I just saw this video and wanted to post it and some comments.
This Christmas is special to me. I feel cleansed and renewed. Not because of religion but for my release from one, Christianity.
I had been a Christian for over 30 years. I was even a Sunday school teacher for a Church and another Ministry. I can remember my life before becoming a Christian and how magical Christmas was.
Christmas was a time of family, celebration, seeing people you didn’t see all year, music, food, and more. Oh, I remember Silent Night and the nativity too. It all blended into one great holiday. There was no war on Christmas and there wasn’t this time to proselytize the masses. It was just nice.
This year when faced with Christian attack on logic and reason I think I finally had too much. I think it was the attack on evolution that broke the straw. Bashing science and evolution only to purport that a snake talked in a place called Eden and some big guy spit into the dirt to make man out of the mud just didn’t cut it. I had to find out more about this religion I believed for so long just because people told me to.
I found out that Christians and people in other religious lie. Well, maybe lie is too strong a word for some of them. They are deceived. Take Christmas for example. Jesus wasn’t really born on Christmas Day and many Christians already know that. But they still promote Jesus as being born on that day anyway. Jesus didn’t die at Ester either.
All this started me on a quest to see where the Bible and these teachings really came from. Rather than tell you here and turn this into another religious argument from either side I will just encourage you o look deeper into the roots of your own religious faith and challenge your beliefs.
For me this Christmas now reminds me of when I was a child. The magic, wonder and awe. Santa Claus - that someone would give you gifts that didn't even know you set me up for a wonderful outlook on life and a heart of giving to others.
I hope I have passed that on to others through the years as well.
Yes, Christmas is special to me this year…
White Wine in the Sun
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