Marianinark,

I don't "celebrate" the man-made holiday known as Christmas. There are two ways to look at this holiday (just as there is two ways to look at the man-made holiday known as Easter...at least Easter in the today sense). You can look at it as religiously or non-religiously. If one wishes to look at the relgious side, then it is up to us to let them know why we don't and really can't look at it that way, but we can look at it as nothing to do with Christ or the birth of Christ and I do just that.

I have done extensive studies on holidays and the COMPLETE origin because I have so many asking me if Christians can recognize things such as birthdays and/or holidays.

As for the government...they have made every holiday for profit. So what the real and bottom line question is this: Is it scriptual to create and/or recognize a so-called religious holiday and be okay in God's sight? And it can be a simple yes or no...but with the answer, we must be ready to prove why or why not.

I will be back later with an article on the subject...

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