If you guys wouldn't mind helping me out I'm doing an extra credit project for a marketing class and I just need to get a quick survey on this question.
Thanks in advance all.
Thanks in advance all.
Neither.
The religion of Christmas is dead, it has become a competition for shoppers.
Pretty sad actually.
i like to spend time with my friends/family and give/receive gifts. I could care less about the religious point of it.
If this offends you or causes you to look down upon me, I understand your intolerance for I have been on both side of the divide. I chose the path I'm on today not for the origanization of religion, but for the message of Christ, if you don't know, there is a difference between the two.
You said it very well Jay. I agree 100%. Despite how a politically correct and commercial world has changed its appearance, Christmas will always be Christmas to those of us who proclaim the message of Christ. I hate religion. I love serving Christ and want nothing more than His live to be manifest through mine.For years I felt an emptyness at the end of Christmas day, I had lost touch with the true meaning of Christmas in my life. I stopped asking for gifts, when family members asked what I wanted for Christmas I said, "nothing." Having children turned this around some, but not entirely. It wasn't until I was baptized at 35 in the Episcopal Church that my feeling about Christmas changed, now I celebrate the day, Jesus is my saviour and his birthday is a glorious day in my life once again.
If this offends you or causes you to look down upon me, I understand your intolerance for I have been on both side of the divide. I chose the path I'm on today not for the organization of religion, but for the message of Christ, if you don't know, there is a difference between the two.
As for the poll, I voted "Both", my personal beliefs do not change the reality of what Christmas has become, it is what it is.
Merry Christmas everyone,
Jay
I celebrate the day, Jesus is my saviour and his birthday is a glorious day in my life once again.
In all honesty I sincerely doubt Jesus was born on December anything. It's clear from the scripture that Jesus was not born in winter. The shepherds who saw the Angels announcing his birth would not have been out in their fields in December. The Palestinian winters are too cold. Our Christmas is just the evolution of Saturnalia.
Before you peg me as an antsiest, I'm a pretty avid believer in Christ. I just don't believe everything I hear.
It's true that Christmas isn't celebrated on the anniversary of Jesus' birth ... that was more likely sometime in the autumn; many Bible scholars think it was around the time of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). It is celebrated in remembrance of his birth, though.In all honesty I sincerely doubt Jesus was born on December anything. It's clear from the scripture that Jesus was not born in winter. The shepherds who saw the Angels announcing his birth would not have been out in their fields in December. The Palestinian winters are too cold.
It's true that Christmas isn't celebrated on the anniversary of Jesus' birth ... that was more likely sometime in the autumn; many Bible scholars think it was around the time of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). It is celebrated in remembrance of his birth, though.