The more secular aspects of Christmas take over the Church,
instead of the other way round.
Many churches have Christmas trees, and even sing in worship
to them!
"O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree…."!!
Why is this? Is it because there really IS no genuine Christian content
in the Winter Festivals?
We Christians, who would be very nervous at the idea of letting
our children dance around a Maypole,
who would discourage them from dressing up as witches at Halloween,
who would certainly not attend the Druidical rites of the
winter solstice at Stonehenge -
we are at the same time almost unthinking in our acceptance of
the practises of Christmas
because of the pleasure and fun they bring.
Is this not a hypocritical stand to take?
We, who are generally so careful to avoid pagan practises,
and who pride ourselves in being biblically accurate,
somehow switch off our powers of discernment at Christmastime,
and "anything goes".
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