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Halleluyah!!

Every year about this time, Fundamentalist Christians slowly pull the nails out of the coffins of wishful thinking and assumption, and the putrid smell of conjecture and bad history is once more allowed to dull our intellectual senses while the enlightenment of modern research is avoided like a cognitive dissonant plague. That sounds a bit harsh, but unfortunately, it’s very true. The idea that Christmas is pagan actually comes from die-hard Protestant fundamentalists in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. In those centuries, many Protestants regarded holidays like Christmas and Easter as “popery” and therefore sought to discredit them by linking them with ancient paganism. The idea that Christmas might be pagan was advanced as early as 1648 in the work Certain Queries Touching the Rise and Observation of Christmas, written by the Puritan Joseph Heming. Later fundamentalist writers really took the idea and ran with it. One particularly influential writer was Alexander Hislop (1807-1865), a minister for the Free Church of Scotland who published a pamphlet in 1853 titled _The Two Babylons._ In this pamphlet, Hislop claimed that Roman Catholicism is really nothing more than re-branded Babylonian paganism and that all the holidays associated with Catholicism are actually ancient Babylonian religious festivals in honor of the heathen gods. Hislop was a zealot and a crank whose ideas had almost no factual basis whatsoever, but his work became extremely influential among Protestant fundamentalists. It is from Hislop that the ludicrous concept of Christmas as the “birthday of Nimrod/Tammuz” derives. Many Christian denominations are quick to site Jeremiah 10: 1-5; however, most people who do so are jumping to unfounded nonsense conclusions - the Biblical account is of a tree cut down and its _trunk_ fashioned into an idol and adorned with gold and silver. The passage refers to the making/carving of a wooden idol from the trunk of a tree and then applying gold/silver leaf to it - a popular technique to adorn wooden objects - think of the funerary objects found in King Tut’s tomb; many were wood with gold leaf applique. The Biblical reference has absolutely nothing to do with an actual tree or Christmas trees in general. Trees were brought into homes _are_ a Germanic custom, but one that originated in the Middle Ages, and were certainly not decorated with gold and silver. With respect to the ‘origin’ star on top of many trees, that’s utter nonsense. Many people associate mistletoe, ivy and holly with the ancient Celts as all three plants were held as sacred in Druidism. Thus, they opine, their inclusion in Christmas is pagan and this is proffered as just one more reason not to celebrate Christmas due to its pagan origins. Again, historical similarity does not equate to historical sameness. The first mention of mistletoe in connection with Christmas goes back to only the 1600’s. The tradition of kissing under the mistletoe comes even later, the end of the 1700’s. Again, no ties to an ancient pagan past. While you're at it, it wouldn't kill you to learn a little real Hebrew instead of that faux Hebrew.

We honor the son, we worship the father.

Well done!

Hi when is the date for the day of atonement?

Yo amo mucho a Israel. Yo me llamo así. Israel salazar. La salvación es por gracia De Dios con el nuevo pacto. Hermano

También los gitanos son de las tribus perdidas Adolfo jizler mató a casi un millón de gitanos. Dios te bendiga

Shalawam Ahch, Yahawah ba ha sham Yahawashi Barak Ahtha. I hope all is well with you. A brother out there in PR wants to come under the order of GMS and is inquiring on how to get in touch with you. When you get this message, hit me back as soon as possible babaqasha so we can liaise and hopefully link the two of you brothers together. Lord Willing, thawadah wa Yahawah ba ha sham Yahawashi Barak Ahtha.

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