Christmas!

[soph]

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Merry Christmas!

mortuus47 has set an interesting poll: The issue of political correctness aside, would you rather hear "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays"?

It's an interesting question. The latest post in jayisgames says:Just a quick update to wish everyone and their loved ones a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, or

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[morti]

Suits atheists to an extent because they don't have a holiday at all. As I've said before though, I'm happy when anyone celebrates Christmas. After all, this is a wonderful time when Jesus was born and I think anyone should be able to celebrate that regardless of religious affiliation. That's a really weird sentence if read by someone who doesn't "get" Christianity. ;)

Besides that, I know that on my birthday I'd prefer people everywhere to be celebrating rather than some people refusing to join in because of either a label they apply to themselves or deciding that I don't exist or don't matter. If my birthday is celebrated by a lot of people, then others celebrate because they're celebrating, happiness spreads, all is good. Then somewhere down the line someone asks why were celebrating, word spreads.

And that's my attitude to Christmas. It's wrong for people to celebrate it and not recognise Jesus, but I think it's more wrong to make a point of not celebrating or having a good time at all, and the possible effect at the end of it is that people start thinking seriously about Jesus because of Christmas. All good.

In fact, thinking about it, I ought to use this holiday a bit more for evangelising to my family. Haven't done much of that yet, it's difficult because I want to have a nice non-threatening time with them but really that's not as important as their salvation.