I don’t want to ruin the party but . . . what’s the point of Christmas?
Thanks for the nice words, gib. I’d love to finish that thread, I still had a lot I wanted to clarify but it will have to wait until I settle down again. Yeah, poor Sanjay; he posted when we took a break… then never returned. 
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I guess that depends on who you’re asking. If you ask big business, the ‘point’ is to entice people to buy things. If you ask government, the point is to keep the economy buzzing. For traditional Christians the point might be to celebrate the meaning behind the story of Jesus… that is, hope? For most people, the point of Christmas is simply an excuse to get time off work, to eat and drink and to be with families.
I’m not a Christian in that I don’t believe Jesus was who the Church thinks he was and I don’t believe in the childish interpretation of God and the bible but, for me, Christmas still has ‘a point’. For me, Christmas hints at the unfathomable, the most important questions a human can ask: who are we? where did we come from? and what is this all about?
For westerners, Christmas is the original Neo story. It’s about a man who was born into the Matrix and has found his way out. Unfortunately, the story has been contaminated by people who don’t even know they’re in the Matrix and thus move from one level of the Matrix to another level without ever escaping.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 
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Chakra,
Who does the church think Jesus was, and why? Why do you reject their evidence?
Who do YOU think Jesus was, and why? What’s your evidence that has you concluding differently?
Or is it same evidence, different interpretation?
Happy new 31 December! 
i think you should say happy holidays instead. merry christmas excludes people
but happy holidays means all the holy days are happening at once rather than on their scheduled day(s)
still though
…but happy Hanukkah, happy Diwali, happy Eid etc. doesn’t exclude people?
I think we should say happy holidays for every holiday and never acknowledge any other holiday ever again.
lol jk but I may just pop off with happy holidays year round as much as I remember to. and use the exact same reasoning why some don’t say merry Christmas for whatever the holiday actually is. someone should write an article on that so that I don’t have to do the heavy thinking for a whole year of holidays. i’d help make it go viral. Because it would be funny and probably found on Babylon bee.
those are fine
i say that shit on every holiday. memorial day, 4th of july. whatever. all of them.
rebel
Oh those are fine!
How come those are fine?
because of consensus among the morally superior
ROFL
…are the self-appointed morally superior, actually morally superior though?
who else would appoint them? their inferiors? i dont get what you mean.
I thought you didn’t care for morality or sincerity… so only when it suits you and your immediate narrative?
Ok…
fair
Ichthus77 wrote
It has nothing to do with “the church”, it is the Scriptures that one needs to refer to.
So many churches have veered away from the truth, and
Early Christians did not celebrate the birth of Jesus, mainly because no one knows on which date he was actually born.
December 25th, is the Birth day of Mithras, the Sun-God, which is totally Pagan.