Most of you who read my blog probably also read Tia's but if you don't please click over and read this one. But first, get your mind ready to think, receive, digest, and probably chew on it awhile. Also, remember this- Just because we've always done something one way doesn't mean it's necessarily the right way of doing things. With that said-
here's the link
http://abandonimage.blogspot.com/2007/12/win-war-on-christmas-by-losing.html
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Too kind, you are! :) But you forgot to add the link! :)
Now, WHERE did it go? I had it on there.
i used it...so it't up and running.
i liked your comments over there too. i didn't realize that christmas wasn't even a national holiday until the mid 1800's...
the christian montessori school here, did a celebration of the light more towards easter. they said it was more historically correct as to when christ was actually born. i never did the research, but found all of it very interesting perspective.
What's even weirder is that Christians didn't start celebrating the birth of Jesus until the 4th century, after Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire. When the church officially started celebrating Christmas, it was controversy right from the start because the date chosen was a pagan holiday, the nonchristians in the empire celebrated got drunk in the streets and it was a time of excess and self-indulgence. Christians have debated to centuries as to even the validity of Christmas and the puritans banned it themselves when they came over to America! So right from Christmas' conception, it was interwoven with the world, commercialized and secularized, it's nothing new. :)
I wonder if it was the whole "we feel left out so let's do an alternative celebration" thing??
(kinda like the harvest festivals at church on Halloween perhaps)
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