinion that Santa Claus is greater than Jesus, then you're spending too much time with unbelievers, and/or watching teevee.
Careful, this is gonna ruin your argument that The World Loves Christmas.
Yeah, those old pagan sun god worshipers just doted on Elvis and Santa Claus.
Yep, that's why we're at mass on Christmas Eve. No Santa Clauses in evidence. Ditto Lessons & Carols at the beginning of Advent (you may not have heard of Advent, not much play on the idiot box, and no Santy Clauses or imaginary pagan associations for you to inveigh against). I reckon you'd be horsewhipped before you went to church on Christmas Eve. People might think you'd turned into a sun worshiper.
If you're doing stuff that God hates when the rest of the Church is worshiping the birth of our Lord, then by all means stop it.
The Heavenly Host surely did!
And they didn't allow the wearing of the color green because they considered it pagan, and they considered marriage to be strictly a civil contract and not a covenant before God. They had other weird notions too. Hardly people we need to emulate.
No magic in the date, it's simply the date the Church chose for the holiday, nine months after date that the angel told the Blessed Virgin that she would bear the Son of God.
The Heavenly Host celebrated His birth in such a way that it was visible and audible on Earth. Seems like good enough example for us to follow.
Nope.
No really must be going to a jacked up church if that's what Christmas means to y'all.
Really? Whose birth do you reckon we're celebrating?
Baloney. If you don't think the birth of our Lord was important enough to celebrate, then I'm thinking you've got a very strange set of priorities.
None of that for us, though. Warn't all that big a deal to us. Just the Incarnation of God Himself, that's all.
Nah, forget it. There's work to be done, bills to be paid, no end of mundane stuff that takes priority over knocking off a day to join with other believers to celebrate the coming of the Lord of Glory. Beside, a few thousand years ago some ignorant pagan may have worshiped some nonexistent "deity" or the other during December, so we probably shouldn't worship the Lord at all during that month so people don't mistake us for Odinists for devotees of the ancient Estonian Turtle God. I mean, how would they know the difference? <Laugh>
Almost exactly like Christmas, except Saturnalia. No Mass, no worship of Christ, no prayers to God the father, no season of Advent leading up to it. It did have some of the features that pretty much all celebrations have among pretty much everyone, everywhere, through all of hostory: feasting, drinking, the exchange of gifts, and suchlike. People will be people, won't they?
On the winter solstice, ,actually. There was no "December 25th" in those days, different calendar, and the solstice changes over the years. And few if any traditions carried over to the Christian feast observed at about the same time.
Wait, I think the pagan Umbwebwe tribe of lower south east Africa did a sacred line dance to their potato god on that 7 January, so any Christian feast observed on the same day is de facto worshiping The Sacred Tater.
