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She CAN take those aspects, but she just needs to think of how they relate to her own meaning of the holiday. I'm fine with that. All of those things ...

^Alright, here we go... The girl from the example isn't even married. She has absolutly no reason to be having sex if she isn't even married! I don't know what ...

The eventual choice of December 25, made perhaps as early as 273, reflects a convergence of Origen's concern about pagan gods and the church's identification of God's son with the ...

Yes, I know guilt and all that jazz. But if she is not prepared to have a child/is not married, she shouldn't be having sex, for crying out loud.

Ok, name some "pagen" aspect of Christmas and I'll give you tyhe Christian symbolism.

Yes, Aedomir, that would be my response. In response to you, she needs to suffer the full consequences to really learn from her mistake. Abortion, while causing huge amounts of ...

*fails to resist urge to scream* GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *gasp* AGAIN, there is symbolism in those things, which I will explain upon request. And we're celeb

My bad :shock:

You know what? Shotgun has given me my backbone back. I agree with him.

What do we do to celebrate the birth of Jesus exactly? What are these "religious aspects" that you tell non-Christians that they can't do? *Resists urge to scream* Jesus is ...

Found something! The eventual choice of December 25, made perhaps as early as 273, reflects a convergence of Origen's concern about pagan gods and the church's identification of God's son ...

There probably is a reason, I just have no clue what it is. But if we're going to celebrate something and have no clue when it happened, we might as ...

Date of Easter: Ah, yes, there are people who don't know that. You see, for some reason, Easter is based of the llunar calader. As in, months change in between ...

First, it doesn't matter if we celebrate it on the wrong day. The Bible doesn't say when he was born, so we just celebrate somewhere near where we think he ...

*sigh* We are celebrating the birth of Jesus.