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Originally posted by AshleyD
reply to post by heliosprime
You know, I used to argue against those who equated Jesus' birthday with December 25th. Now I'm not entirely sure that date is incorrect.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
Once again, you are stating your faith as fact. That is empty.
Originally posted by heliosprime
errr...FAITH fills one to overflowing with HOPE, LOVE, and all the blessings of YHVH........the emptiness you feel is from a lack of faith....
Originally posted by karl 12
Originally posted by heliosprime
errr...FAITH fills one to overflowing with HOPE, LOVE, and all the blessings of YHVH........the emptiness you feel is from a lack of faith....
....Doing so is unfair and detracts from intelligent,meaningful discussion.....its also the sign of a pretty weak argument.
If 'faith' was 'fact' you wouldn't have to have faith in it would you?
karl12, Could it be your 'definition' of faith is short-sighted? see... www.abovetopsecret.com...
As Mr Nietzsche was fond of saying:
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." Friedrich Nietzsche
He was completely on his own. There was, apparently, nobody, or at least hardly anybody who understood him or with whom he could be really friends, except in one or two cases just through the medium of correspondence. And he also had to suffer, more and more, very great physical pain. He wasn't a healthy person
And then in 1889, Nietzsche became insane and he died, still insane, in 1900 at the age of 55. So such was the life, such was the work of Nietzsche.
Originally posted by OldThinker
reply to post by heliosprime
My town's bank was robbed, a few yrs back...people were killed, bad things happened for sure.
Should I not 'go there' and use those services now just because 'bad things' happened there one time in history ?
OT thinks December NOW brings joy to so many in 'the name of Jesus'
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Tunnel vision is a waste of time...
Originally posted by darkelf
Worship denotes adoration and reverence. I think my Christmas decorations are pretty, but I don't worship them. I give them no more reverence than I do any other fragile item in my home.
Most of our Christmas traditions are rooted in pagan practices. I don't dispute that. But what is more important than practices are intentions. I find it difficult to believe that millions of people, whether Christian or not, are bowing down and worshiping their trees.
Jeremiah 10:2-4: "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." (KJV).
Originally posted by heliosprime
Jeremiah 10:2-4: "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." (KJV).
www.religioustolerance.org...
Just because something has been "accepted" for thousands of years does not make it acceptable to God....