The winter shortest day of the year has just passed, starting the coldest 3 months of the year, and this means that CHRISTMAS is only days away. It used to be that the shortest day of the year and CHRISTMAS coincided, the shortest day of the year has crept forward a few days over the past few centuries. If we were to gaze around long enough, we could witness CHRISTMAS celebrated in (winter) springtime! Come to think of it, a strong % of the world's population already celebrates it as the heat of summer arrives.
Lately, Christmas-keeping Christians have been stress to stand up for Christmas. Atheists, agnostics, and the ACLU-crowd have been to stun with noise for the removal of religion from Christmas celebrations. They want advertisers to market/promotion the season without reference to "Christmas," instead using the Harmless "Holiday" moniker. They want businesses to ditch playing traditional Christmas carols over their in-store audio systems in favor of "winter music".Christian groups/community have had to file lawsuits to force school systems to allow their students to sing "Silent Night"—and not some wintry parody—during winter concerts!
The Nativity—a golden word for "birth"—of Jesus Christ is found in two of the Gospels, Matthew and Luke. In fact, honest, theologians, objective scholars and admit that a winter date is the least likely time. December, as any biblical geographer will attest, is the starting of the rainy season in Palestine. Majority opinion places" Jesus' birth" in the autumn, probably on or near the fall festivals of Trumpets.
No comments:
Post a Comment