"jsmith" wrote in message
news:1103081068.f4c58340a6a4fb6c079c5594718575bc@s onicnews...
The secularists have been chipping away at the word Christmas for a number
of years now and are substituting irrelevant (religious ??) concoctions to
diminish the value of the celebration of the birth of Christ. Isn't it
time
we begin boycotting those merchants who in their TV advertising are
exploiting the Christmas tradition yet not acknowledging that this is
truly
the Christmas season. The code word "holiday" season is coming into
increasing use in an effort to minimize the influence the Truths that were
taught by the Prince of Peace.



Christmas isn't even the birthday of Christ and was hijacked early
Christians to compete with far older pagan holidays. (Saturnus) It's the
Christians that have been substituting irrelevant religious concoctions for
perfectly wonderful pagan holidays. According to even your own bible, the
shepperds were tending their flock at the time of the birth of Christ.
This is a SPRING event, not a winter event. Additionally, the bible
clearly states that Herod was alive when Christ was born, and we know that
Herod died in 4 B.C. Given the clues in the Bible, and our current
archeological knowlege, Christ was born something in mid-April or May,
between 6 and 4 B.C.

Class is dismissed.