Why are Protestants so crazy for Christmas?

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Protestor said:
I cannot stand that christmas is so important to my family and friends. They keep calling me a Jehovah’s witness because I think we should not celebrate it.
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IMHO, the CC gets it 'just right". Not too much emphasis. Not too little.

And Christmas is definitely lower on the hierarchical order than Easter, which is the high point of the Liturgical calendar.

As it should be.
 
PRmerger said:
IMHO, the CC gets it 'just right". Not too much emphasis. Not too little.

And Christmas is definitely lower on the hierarchical order than Easter, which is the high point of the Liturgical calendar.

As it should be.
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I know I probably have gone to far on the other side of the issue. I just have a problem honoring special days.
 
4Squarebaby said:
I think the celebrations surrounding Ressurection Sunday are more internal to the church while Christmas time presents a greater opportunity to evangelize the broader population. In large part because of the global and secular celebrations which run concurrently
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Yeah, that makes sense. There was 2 years in a row where we watched Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ on good Friday, but other than that we only make a big deal out of Resurrection Sunday and the annual Easter Egg hunt and picnic.

Does any church still do Sunrise services? By the time I was born, that seemed to be a dying trend but I always thought it would be a nice way to mark Easter Sunday.
 
i believe the history of this tradition as described by the following –

now-- but how one chooses to respond to any info-
  • really is how well they are led by the Holy Spirit – or the particular religious tradition
Traditions can blind us from the truth and cause us to wander in the myopic fog of man-made religious systems for an entire lifetime. Join Michael on a journey “out of Babylon” and away from its pagan traditions to uncover long lost truths preserved in the Biblical record.

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ltwin said:
Yeah, that makes sense. There was 2 years in a row where we watched Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ on good Friday, but other than that we only make a big deal out of Resurrection Sunday and the annual Easter Egg hunt and picnic.

Does any church still do Sunrise services? By the time I was born, that seemed to be a dying trend but I always thought it would be a nice way to mark Easter Sunday.
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Yes, where I live the majority of churches, including many Evangelical ones, do sunrise services. The Evangelical church I grew up in holds the service outside, facing east, in a cemetery…it sounds weird, I suppose, but it’s pretty awesome.
 
Kliska said:
I’m a moderator of a fairly good sized message board and the subject of Christmas (and Easter) comes up quite a bit. There are some more fundamental protestants, and some protestants gravitating to the Hebrew roots movement, who reject Christmas celebrations and traditions as pagan in origin.
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I wonder if they reject wedding rings and the names of the days of the week as well?
 
Kliska said:
Wedding rings I have indeed heard others rejecting… the days of the week are a little trickier. lol
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And months of the year as well.

If one is to be consistent and reject Christmas for its pagan origins, one needs to come up with a different nomenclature for the days of the week, and months of the year.
 
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